Imagine you worked for a company that had re-branded, including redesigned corporate templates. Maybe this included a PowerPoint template that ignored every bit of advice you’ve read recently about better PowerPoint design. It might use overwhelming bright colours and a huge logo on every slide overpowering a tiny area
Some great advice, applicable to any presentation, except I use MindManager rather than OneNote for drafts – mainly because I don’t have OneNote!. Office Rocker! : Death by PowerPoint - Giving better presentations In my job as the product manager for the 2007 Microsoft Office system I have had to do
10 20 30!
I’ve been working on a PowerPoint presentation recently and and found the twin monitor set-up we run for CAD a huge help. Being able to run the the application on one screen, editing content/animation/timing, while having the slide-show running continuously on the other to check the results
Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points, shares awesome PowerPoint advice in this on-line seminar. Watch the video then buy the book! beyond bullets: Seminar recording now online If you'd like to take a look at the online recording of my May 10 web seminar "Transform Your
Office
10 20 30!The best advice is often the simplest; * Remember three numbers * Apply what they represent * You’ll make better PowerPoint Presentations. Guy Kawasaki tells you how… The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint - Guy Kawasaki (It’s just one of his Top 10 Posts) The 10/20/
Rick Altman is a Corel & PowerPoint guru. In his February newsletter he shares a tip to achieve animated photos that are easy to change, swap out the image, without losing all the animation effect work. Don’t animate the photo, animate a shape with a photo fill! For details
AutoCAD
There are new versions of the freebie DWF Viewer and DWF Writer applications. Many of the new viewer features are aimed at exploring 3D DWF models although improvements to operation, integration, and 2D DWF viewing haven’t been forgotten. I’ll start with the Viewer and it’s new 3D
Cool Software
I found this neat free PowerPoint utility after seeing someone with the wonderful task of inserting and re-sizing lots of digital photos into a PowerPoint presentation doing it manually. Older versions of PowerPoint (up to 2000) have no way to do this and while later versions (XP onwards) can import
