I am shameless in saying that I am PowerPoint queen. If I can’t do it in PowerPoint, it can’t be done. Humble? Not in this. I have seen horrors, fixed them, and taught plenty of people “how to fish”. These posts are all about building better presentations, and using Microsoft’s best product in the most efficient way.
Time to read: 2 minutesOne of the strongest features of powerpoint is also one of its weaknesses. Slide masters. The ability to set up a consistent layout and format goes to pot when that format cannot be edited from its context of use. Ever tried fixing alignment on a slide when you can’t see the content? Then you haven’t […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minuteI’m sure you’ve heard of Prezi. If you hadn’t until this week, then perhaps this lovely one about the US elections will have caught your eye. Election Results Prezi on Prezi What makes prezi cool Nice flow to items shown, making it incredibly refreshing compared to slide decks, a legacy of the sixties Easy to […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutesWell this is new! Knowing from the get-go that my current position wasn’t going to last forever (nobody wants to clean powerpoints for a lifetime), and that there is no room for moving up, I have been contemplating labels, careers, paths, and suchlike, in an effort to figure out what it is that I might […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutesIt’s the first day of the Olympics work-at-home period, and I’ve already upgraded my laptop’s RAM from 4GB to 8GB, and improved yet another of our bazillion wikis. So, what’s next? One of my pet projects, because now, I feel I have the peace of mind to concentrate and put this together. It’s like a […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute5 things presenters need to know about people An excellent short presentation on 5 basic cognitive properties of humans by Susan Weinschenk. […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minuteAnd another fail for exporting from PowerPoint to PDF. If link contains a hashtag, everything after the hashtag is dropped from the URL. So I’ve spent part of the morning researching OpenOffice. Sadly, impress failed to do what its name suggests, and I’m back on square one: with a broken link on a PDF. I’ll […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minuteSomeone wanted to mock up a newspaper front page, but couldn’t quite visualise it. Barely an hour in PowerPoint, and I pulled this together. The main photo on the cover is my own, taken in Wales on a hike. […] continue reading »