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• PowerPoint design

Designing content to be accessible doesn't have to mean you compromise on vibrant design, or your brand guidelines. In this article you'll learn more about colour contrast and how you can preserve colour vibrancy without having to sidestep WCAG accessibility guidelines.

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It's Christmas! After a late night with too much eggnog and brandy snaps we set ourselves a challenge to see who could come up with the wildest PowerPoint Christmas card! So it's the day after the night before, and through blurry eyes we can reveal our efforts...

• PowerPoint productivity / Industry insights

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

• Presentation technology / Industry insights

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…

The biggest source of event stress comes from this interesting conundrum: the success of the thing you poured your life and soul into for the last few months does not depend on you. It all comes down to your presenters conveying your messages in the right way, with the right amount of energy, and the audience – that you have absolutely no control over – engaging with those messages. Good news. There is a solution: and it’s just one solution to address both challenges. It's all about the science of audience engagement and presenter anxiety, and how the content you present can help both.

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At BrightCarbon, we've designed custom PowerPoint templates for everyone from small businesses to global enterprises, reaching hundreds of thousands of users. Along the way, we've spotted common pitfalls that crop up again and again. The good news? Most of these issues are easy to spot, and even easier to fix. Read on for five signs your PowerPoint template needs an update, plus practical tips to get it back on track.

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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?…

• PowerPoint design

Logo slides are a regular fixture of presentations, but they're often ugly and messy and tend not to do too much to build the credibility they're supposed to. Follow along to learn how to make a logo slide look neat and tidy, and if you want a stretch task, get inspired by some competitor-trouncing alternatives

• PowerPoint design / PowerPoint productivity

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.

• PowerPoint design / Visual communication

Find out how you can make more accessible and inclusive presentations by thinking carefully about fonts, layouts, colours and structure.