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Ellen FinkelsteinMy goal is to help you succeed when you present by giving you knowledge. I'm passionate about turning Death by PowerPoint into Life by PowerPoint. You'll find free tips, techniques, articles, and tutorials here. At the E-store find books and courses to aid you in becoming a great presenter. On my About page, learn more about consulting, workshops, training, webinars, and coaching on presentation skills and PowerPoint.

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Speaking Pro Central

Speaking Pro Central

Resetting a slide: A quick fix for awful slides

Do you have to fix up slides that other people made a mess of? I do. For some reason, I get a lot of slides on which people ignored the Layout feature of PowerPoint; instead, they inserted text boxes anywhere on the slide—in a different location on each slide!

Often, the first thing I do is [...]

February 16th, 2010 | Category: Slide layout | %COMMENTS('Leave a comment', 'One comment', '% comments', 'Comments are closed')%

Improve your slide design by trying layout variations

In my “Create an Outstanding Presentation” workshops and self-study course, I teach four layouts that always look good. I taught them again recently in a presentation skills class for college students.

I find that many presenters who create their own slides struggle with slide design. Not being artists, their efforts are clunky. They usually know this, [...]

January 21st, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Slide layout, Uncategorized | %COMMENTS('Leave a comment', 'One comment', '% comments', 'Comments are closed')%