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...
by YOUpresent | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog, PowerPoint
QR codes are a great marketing tool. Thanks to the wide use of smartphones, potential customers can simply pull out their favourite barcode scanning app, take a picture of your code and visit your chosen website page. This can be a great call-to-action within your...
by YOUpresent | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog, PowerPoint, Technology
I came across a question in ExpertsExchange the other day that was asking for help with some ribbon customisations. They always start with an XML namespace declaration which is a URI and the user wondered why the URI didn’t load anything in a browser. It got me...
by YOUpresent | Dec 19, 2016 | Blog, Excel, PowerPoint, Presentation Automation, VBA Macros
We came across the need to remove ribbon customisation from a macro-enabled Office file recently and spent some time researching how to do it and coming up with a neat solution which we’re sharing here. Why do we need to do this? Firstly, let’s explore why...
by YOUpresent | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog, Graphic Design, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Graphics
PowerPoint just keeps getting better and better. This month sees the brand new addition of native support for SVG and along with it, a new Icons category in the media library. We’ll take a look at both features to explore the benefits and potential pitfalls....
