by YOUpresent | Oct 3, 2014 | Blog, Presenting
Indezine rarely do surveys – in fact the last one they did was the Business Presentations Survey 10 years ago! And you will agree that 10 years is a long, long time – so that’s the reason why they wanted to do this survey again. Yes they wanted to...
by YOUpresent | Sep 19, 2014 | Blog, VBA Macros
Many of our add-in products require that you have Visual Basic for Application (VBA) installed as part of your Microsoft Office installation. In addition to being installed, it must be enabled. Both of the above may be set by the administrator(s) of your computer. We...
by YOUpresent | Sep 15, 2014 | Blog, Photography, PowerPoint Graphics, VBA Macros
They say a picture speak a thousand words. Sometimes though, you’d like to control the speed at which those thousand words are delivered to your audience! A great way of doing this is to gradually reveal your picture during your slide show. The built in...
by YOUpresent | Sep 12, 2014 | Blog, Graphic Design, Photography, PowerPoint Graphics, Presenting
Since PowerPoint 2013 the default slide template for new presentations is set to use the slide aspect ratio of 16:9 to follow the modern widescreen view that we’re all used to in our TV rooms these days. Of course you can change that default but what if you want...
by YOUpresent | Sep 11, 2014 | Blog, Presentation Automation, VBA Macros
Knowing the area of a shape in PowerPoint can be very useful when wanting to visually represent a percentage of that shape. Let’s say we have a map of a country represented by a vector shape in PowerPoint, Excel or Word and we want to visualise that half of that...
by YOUpresent | Sep 10, 2014 | Add-Ins, Blog, Presenting
PowerPoint is a great tool for presenting »caveat«when used properly, by capable authors and presenters! but it’s never really been a good application for developing e-learning content. The oddly named Office Mix is Microsoft’s attempt at resolving that...