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3 shortcuts for quickly formatting multiple objects

July 19, 2019 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

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I had a client who gave day-long training courses and his presentations were 200-300 slides long. He spent hours changing individual slides–mostly time he could have saved with these 3 shortcuts. You, too, can save a lot of time using these shortcuts to avoid endless fiddling. 1. Format the slide master The slide master lets […]

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Filed Under: User Interface Tagged With: F4, format painter, PowerPoint shortcuts, repeat, slide master, template, theme

Video tutorial: Create a theme in PowerPoint from scratch

June 22, 2015 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

In my clients’ presentations that we make over (usually together), I see a lot of themes and slide masters that aren’t well prepared — sometimes not prepared at all. Setting up the theme and slide master, while it might seem time consuming, is actually a time saver because you avoid having to fiddle with each […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds Tagged With: background, theme

Apply a slide master to a presentation

May 18, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 28 Comments

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I recently received this question. “I have a power point presentation (created in 2007 and recently moved into 2010) that I want to change the master slide with a new one my designer gave me. It was given to me as a regular slide and I want to make it a master slide so all […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color Tagged With: Design, master, template, theme

Customize the default theme to instantly get the look you want

September 21, 2013 by Ellen Finkelstein 4 Comments

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Do you open a new presentation and constantly change the font, font size, font color, alignment and more? Does your organization have difficulty getting everyone to use the right theme, so that presentations are not consistent? One of my readers asked this question because the organization wants presentations to use the Arial font, but the […]

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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

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