I help presentation designers be more productive in PowerPoint through the design of add-ins, delivery of training, and speaking at events.
Two teenagers for my sins, Connor and Kaitlyn. All three of us supported by my incredible wife, Becky. She’s my rock.
Dougal the Labradoodle, Lol and Dan the cats.
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.
Centigrade or Fahrenheit? As a Brit living in the US, I’m very confused!
B. Eng. Communications Engineering from Plymouth.
Fancy dress costumes.
Passion, PowerPoint, perseverance.
Making stuff. I designed and built my own home office from scratch.
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Tell me more!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!
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.
There’s no native feature in PowerPoint that lets you run your slides in a random order. But, where there's a will, there's a way! And with a touch of VBA, we've got a way.
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.
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.
