3 Ways to Resize Your Slides in PowerPoint

3 Ways to Resize Your Slides in PowerPoint

Per­haps one of the big­ger pains in Pow­er­Point is chang­ing your slide size from 4:3 to 16:9 or vice versa. Let’s go through the pros and cons of each method. The Fast Way The fastest way to change the slide ratio is to go to the design tab and click­ing on...
Using Long Screenshots in Presentations

Using Long Screenshots in Presentations

The Prob­lem You want to show the entire length of a web page in your pre­sen­ta­tion. You don’t want to rely on the spotty inter­net con­nec­tion, so you don’t link to the live site or embed the web­page into your slide. How­ever the full screen­shot is entirely too...
Making clean proofs of slides with complex animations

Making clean proofs of slides with complex animations

There’s a workaround for that. Note to reader: There’s ALWAYS a workaround. If you’re like me, you love to enhance your story with appro­pri­ate ani­ma­tion within Pow­er­Point. Both sim­ple and com­plex ani­ma­tions can bring the infor­ma­tion pre­sented to life...
The Dot Zip Trick

The Dot Zip Trick

How do I pull the images out of this presentation? Have you ever wished you had the native image, video, or audio files out of a pre­sen­ta­tion? There is an incred­i­bly fast way to do it. Select the pre­sen­ta­tion file that you want, right-click, and choose...
On-screen, in-print, and speaker prompts in one file.

On-screen, in-print, and speaker prompts in one file.

In this quick tip, you’ll learn how to make your pre­sen­ta­tion include the fol­low­ing in one Pow­er­Point file: On screen pre­sen­ter sup­port slides Talk­ing points for the speaker to see while on stage Printed handout On screen slides This one is pretty...
No paragraph rule styles in PowerPoint? No problem!

No paragraph rule styles in PowerPoint? No problem!

Who wishes that there was an option for para­graph rules in PowerPoint? Yeah, me too. While I don’t have an option that works all of the time for you, I do have a few hacks that will get you what you want. I recently had an ask to recre­ate a case study...