Category: Blog-HowTo-PPT

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PowerPoint Slide Formats – 16:9 or 4:3 or other?

Do you have a presentation in classical 4:3 format? Are you considering whether to change it to widescreen format (16:9)? Or maybe you are creating a presentation offer that you want to print on A4 paper sheets? Let me show you how and when change slide proportions and how to use untypical presentation formats.

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Visual Communication Mastery: 7 Benefits of PowerPoint Training for HR and business

Keeping employees engaged and continuously enhancing their skill sets is an ongoing challenge. In particular, younger generations entering the workforce have high expectations for training opportunities that are practical and immediately applicable to their work. One highly effective area to focus on is the art of creating visually compelling presentations.

Based on my experience with designing slides and delivering training to various businesses, I collected here main reasons why investing in visual communication training combined with improving PowerPoint skills can bring a significant benefits to your organization.

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Summer in Marketing? An Opportunity to Prepare for a Busy Q4

Summer in the office can be a pretty lazy time. There are fewer urgent projects running, it’s a low season for sales, fairs, or conferences. Half of the staff are on holiday anyway. However, for the marketing department, this is an ideal time to prepare for the busy last quarter.

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4 Ways to use Generative AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini…) for Presentation Design

There are multiple specialized AI tools for presentations popping up. However, as professional presentation designers and heavy PowerPoint users we see that they still lack the stability that Microsoft Office tools offer. Especially for business people, stability is crucial, not depending on new cloud apps and frequent changes of AI tools. Therefore it’s good to know how to use the major AI players’ tools together with your “good-old” PowerPoint – in a marriage that offers the creativity of AI and stability of a tool you are familiar with, you can save and edit locally even if offline.

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Five Data Chart Mistakes to Avoid in Presentation

How to present data on your slides while keeping clarity and professional look? Make sure you are not failing into one of the data visualization traps. I collected the most common mistakes I see people do in business presentations. Especially when they present data from various Excel charts copied to PowerPoint.

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