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vicons Coming to an Office near you!
We've been busy creating our next add-in and we think all of you presentation designers out there will like it. It'll work with Excel and Word as well as PowerPoint so watch out for it in October. Sign up to our blog and you'll know when it's ready. In the meantime,...
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Film Leader Countdown in PowerPoint
PowerPoint and Video? PowerPoint is no longer 'just' an environment for creating boardroom presentations. Oh no, it's evolving into a pretty good video authoring tool as well. Now you can turn your static slides into fully animated videos which can include music,...
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SMPTE Color Bars in PowerPoint
SMPTE color bars is a television test pattern used where the NTSC video standard is utilised, including countries in North America. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) refers to this test pattern as Engineering Guideline EG 1-1990. The...
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Free Macro to Select PowerPoint Shapes
Have you ever been frustrated when trying to select multiple shapes (or objects) on a PowerPoint slide? Sometimes, it's just because you have them overlapping on different layers and using the mouse to click is tricky, often leading you to select things you don't...
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Auto-Centre Microsoft Word Documents
When you open or create new documents in Microsoft Word 2010 on a widescreen display, the document appears on the left hand side of the screen. This can be annoying for some users. In this YouTube video, a manual method of centring the document is explained. We...
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Free Color Swatch Add-In
Following a LinkedIn conversation (thanks Chris Dunne!) about converting PowerPoint 2010 templates to 2003, we stumbled across the need to extend the capabilities of PowerPoint 2003 by adding some custom colours to the palette/swatch. As a result, we have a prototype...
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Free Dynamic Navigation Example
In a recent presentation LinkedIn group, Michael Simbrom asked the following question: "I would like to have an image (that contains a lot of detail) and enlarge it so that 1/9th of it is on each of 9 slides and then be able to navigate around those slides without...
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PowerPoint Vignette Effect
Since the dawn of time, Photoshop has been the choice tool for graphic artists but these days, a lot more can be done directly within PowerPoint. In this two minute tutorial, you'll discover how you can add a mood enhancing vignette effect to photos. It's simple,...
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Project directly from a tablet?
It may sounds like a dream come true, or a nightmare for some, to be able to project directly from your Android tablet but that's exactly the vision of Promate with their new lumiTab product. This isn't a tablet connected to a projector but a tablet with a built in...
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Create amazing graphics in PowerPoint
These days, PowerPoint is not only used for creating presentations, but also for e-learning courses, interactive kiosk displays, marketing collaterals, and even video. There are plenty of ways you can add non-photographic graphics to your PowerPoint authored content....
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New Shinfield Plan Website Launched
We're pleased to announce the launch of a brand new website for one of our clients, Shinfield Parish Council. This new site is a platform to communicate with the local community on the subject of Neighbourhood Planning. The project is built on WordPress and there are...
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Picture The Font Problem This is a typical scenario when updating presentations to use new designs, templates, themes or just when you're pasting slides from one deck to another. The slides come across with all of your lovingly created content but you need to change...
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