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By John Auckland, TribeFirst
There are lots of different opinions on what makes a good deck, much of it misguided and rooted in opinion rather than data. There are also a number of bad industry habits that are endemic and often harmful to the investment process. This article takes my experience of successfully funding around 50 companies and combines this knowledge with research completed by DocSend to find the perfect formula for an engaging, compelling, and ultimately easy-to-digest deck.
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Tagged as: Guest Post, John Auckland, Pitch Decks, Presentations
Do you want to add an infinity symbol on your slide? Or do you want to add one of the mathematical symbols? Or even the Yen or Rupee symbols? PowerPoint provides several ways to add such symbols, but the most straightforward option is to use the Symbol dialog box. Let us now explore how you can add symbols within your text containers in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
Add symbols within your text in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: Character, Insert, Microsoft Windows, Office 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Symbol, Tutorials
You may want to quickly add an em dash within your text container—be it a placeholder, text box, shape, or even a table. It’s very easy to add an em dash, and there is more than one way to achieve this task, although there may be some differences, and all ways may not work in the version of PowerPoint you are using. But certainly, using one of these options, you will be able to add an em dash in PowerPoint.
Learn how you can insert an em dash in PowerPoint for Windows.
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PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Character, Em Dash, PowerPoint, Symbol, Tutorials
When you insert any shape into your PowerPoint slide, more often than not you will want to make some changes to the default shape that you end up with. Mainly, you may want to resize and rotate the shape. This is something we do a lot in our everyday life, like rearranging our work desks, or even changing the position of our favorite chair so that we feel more comfortable. Similarly, all objects on your slide need to be arranged in a way that feels appropriate, rotation is one way of making this change happen. In PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, rotation can be applied in more than one way.
Learn how to rotate shapes approximately and accurately in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Rotate, Shapes, Tutorials
Many times, you may want to add an image within a star shaped container, or any other container shape, such as a diamond, a teardrop, or even a triangle. This is quite easy to achieve, and involves two basic PowerPoint techniques. The first technique is to add a shape, and the second is to fill the shape with an image. Here’s how you do it in almost any version of PowerPoint, since PowerPoint 2007 until the recent versions.
Easily place your image within a star or another shape in PowerPoint.
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PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Fills, Pictures, PowerPoint, Shapes, Tutorials
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