Sometimes, a simple design secret can dramatically improve your slides. A belly band is such a secret. Well, it really isn’t a secret to designers, because designers use them all the time (just look in any magazine), but non-designers don’t know about it.
A belly band is just a band of color that holds [...]
Maybe Web 2.0 is already an old look, but you still see a lot of it. Of course, Web 2.0 really refers to how a website functions–especially interactivity and sharing.
But, along with Web 2.0 has come a type of design and one of its main hallmarks is a clean, shiny look. Why shiny? [...]
At the Presentation Summit conference, I saw two presenters use iconic people on their slides. One was Nancy Duarte, a very well-known presentation designer, and the other was Wayne Michael, who spoke on how to create your own graphics. Michael took these iconic people to amazing heights, creating all sorts of characters. He did [...]
To introduce a panel at a panel discussion or employees to a group, you can create a slide with their photos, name, title, and so on.
Because you want to speak about each person in turn, you can use animation to display each person’s photo and name when you click. Here is one approach [...]
You may know that you can draw on your slide while presenting in Slide Show view. Most people don’t use this feature very much, because the results look pretty sloppy.
I used the Highlighter option in this slide. As you can see, the circle is pretty messy, but might be OK for an [...]
I’m working on my upcoming webinar, High-Impact Slide Design for Non-Designers, and one technique that I’m covering is transparency gradients. I’m explaining how to use them for a simple bottom bar on a slide and also how to create belly bands. (What, you don’t know what belly bands are?)
I realized that my tip [...]
Shadows create the illusion that an object is hovering above the slide. They can make shapes look more realistic. In PowerPoint 2007, it’s easy to create soft shadows, but in PowerPoint 2003, you need to use a trick. Here are instructions for both.
PowerPoint 2003
Inssert an AutoShape by choosing AutoShapes from the Drawing [...]
You can fine tune the fills of your AutoShapes (Shapes, in 2007) by applying a variety of surface materials and lighting treatments. The differences are subtle but can impart a more professional result and create a realistic 3D look. PowerPoint 2007 has added many additional material and lighting settings. I’ve covered PowerPoint 2007 [...]
One of PowerPoint 2007′s new features is reflections. You can create reflected text in earlier versions, too, using WordArt.
Click the WordArt button on the Formatting toolbar. In the WordArt gallery, choose a simple option (nothing wavy), and click OK.
Enter the text you want in the Edit WordArt Text dialog box. If you [...]
Sometimes you may want to edit a diagram or AutoShape in a way that PowerPoint doesn’t allow.
For example, you may have created a complex diagram, such as the flowchart you see here (or any combination of shapes and text).
a complex diagram
Now you need to make the entire diagram smaller [...]
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