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Two PowerPoint accessibility features plus one “off label” use

May 24, 2019 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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People with visual disabilities may use a screen reader to read the screen to them. PowerPoint has features that work with screen readers and you can help to ensure that this experience is useful for people with visual disabilities. Accessibility is the concept of making any software more usable by people with disabilities. Many companies […]

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Wishing joy, health & prosperity to you and the world

December 31, 2017 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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Happy New Year! What are your goals for 2015?

December 31, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 4 Comments

Here’s my New Year’s card to you. It highlights photos I’ve taken during all 4 seasons, from New York, to Florida, to Iowa and Nebraska. I hope you enjoy it! I have big plans for 2015 — a weekly 15-minute webinar series, a new/old e-book, and more. How about you? Leave a comment!

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Customize the PowerPoint interface

October 29, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

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Your work in PowerPoint can go faster and easier if you customize the interface so that you don’t have to click so many times to find commands that you use often. In PowerPoint 2010 and 2013, you can customize not only the Quick Access Toolbar (usually at the top left of your screen) but the […]

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The flipped meeting

October 15, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 5 Comments

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At the Presentation Summit, I heard Patti Sanchez, SVP of Strategic Services at Duarte, talk about slidedocs, which are slides that are used as short documents. One use she mentioned was for pre-meeting reading. (You can download Nancy Duarte’s free book on slidedocs here.) At the end of her talk, I stood up and said […]

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