Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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The shape on your slide looks perfect. However, if you feel like your slide design is a little too same-old, one way to change it up is to flip your shapes! This simple change can give your design a whole new look while still staying on brand and within the bounds of your slide content. So next time you’re looking for a quick refresh, try flipping your shapes.
Learn how to flip shapes in PowerPoint for the Web.
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We first bring you an interview with Meghan Dotter, who speaks about her new book, The Reluctant Presenter, which explains how to create a mindset of helping the audience. Next, Kacharuk Marukpitak shares how you can use his free tool, the Circular Graphics Maker for PowerPoint. Renowned author Jerry Weissman returns this time and shares some fascinating techniques on how to remember what to say.
We then look at flipping shapes in various versions of PowerPoint. We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.
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Meghan Dotter opened Portico PR to help companies improve presentations, meetings, and the behaviors around them. Portico PR offers on-site workshops to help organizations develop better presentations in less time, focusing on content, design, and delivery. Meghan has built her career around helping people simplify and convey their messages. Her experience includes public relations agencies (New York and Washington, D.C.), and in-house roles, leading external communications for a global Fortune 200 power company.
In this conversation, Meghan talks about her book, The Reluctant Presenter.
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A subject close to the pounding hearts and racing minds of every public speaker or presenter is how to remember what to say. To aid their memories, speakers and presenters routinely rely on a number of devices from low-end 3-by-5 index cards to expensive high-end teleprompters.
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Kacharuk Marukpitak is a father of two, and a quality engineer at a one-stop payment solutions company. He has been passionate about presentation design and has been blogging about PowerPoint tips & tricks, templates, and tools on his website and YouTube channel.
In this conversation, Kacharuk talks about his Circular Graphics Maker for PowerPoint product.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Kacharuk Marukpitak, Shapes
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