by YOUpresent | Feb 27, 2018 | Blog, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Animation, PowerPoint Graphics, Presentation Design, Technology, VBA Macros
3D Model Interaction in a PowerPoint Slide Show touch screen demo using VBA New 3D Models for Microsoft Office We love the new 3D Model capabilities that have recently arrived in Microsoft Office. And just to be clear, we’re talking about 3D Models and not 3D...
by YOUpresent | Feb 26, 2018 | Blog, Graphic Design, PowerPoint, Presentation Automation, Presentation Design, Presenting, Technology
Interactive PowerPoint slide show for expo using VBA to facilitate manual/automatic playback and custom navigation We recently got asked to build a deck for a trade show. We’ve done them before, you know the kind of thing, an automatic loop on a big screen? Only this...
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...