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• Effective eLearning

Interactive PowerPoint quizzes are a great way of levelling up your eLearning content. Whether used for formative or summative assessment, interactive quizzes help learners to have a more engaging experience, identify areas where they need more help, and retain more of what they learned in the course of their training. In this post we cover all the practicalities of creating interactive assessments in PowerPoint.

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With a bit of clever coding, and some BrightCarbon magic, you can create Smart Icons and Illustrations in PowerPoint.

• PowerPoint design / PowerPoint productivity

What’s the secret for how to print multiple PowerPoint slides on one page? We've got a few solutions up our sleeves, from simple and quick to completely custom!

• PowerPoint design / PowerPoint animation
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Engaging social media graphics are a key part of any digital strategy, but social media is a beast that always needs feeding! Learn which PowerPoint features will help you create eye-catching custom social media graphics.

• PowerPoint design

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.

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Learn how to print PowerPoint with notes. Whether you need a simple fix or something more sophisticated - we've got your back!

• 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?

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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.

• Effective eLearning
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In this series we are taking you on a journey through the theory behind effective eLearning assessments and practical tips for building assessments it in three different authoring tools: Microsoft PowerPoint, Articulate Rise, and Articulate Storyline. In this post, we lay the instructional design foundations.

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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.