Time to read: 2 minutes Well 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 »
Category: Presentations
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.
Can I teach you powerpoint? Please?
Time to read: 2 minutes It’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 »
5 things presenters need to know about people
Time to read: < 1 minute 5 things presenters need to know about people An excellent short presentation on 5 basic cognitive properties of humans by Susan Weinschenk. […] continue reading »
PPT PDF export fail
Time to read: < 1 minute And 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 »
PowerPoint newspaper frontpage
Time to read: < 1 minute Someone 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 »