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8 steps to add branding to your presentations

November 11, 2012 by Ellen Finkelstein 6 Comments

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When I do corporate training or public webinars, I usually ask attendees to submit a couple of slides. After covering basic principles of how to transform presentations (and the reasons behind those principles), I show makeovers of the submitted slides. The makeovers help people see how to use the principles on their own slides. One […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color Tagged With: branding, colors, fonts, theme

How to Create a Chart-Graph in PowerPoint from Excel Data-Part III

August 21, 2012 by Ellen Finkelstein 5 Comments

This video (part III of a series) shows you how to bring a chart from Excel to PowerPoint while accomplishing 3 goals: Maintaining the look of the presentation Keeping the presentation file small Maintaining the security of your data View Part I:  Creating the chart in PowerPoint View Part II: Using a chart that you’ve […]

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Filed Under: Charts, tables & diagrams Tagged With: charts, colors, Excel, graphs, picture

Create a theme in PowerPoint that changes colors

August 12, 2009 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

When you place AutoShapes on the slide master in PowerPoint 2003 and then change the color scheme, those AutoShapes don’t change their color. Only AutoShapes that you place on a slide (as opposed to the slide master) change their color. However, in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010, when you place shapes on the slide master and […]

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Choose colors based on desired results

February 9, 2009 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

With Valentine’s Day coming up, I thought it would be appropriate to review new research that specifically dealt with the effect of the color red. And blue. In an article in the New York Times, “Reinvent Wheel? Blue Room. Defusing a Bomb? Red Room.,” journalist Pam Belluck describes a new study that showed that red […]

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Try design variations

November 5, 2003 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

Designers have an excellent sense of color, but even they try out variations to see which looks best. Those of us who are not designers absolutely need to create variations of colors before making a final decision. Color has a major impact on the effect of a presentation, but on a subtle level. By changing […]

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Filed Under: Design principles Tagged With: background, colors, Design, PowerPoint, presentations, slides

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