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...
A PowerPoint template is the only brand element you put in the hands of the whole organisation – regardless of computer literacy, or design skill: it has to be robust enough so that it can’t be broken, but strong enough to carry your brand voice into every meeting, or leave-behind, or proposal it gets used for. Read on for a list of the essential elements every PowerPoint template needs to have.
Reuse Slides is a PowerPoint feature that will be phased out by 1 January 2026. If you're a fan, read on to discover what Microsoft might replace it with, and two alternatives to Reuse Slides to get you using your on-brand, pre-approved content quickly and easily across your whole organisation
For years, PowerPoint has been synonymous with boardroom presentations and academic lectures. Its default 16:9 slide ratio is tuned for projection screens, not LinkedIn grids or TikTok thumbnails. But what if the same tool that powers your pitch decks could also become your go-to design app for social media content?…
When it feels like the call is to make more and do it faster, design smart and build a presentation toolkit packed with effective layout slides. We show you how to start off by building five of your own.
We’re calling out one of the major injustices of corporate rebrands across the globe – PowerPoint falling to the bottom of the rebranding checklist. We discuss why it's a problem and how to fix it!
As the saying goes, a picture speaks a thousand words. PowerPoint offers you multiple image sources to help you create your latest presentation masterpiece, but it isn't very consistent in how it presents them to you. Let's fix that!
Here are five things you should commit to doing this year powered by our productivity and design PowerPoint add-in BrightSlide!
How do you make sure that your graphs and charts have consistent branding across Excel, PowerPoint and Word? Learn how to create and use custom templates that support your brand identity across Microsoft Office.
Navigate your slides in PowerPoint like a pro with the help of hyperlinks! This blog post gives you a step-by-step guide on how to add a navigable menu to your PowerPoint deck.
If you're unfamiliar with the tech, delivering presentations can be a really nerve-racking experience. This blog post gives you a useful rundown of the features of Presenter view in PowerPoint and how they can help you showcase your content with confidence.
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