by YOUpresent | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog, PowerPoint, Technology, VBA Macros
Customising PowerPoint 2016 Backstage View Microsoft Office Extensibility with Fluent UI XML programming What is the Backstage View? The Backstage view in any Microsoft Office application is the view you see when clicking the File button in the ribbon. It presents...
by YOUpresent | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Graphics, Presentation Automation, Technology, VBA Macros
A good friend, Geetesh Bajaj, over at Indezine recently posted this article about the loss of a feature that used to be present in PowerPoint 2003. That feature is the ability to set transparency for a shape filled with a pattern. Let’s look at a design example...
by YOUpresent | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Graphics, Presentation Design, Technology
If you’re a fan of the ability to import EPS vector graphics into PowerPoint then you’re going to love this. Especially since inserting EPS is not so easy thanks to a Microsoft security update. A few releases back now (around December 2016), Microsoft...
by YOUpresent | Nov 28, 2017 | Add-Ins, Blog, PowerPoint, Technology
Microsoft is making great leaps forward in providing a unified experience across the plethora of device platforms we use these days. That includes the desktop environments of PC and Mac, tablets running iOS and Android, and smartphones. But if you work in a medium to...
by YOUpresent | Nov 21, 2017 | Blog, PowerPoint, Technology, Template Design
Target audience and introduction This article is for users and IT administrators. In the first part, we’ll show users how to set the default template on their PC. In the second part, we’ll show how IT admins can deploy the default template to PC users...
by YOUpresent | Oct 11, 2017 | Blog, PowerPoint, Presentation Automation, Presentation Design, Template Design
A question many PowerPoint template creators ask themselves is “how can I stop users messing with my template and layouts?”. We’re going to share a little known capability of PowerPoint called “UI extensibility” (User Interface) which...