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Using PowerPoint’s new illustrations

January 21, 2021 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

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PowerPoint is adding new types of graphics and expanding existing ones. These are all available in Office 365, because they are constantly being updated. One of the most recent additions is called Illustrations. Here are two examples on a slide… They are in grayscale with a pop of yellow but you can: Easily change the […]

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Filed Under: Images Tagged With: graphics, illustrations, SVG, vector files

PowerPoint has photos again! And a lot more…

July 20, 2020 by Ellen Finkelstein 4 Comments

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If you have Office 365 — now called Microsoft 365, confusingly — you might have noticed that after several years without photos, they’ve come back! Actually, they aren’t the same photos, but better quality ones. It’s a relief to be able to find photos right within PowerPoint without an add-in. (More about add-ins at the […]

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Filed Under: Images Tagged With: PowerPoint cutout people, PowerPoint graphics, PowerPoint images, PowerPoint photos

Presenting remotely: Avoid the 8 deadly sins of webinars

March 30, 2020 by Ellen Finkelstein 11 Comments

Note: I originally wrote this in 2013 but I’m updating this during the Coronavirus pandemic because more people are presenting online now. Webinars are a powerful way to communicate from afar. They have opened up many possibilities for marketing, meetings, and training. But only if you do webinars right. If you simply show slides with the […]

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Filed Under: Delivery, Design principles, Events, Training Tagged With: webinars

Create an animated intro for videos in PowerPoint

March 4, 2020 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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If you want to create a series of short training or promotional videos, it’s useful to have an intro that you put in front of each video. This might include your company’s branding or just create a theme that viewers associate with your videos. Since you’ll be adding a video, it looks better when you […]

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Filed Under: Animation & transitions, Multimedia: Music, sound & video, Training Tagged With: animated intro, animation, intro, outro, promotional video, sales video, training video, video

How to create a logo in PowerPoint

January 18, 2020 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

Would you like to create your own logo, product image, or course symbol in PowerPoint in a few minutes — following some easy steps? If so, you’re in luck, just read on. I’m going to show you how to create this logo — and you can customize it in any way you want. A logo […]

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Filed Under: Images, Shapes & text boxes, Text & fonts Tagged With: arch, create a logo, create a logo in PowerPoint, design your own logo, logo, product image, transform

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