04th Mar 2021
Restoring Notes Pages in PowerPoint
If you're having trouble with your Notes Pages - slide, notes and number placeholders changing size or jumping around - this little VBA macro will fix it for you in a snap.
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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
05th Feb 2021
Unravelling PowerPoint picture size and resolution
Pictures in PowerPoint can be tricky to get to grips with. Choosing the right size has an impact on both the file size of your presentation and the maximum monitor/projection size you can use without degrading quality.
How do you make sure the presentations, spreadsheets and documents your create in Microsoft Office are kept in line with your brand? Learn how to create, save and deploy a custom Office theme across PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
07th Dec 2020
PowerPoint for Windows PC vs PowerPoint for macOS
Understand the most significant differences between PowerPoint for Windows and PowerPoint for Mac whether you're a PowerPoint dabbler or power user.
19th Oct 2020
Solving the missing Mac Developer tab in PowerPoint
- PowerPoint productivity / Presentation technology
- Comments: 16
If you've ever run or written a macro for PowerPoint, Excel or Word on a Windows PC you'll probably be familiar with the Developer tab. Move over to the Mac and you'll be able to turn on the Mac Developer tab for both Excel and Word but it simply doesn't exist for PowerPoint. Until now!
04th Sep 2020
PowerPoint Mac Quick Access Toolbar
- PowerPoint productivity / Presentation technology
- Comments: 8
One of the things we recommend PowerPoint users do is create a quick acccess toolbar. It's a easy way to get to some of the hidden functionality in PowerPoint. But when do you find the time to create one? What tools should you add to it? Here at BrightCarbon we've created a PowerPoint toolbar to help.
