So, you told your friends you could animate the Death Star. Or assured your boss that, yes, of course you could make fake ants crawl over his PowerPoint slide, if he really wants it. But you’ve just realised your PowerPoint animation expertise doesn’t extend that far! Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!
We’ve gathered below all our best tips and tricks for PowerPoint animation: find out how to use animation to make your corporate presentations look slick and professional, or learn how to make something really cool that will have your colleagues standing up in spontaneous applause.
Have a browse, find what you need, or if you don’t, give us a shout! We have many PowerPoint ninjas who would be delighted to help.
You know when you’ve got a conference call and you’re first on, and there’s that blissful silence when you can contemplate anything in the world? What do you do? I found myself in that situation the other day, and I ended up being a bit like Darth Vader…
PowerPoint morph is a magic little PowerPoint transition that’s been around for a while now. As the world gradually discovers just how useful it really is, it’s turning out to be the gift that keeps giving. In the first of our trilogy of morph tutorials, learn how to make a magnifying glass.
PowerPoint’s morph transition is a game-changing feature in the world of presentations, but it’s not without it's faults. Here’s a handy tip for using PowerPoint morph with multiple objects.
When carrying out BrightCarbon's Advanced PowerPoint training course, showing Keyboard shortcuts to help people carry out every-day tasks much faster than normal is always a really big hit. Download our PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts PDF here...
Countdown timers can be really effective ways of filling time in breaks at conferences or training sessions, or to give people a time limit to do an exercise or have a discussion. Follow these easy steps to create your own that is completely editable and see how easy it is to create a slick, branded countdown timer just using PowerPoint.
You know when you’ve got a conference call and you’re first on, and there’s that blissful silence when you can contemplate anything in the world? What do you do? I found myself in that situation the other day, and I ended up being a bit like Darth Vader…
What happens if you're tasked with a project where you can't rely on your beloved Adobe suite and - shock of all horrors - you have to use PowerPoint? I grant you, PowerPoint may not be the obvious choice for a piece of design software. However, it is possible to create beautiful things with it. This is much easier of course if you know some tricks of the trade – as luck would have it I have complied a list to get you started.
The Morph transition in PowerPoint 2016 is pretty cool, but did you know that it can also make objects rotate in 3D too? Check this out to see how.
There’s a new feature in PowerPoint 2016 called ‘Screen Recording’ that allows you to record video (exported as an MP4) of hand-drawn sketches, which can serve as a great tool for many different applications, including presentations, eLearning and training. For anyone who is new to the Screen Recording tool, this blog will serve as an easy introduction on how to best use its functionality and get the best results...
Recording narration in PowerPoint is really useful if you want to create an all-singing, all-dancing video version of your presentation, but in the latest version of PowerPoint the interface is slightly counter-intuitive. Here’s how to use it, and do it like a pro...
PowerPoint turned 29 a couple of weeks ago. Corporately, we missed it. We were too busy using it to make some pretty flash-looking slides to notice this pretty significant milestone in the life of our go-to piece of software. So, accept this article as a belated birthday present, paying tribute to the double-P-to-the-T...
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