by YOUpresent | May 10, 2018 | Add-Ins, Blog, PowerPoint, Presentation Automation, VBA Macros
Developing with VBA in PowerPoint:mac 2016 Bugs, incompatibilities and other things to watch out for Why create/publish this page? VBA is an ancient technology. I mean over 25 years old. That doesn’t make it bad. In fact, it’s still the ONLY environment a...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Nov 4, 2016 | Add-Ins, Animation, Blog, Graphic Design, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Animation, PowerPoint Graphics, PowerPoint Video, Presentation Automation, Presentation Design, Presenting, VBA Macros
We’re very pleased to announce that our very own Jamie Garroch has been awarded the certificate for PowerPoint Guru by Experts Exchange. Well done! YOUpresent are experts in all aspects of the craft known as “presenting”. If you need help with any of...
