Love it or hate it, PowerPoint is the go-to for most companies when it comes to making presentations. And the more we use it and get to know it, the more we see both its good bits and bad bits. As PowerPoint power-users, however, we’ve gone where most presentation designers fear to go, and we’ve found the PowerPoint productivity hacks and shortcuts for you, so that you can get on with making excellent presentations.
Browse out articles below to find out how to defeat the wheel animation, discover the team’s favourite PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts, and see your productivity (and the cool things you can make) sky-rocket!
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...
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!
Learn how to print PowerPoint with notes. Whether you need a simple fix or something more sophisticated - we've got your back!
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?
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.
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!
One of the things we recommend PowerPoint users do is create a quick acccess toolbar. It's a easy way to get to some of the hidden functionality in PowerPoint. But when do you find the time to create one? What tools should you add to it? Here at BrightCarbon we've created a PowerPoint toolbar to help.
There’s no native feature in PowerPoint that lets you run your slides in a random order. But, where there's a will, there's a way! And with a touch of VBA, we've got a way.
If you use PowerPoint a lot, chances are you’ll have seen your fair share of glitches and malfunctions. And nothing is so frustrating as losing work or precious time to PowerPoint crashes! So, after doing some of my own extensive research, here are the most common reasons why PowerPoint crashes and what you can do about it.
You probably already recognise Microsoft Office as a powerful suite of applications designed to make your working day productive and, dare I say it, even fun! But did you know you can get even more out of Microsoft Office applications through automation solutions?
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