06th May 2020
How to update PowerPoint preview thumbnail icons
You’re about to learn everything you ever needed to know about how PowerPoint preview thumbnail icons work, how to generate them, and how to get rid of them.
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Jamie Garroch
Senior technical consultant
Describe what you do at BrightCarbon
I help presentation designers be more productive in PowerPoint through the design of add-ins, delivery of training, and speaking at events.
Kids
Two teenagers for my sins, Connor and Kaitlyn. All three of us supported by my incredible wife, Becky. She’s my rock.
Pets
Dougal the Labradoodle, Lol and Dan the cats.
Drinks
I’m Scottish, so a really good single cask single malt, sipped slowly next to an open log fire. Followed by lots of coffee the next day.
Degrees
Centigrade or Fahrenheit? As a Brit living in the US, I’m very confused!
B. Eng. Communications Engineering from Plymouth.
3 words that describe me
Fancy dress costumes.
Couldn't do my job without
Passion, PowerPoint, perseverance.
Hidden skill
Making stuff. I designed and built my own home office from scratch.
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Tell me more!Recent articles by Jamie Garroch
22nd Jan 2020
Making the most of PowerPoint automation solutions
You probably already recognise Microsoft Office as a powerful suite of applications designed to make your working day productive and, dare I say it, even fun! But did you know you can get even more out of Microsoft Office applications through automation solutions?
PowerPoint has evolved into an app which is the Swiss Army knife of content creation, not only for presentations but also printed collaterals, videos and even interactive presentations. In this second part of our series on supercharging PowerPoint interactive presentations with VBA we look at how you can provide your users with visual feedback for active areas of your slide using a mouse hover technique.
- PowerPoint productivity / Presentation technology
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PowerPoint has evolved into an app which is the Swiss Army knife of content creation, not only for presentations, but also printed collateral, videos and even interactive presentations. In this article learn how you can add links to objects on slides that, when clicked, take the user to a different slide.
06th Jun 2019
How to use VBA in PowerPoint: A beginner’s guide
- PowerPoint productivity / Presentation technology
- Comments: 5
One of the ways we improve our PowerPoint productivity in PowerPoint is by using VBA code to automate and extend the functionality of PowerPoint. This article explains how to grab the code from our articles and use it in your PowerPoint project, so that you can take your productivity to the next level!
- PowerPoint productivity / Presentation technology
- Comments: 1
PowerPoint is an awesome tool for creating your latest presentation template, but it can often play up. Here, we walk you through how to manage layouts and recover any deleted default layouts using VBA.
