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!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.
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.
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.
Understand the most significant differences between PowerPoint for Windows and PowerPoint for Mac whether you're a PowerPoint dabbler or power user.
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!
