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PowerPoint and Presenting News: May 20, 2025

The Indezine newsletter dated May 20, 2025, offers a curated selection of resources and insights for PowerPoint users and presenters. Here’s an overview of its key content:

1. Featured Article: Do Audiences Recall Your Slides? – This article emphasizes that memorable presentations stem from the synergy between the speaker and their slides. It argues that while slide design is important, the lasting impact comes from the cohesive delivery of the message by the presenter and the visuals working in tandem.
2. Product Highlight: Organic Shapes with Brush Edges – A collection of hand-drawn shapes for PowerPoint, featuring 8 shape types, each with 10 variants (totaling 80 shapes), 12 distinct brush stroke styles applied to each shape, and additional lines and arrows in matching brush styles. This results in over 3,000 unique design combinations, offering presenters a vast array of creative options.
3. PowerPoint Tutorial: Inserting a New Slide with Copilot in PowerPoint 365 – A step-by-step guide on utilizing PowerPoint 365’s Copilot feature to add new slides efficiently. The tutorial compares traditional methods with the AI-assisted approach, highlighting the benefits of each.
4. Expert Conversations: David Tang of FlevyPro discusses the platform’s extensive library of business best practices and his journey from management consulting to founding Flevy. Morten Bruun of FlashDocs shares insights on automating slide creation using AI, drawing from his experiences at Google and McKinsey.
5. PowerPoint Templates – This newsletter showcases a variety of PowerPoint templates across different categories.

For more details and to access these resources, visit the full newsletter.

Stay updated with the latest tutorials, tips, and news on PowerPoint and presentation techniques.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Support for HR Professionals is Essential

By Clare Norman, author of Cultivating Coachability

If you have ever flown on a commercial aircraft, you will have heard the safety advice about putting on your own oxygen mask before helping others. It is excellent advice, but not a lesson always learned and deployed for those working tirelessly in Employee Relations and HR. Where is their oxygen mask? These professionals navigate complex emotional terrain daily; they manage conflicts, guide difficult conversations, and support those in crisis. In many ways, they function as the organization’s emotional shock absorbers, but too often, they are left without the benefit of the service they provide to others.

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Tagged as: Clare Norman, Coaching, Guest Post, Human Resources

FlashDocs: Conversation with Morten Bruun

    Morten Bruun is the Co-Founder and CEO of FlashDocs, the AI-native platform automating enterprise slide creation. Before launching FlashDocs, Morten led revenue at Worksome, scaled teams at Google, and got his chart-building muscles from McKinsey. He’s a Forbes 30 Under 30 alum, a keynote speaker on AI, and firmly believes that life’s too short to manually align text boxes.

In this conversation, Morten talks about FlashDocs.

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Tagged as: Companion, FlashDocs, Google Slides, Morten Bruun, PowerPoint

Inserting a New Slide with Copilot in PowerPoint 365 for Windows

Want to add a new slide in PowerPoint 365? You’ve got two main ways—think of it like cooking pasta for dinner. You can either make it from scratch (let’s call this the traditional method) or let a smart robot chef whip it up for you (this is the method that uses Copilot).

Learn how to insert a new slide using the Copilot feature in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Copilot, Insert, Interface, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Tutorials

FlevyPro: Conversation with David Tang

    David Tang is the founder of Flevy, the marketplace for business best practices–the same as those produced by top-tier consulting firms and used by Fortune 100 organizations. Flevy is the largest library of best practice documents available online. Prior to Flevy, David worked as a management consultant, where his clients ranged from startups to Fortune 15. David has a MEng and BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Cornell University.

In this conversation, David talks about FlevyPro.

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Tagged as: David Tang, Diagrams, Flevy Pro, Interviews, Presentation Samples, Slides, Templates