Lucy Wyatt

• PowerPoint productivity / Industry insights

Microsoft's new Font Picker has some sparkling new features sure to save you time when you're whipping up your next masterpiece.

• PowerPoint design / Google Slides
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We’ve been investigating what gets lost in translation when you open a file from Microsoft PowerPoint in Google Slides. While both platforms broadly serve the same purpose, there are lots of differences between the two and we’ve noticed certain glitches and issues when you convert PowerPoint to Google Slides. Here's what to look out for.

• PowerPoint productivity / Presentation technology

NXPowerLite is the latest incarnation of a nifty Office compression solution which helps to reduce file sizes in a multitude of ways. Whether you pin it to your taskbar or choose to compress directly within Microsoft products such as PowerPoint, Word, Excel or Outlook, NXPowerLite makes compression so easy!

• PowerPoint productivity

We review Slidewise, a font and media add-in for PowerPoint which gives you a deeper insight into your documents. Is it the answer to our font-finding prayers?

• PowerPoint design
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Drop-down menus in PowerPoint allow you to create flexible, interactive slides. They can help you make interactive self-led presentations, documents, eLearning, training materials…. the list goes on!

• PowerPoint design
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Sometimes we struggle to find things and get frustrated when they don’t appear, whether it’s locating your house keys, finding Wally in a sea of Wally impostors or hunting down the partner to that lone sock at the bottom of the washing basket. Or maybe it’s replacing fonts that PowerPoint says are present in your file, but you just can’t find and your childhood Wally searching skills are letting you down. Well, this post can help you with PowerPoint, but you’ll have to find the sock yourself, sorry!