You'll find supertext, as I call it, making the rounds in television commercials. Similarly, I'm finding -- and using it -- in PowerPoint design. Why I like it A slide using supertext is a great tool for leveraging the "single concept per slide" guideline. As a part of a mix...
As promised, here is a tutorial to create an animated sketch in PowerPoint. Follow these steps using PowerPoint 2013 on your Surface Pro (I have not tested this on other Windows 8 touch devices). Download presentation here: http://wp.me/p1kyln-5W...
Check out this fun animated sketch I created using PowerPoint 2013. I used the Ink Tools featured on my Surface Pro. It's a great way to incorporate design trends into your PowerPoint presentations. Globe Sketch 2 < Here is the PowerPoint file. Here is the link to...
This step-by-step series of tutorials will show you how to animate shapes and text to create a customizable patriotic slide with background music. This third tutorial focuses on drawing and animating the Text shown below. Create text Learn how to animate the Text in the above slide -- but with...
I took a rather daring approach to business travel this past week. I hit the road with a my week-old Microsoft Surface Pro tablet and the newest release of Microsoft Office (2013). I travelled to Microsoft for a series of meetings at the annual Global...
Creating Powerful PowerPoint Graphics Using PowerPoint Drawing ToolsI've been working exclusively in the business of creating PowerPoint presentations for others since 2001. Over the course of the past 12 years I’ve learned that PowerPoint users get their graphics from several sources that have their pros...
Ric B is near and dear to my heart. Great book for us PowerPoint Geeks -- and the rest of the world!...
[caption id="attachment_93" align="alignleft" width="257" caption="Before: What's so important about the information on this slide?"][/caption] Take a look at the Before slide image here. It's not as bad as many of the slides I've seen in my day. There's a lot of white space and only a few short, succinct...