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Let’s start with the basics: what are guides? Picture a tailor’s cutting table, marked with faint chalk lines that keep every cut straight and every seam aligned. Guides do the same job on a PowerPoint slide, except this time, you’re the tailor, and the chalk never runs out. Every guide can be moved, added, or deleted entirely on your terms. Nothing is fixed in place unless you decide it should be. But here’s the twist nobody warns you about: the moment guides show up on your slide, they stop being polite background lines and start quietly running the show. Snapping is built in, permanently switched on, no settings buried three menus deep. Let an object wander even a little too close, and it clicks into place before you’ve finished dragging, like a magnet that’s been lying in wait the whole time. You won’t aim. You won’t nudge pixel by pixel. The guide will simply decide you’re done.
Learn how to work with guides in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
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Tagged as: Align, Guides, Interface, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Tutorials
This issue starts with a mystery. You add a guide in PowerPoint, and it won’t move. You didn’t lock it. You didn’t protect it. It just sits there. The hierarchical guide options tutorial solves that one. Then Paul Lukehart arrives with SimpleDim, a CAD add-in that gives PowerPoint the ability to measure real-world distances, which sounds impossible until you try it. Claudyne Wilder has a quieter provocation: your slides are fine, your data is solid, and your audience is still not connecting. A story fixes that faster than another bullet point ever will. And Jerry Weissman returns with Writer’s Block II, because apparently the first one wasn’t enough to unstick everyone.
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Matteo Cassese is a business coach for entrepreneurs and keynote speaker with over twenty years of experience across corporate, startup, and creative worlds. He has worked with Warner Bros., Netflix, Sony, LinkedIn, and Vinted, and spoken on stages like SXSW and Gitex. During seven years at Warner Bros. Pictures, he helped launch more than 140 films. Based in Berlin, he helps founders and executives build businesses on their own terms.
In this conversation, Matteo speaks about his post, Founder’s Journey.
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Tagged as: Audience, Coaching, Interviews, Leadership, Matteo Cassese, Myth, Presentation Skills, Public Speaking, Storytelling
The step-by-step process to get past the proverbial blank page of the previous blog is as applicable to presenters as it is to writers. Another method to break through the mental barricade is to just start talking.
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Tagged as: Content, Creativity, Guest Post, Ideas, Jerry Weissman, Presentation Skills, Storytelling
Paul Lukehart is founder and managing principal of PL Programs LLC, a project consulting firm founded in 2020. His background is in distribution and fulfillment operations, capital project management, and he has authored a book, Practical Floor Supervision on front-line operations leadership. Paul and his family live in Indiana, and in addition to slide decks for client needs, he works on projects like SimpleDim.
In this conversation, Paul discusses SimpleDim, an add-in that lets you work with CAD within PowerPoint.
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Tagged as: Add-in, CAD, Interviews, Paul Lukehart, PowerPoint, SimpleDim
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