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Jamie Garroch

Principal 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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Recent articles by Jamie Garroch

Mar 2024

You can do some really cool things in Microsoft Office with just a few lines of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - from creating your own custom formula in Excel to correcting branded content in PowerPoint to merging address data for a mail campaign in Word. And sometimes you need to share that VBA solution with colleagues and clients, via the Internet. A change that Microsoft rolled out at the end of March 2022 tweaks the process required by Windows users to gain access to this active content.

Mar 2024
07th May 2021

PowerPoint memory game

We love PowerPoint at BrightCarbon. It’s such a versatile application which can be used for so much more than ‘just’ designing presentations. You can create videos, printed collateral, interactive eLearning, even animated GIFs and so much more. But did you know you can even create games? We’ve built one for you, using VBA, and it’s free to download and adapt.