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Create a tile menu with hyperlinks to slides
It’s often useful to create a menu for your first or second slide. Here are some scenarios: To facilitate easy navigation to anywhere in your presentation To allow your audience to choose the order of...
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Quickly create a grid of tiled images
Can you imagine creating this slide in under 5 minutes? Well, you can. Using SmartArt picture layouts Few people use or even know about the SmartArt picture layouts. They help you lay out multiple...
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Design an e-book or report cover in PowerPoint
Last week, I talked about how to convert a presentation to a report or e-book. This week, I want to show you how to design a cover for that report or e-book in PowerPoint. If you aren’t a designer and...
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A neat little psychology trick for quickly laying out messy slides
This is a guest blog post by Taylor Croonquist. Taylor is the co-founder of Nuts & Bolts Speed Training, a website delivering actionable PowerPoint training and speed strategies, helping...
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Working with multi-speaker presentations
I just finished work for a client on a multi-speaker presentation. It was a presentation that will be given to nurses at a nursing school and I thought I’d share my experiences with you. It’s quite a...
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Using a slide layout template for infinite variations
Once you create a great slide layout for a presentation, you can use that slide over and over by changing the text and the image. This technique will save you an amazing amount of time and make your...
View Article4 layouts that always look good-video training
In my bestselling e-book, Slide Design for Non-Designers, I cover 4 layouts that always look good. These are for slides that have a title and an image. The layouts make it easy to quickly create a...
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Layer images and shapes for stunning slides
A simple way to create stunning slides is to layer an image, a shape, and text placeholders. Here are 2 examples: Here are the steps to create these slides: 1. Enter your text Use the Title and Content...
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Think BIG to create high-impact presentations
You want your presentations to have an impact on your audience — change them, move them to action, inspire them. One way to do this is to think BIG, both in terms of your concepts and your visuals. Big...
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3 ways to use images
As I see it, there are 3 ways to use images on a slide: As a background, behind text: The purpose is to make a slide that is essentially all text look better As a supplement to text: The purpose is to...
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