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A simple, 4-step guide to beautifully visualize data in your presentations

October 29, 2017 by Ellen Finkelstein 6 Comments

This is a guest post by Yousef “Yoyo” Abu Ghaidah, a PowerPoint ninja who founded Slide Cow, a learning platform for all things PowerPoint, presentations and public speaking. When he’s not designing slides or giving presentations, he’s on another coffee run. You can follow him on Twitter here. You probably already know that adding illustrations to […]

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Filed Under: Charts, tables & diagrams Tagged With: data, slide, visualization

Show the current time on your PowerPoint slides

May 4, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 6 Comments

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Let’s say that you’re running a meeting and want to keep everyone on track so that the meeting ends on time. These days, fewer people wear watches. (My son says that if you wear a watch, it’s a sure sign that you’re over 30!) Anyway, it may look impolite to be checking your watch, even […]

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Filed Under: Slide layout, Text & fonts Tagged With: date and time, footer, slide, time

Link to a specific PowerPoint 2003, 2007 or 2010 slide from Microsoft Word or Excel

June 14, 2012 by Ellen Finkelstein 37 Comments

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In another tip, “Hyperlink to a specific slide in another presentation, or specific location in another file,” one of the topics I cover is how to create a hyperlink in PowerPoint that links to a specific location in Word or Excel. I also explain that you can link to a specific slide in another PowerPoint […]

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Filed Under: Hyperlinks Tagged With: Excel, hyperlink, link, PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2010, PowerPont 2003, slide, Word

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