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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 slide size.…

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 long to…

Animated Slide Backgrounds

Animated Slide Backgrounds

It can be agreed upon that video can be one of the most impact­ful ele­ments used in arti­cles, social media posts, or pre­sen­ta­tions. We can also agree that putting video into a pre­sen­ta­tion expo­nen­tially increases the prob­a­bil­ity of some­thing going wrong while…

Editable Icons and Such

Editable Icons and Such

As Pow­er­Point evolves, so do the meth­ods of bring­ing in editable vec­tor files. If you’re lucky enough to have the most recent ver­sion of Pow­er­Point, you have the option of going to the Insert tab and choos­ing Icons. For those of you who are stuck in, say, PowerPoint…

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 and…

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 Rename. Add the…

Focusing In On Data

Focusing In On Data

When telling a story with data, a pre­sen­ter will have a few sets of data to show the audi­ence and then only speak about a par­tic­u­lar series or data point. Instead of just show­ing one chart on screen, let’s use the “focus chart” tech­nique to zero in on what the…

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 self-explanatory.…

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 doc­u­ment in…

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Stephy does amaz­ing work, and always with a smile on her face. If only I had ten of her … I could con­quer the world!
Echo Swin­ford

Pres­i­dent, Pre­sen­ta­tion Guild

Stephy is a gem. Incred­i­bly respon­sive and trans­par­ent with the per­fect mix of guid­ance, advice and just make it hap­pen. She is just as excited about your project as you are which means she is not just tak­ing orders or exe­cut­ing, but gen­uinely work­ing with you to pro­duce the best result.
Nolan Haims

Prin­ci­pal, Nolan Haims Creative

I was dread­ing updat­ing our com­pany web­site. What I thought was going to be a painful process was a breeze because of Stephanie’s expe­ri­ence and pro­fes­sion­al­ism. With mul­ti­ple fit­ness loca­tions, it has always been a past chal­lenge to cre­ate a web­site that is both user friendly for the client and the staff. Stephanie cre­ated both with ease. She updated the site with top-notch secu­rity set­tings, made it mobile friendly and we were amazed at how easy it was for even our most tech­no­log­i­cally chal­lenged staff mem­ber to make updates to the site.
Anita Ammon

Owner, Xpose Fit­ness

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