Dec 2025

    Accessibility often ends up being an afterthought in content creation, but we’ve been thinking for a long time about how it can become part of your foundation when you’re creating presentations – or any other content – using PowerPoint. We’ve been talking to presentation guru, PowerPoint MVP, and anime fan…

    Dec 2025

      If you’re creating a presentation and someone has added images of slides or images of data, it makes it really hard to develop a deck that’s consistently on brand, animated and updatable! Transforming these images into editable slides will make your life so much easier!

      Dec 2025
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      As presentation nerds, we at BrightCarbon have had plenty of opportunity to get to know ins and outs of Google’s browser-based presentation tool. This guide will cover everything you need to know about Google Slides - from the very basics to the most advanced features - and will provide you with the know-how to make brilliant slides, quickly and easily.

      Dec 2025

        Microsoft has now made sensitivity labels available throughout Microsoft 365. This feature allows you to visually mark and electronically protect your Microsoft 365 files to make sure that they don’t fall into the wrong screens!

        Dec 2025
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        Don't just record your next webinar and expect people to listen to all of it. Record a quick summary to increase views, shares, and quality.

        Dec 2025

          If you stick to these guidelines whilst recording, you should be able to achieve professional results from your home or office environment. Remember, preparation before the recording session is paramount to getting the highest quality results. To get the perfect shot, it will take a fair amount of trial and error and normally a few takes! Lights, camera, ACTION!

          Dec 2025
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          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.

          Dec 2025
          29th Apr 2021

          Review: NXPowerLite

            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!

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