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Organise your PowerPoint Animations!

Posted on30/09/201618/02/2019

  So how do you keep track of all those complex animations you’ve just applied? After all, when you realise you can animate everything – things can get a bit hard to follow! For example, a slide like this that has multiple images of devices Read More …

CategoriesDesign, Office 365, PowerPointTagsAnimation, Design, PowerPoint, presentation

Why you need a cartoonist!

Posted on28/09/201618/02/2019

Stock imagery is ok really, but the problem is everyone is using it. (You know the thing, pictures of attractive young people wearing suits who don’t really look all that realistic!) Using stock imagery is easy, right? (And getting quite expensive by the way). However, Read More …

CategoriesDesign, IdeasTagsCartoons, presentation

Fonts, glorious fonts!!!

Posted on06/09/201618/02/2019

I love a bit of typography… Fonts can give your work the edge it needs to move away from the average. In this example, I’ve used a similar font to Facebook to fit in with the social media theme of this presentation… Here, we have a Read More …

CategoriesDesign, Ideas, ProductionTagsconference, Design, font

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Embedding a Captivate demo in SharePoint

Posted on04/08/201618/02/2019

SharePoint is a really great platform for training materials in a larger organisation. It’s easy to upload printable materials (in PDF format) and e-learning content as well. But SharePoint pages can be a bit dull, especially if the organisation has strict branding rules or some Read More …

CategoriesDesign, E-learning, SharePointTagsAdobe Captivate, Animation, Captivate, interactive, SharePoint

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Using the “kiosk” presentation

Posted on28/07/201618/02/2019

A kiosk presentation is very useful when you need a series of PowerPoint slides to repeat around over and over again. Typically, you might use them at a conference stand, sales stand or in any situation where you need messages to repeat to an audience Read More …

CategoriesDesign, PowerPoint, PresentationsTagsconference, kiosk, PowerPoint, presentation

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Using quality screenshots

Posted on24/07/201618/02/2019

Whenever you’re creating training materials on IT systems, the quality of your screenshots is super important. Here are some hints and tips to make the most of screenshots: They need to be 100% size Don’t squash or squeeze them. Don’t shrink them or enlarge them. Make Read More …

CategoriesDesign, Production, TipsTagsquality, screenshots, snagit

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