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Jean Haney is the co-founder and president of Visual Integrity, long-standing specialists in PDF and vector graphics technologies. With more than 35 years of software industry experience and a fascination with good page design and typography, Jean enjoys distilling topics down to their essence and providing her audience with a few, "I didn't know you could do that with PDF!" moments. In this conversation, Jean talks about Insert PDF for PowerPoint.
You get 8 shape types plus lines as part of this Organic Shapes collection. Each of these 8 shape types have 10 variants. So you end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options! Again each of these 80 shapes have 12 brush stroke styles! Plus you get the lines and arrows in 12 brush stroke styles too. Combine all variations to end up with more than 3000 possibilities.
As you no doubt have noticed if you've ever sat through a typical PowerPoint presentation, people don't pay attention to boring things. You've got seconds to grab someone's attention and only 10 minutes to keep it.
May 24, 2019
Do you want to insert a check mark, which is also called a tick mark, in your slides? Very often, this symbol indicates a task is done, and you may want to add it as part of your regular text in text placeholders and boxes, shapes, tables, and even charts. Fortunately, it is very easy to complete this task in most versions of PowerPoint for Windows. There may be slight differences, depending upon whether you are using a newer or older version of PowerPoint, but even then, the process is very similar.
Learn how you can insert a check mark or tick mark in PowerPoint for Windows.
May 23, 2019
The new discipline of presentation management can have an enormous impact on a company. Presentation management takes presentations from one-and-done, single files and turns them into enterprise assets deployed intelligently throughout your organization.
Read more in this post by AlexAnndra Ontra, James Ontra, and Geetesh Bajaj.
May 23, 2019
The terms Header and Footer typically come from word processing programs. These denote repeated elements that show at the top and bottom of every page. Headers and Footers work similarly on PowerPoint slides.
Learn how to add Headers and Footers to slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
May 22, 2019
Someone recently asked me, “how do you manage an executive who has to give a presentation [for a conference or meeting] but isn’t meeting the deadlines or giving you the critical information to create their PowerPoint graphics?” “That’s happy hour conversation,” I mused, confessing that I’ve endured plenty of sleepless nights frantically working alongside a C-Level executive to help bring their PowerPoint presentation to the finish line…at the 11th hour.
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