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Looking for a tutorial to create a customized envelope for your PowerPoint presentation? Halt! Check our easy to follow steps to make a creative envelope like the one shown below in PowerPoint 2013:   Creatively designed Envelopes you may like Envelopes The Final Image-    Why create an envelope in first place? To showcase awesome […]

This post is second in the series of “Icons are the new bullet points”. Part 1 covered first 20 industries in alphabetical order A to E and their corresponding icons. Part 2 covers the remaining industries and their slides designed using icons.   All those who read our Icons are the new bullet points Part […]

This post summarizes the importance of using icons in presentation slides. Icons add visual appeal and make an otherwise text-heavy slide stand out. It applies to all presentation topics and industries. This post covers all industries starting from alphabet A to alphabet E and shows their respective icons. Locate your industry below and see how icons […]

PowerPoint 2013 has some amazing features that are no less than those offered by Photoshop and other image editing softwares. One such effect that I love the most personally is the ‘Merge Shapes’ feature that lets you create breathtaking effects.   One such effect (we gave it away in the the banner image of this […]

“Now at our studios we don’t write our stories, we DRAW them.” Walt Disney   Storyboards, one of the essential tools in making of animated movies, happens to be one of the most neglected practices in designing a PowerPoint presentation. The most common reason could be that many are not aware of this technique. If […]

If you’re a preacher, you know very well that delivering a sermon is a task of great responsibility. Your sermon can change someone’s life or give them the inspiration they need to renew their faith in God and themselves.   You cannot be complacent at all in such a situation. You have to read scriptures, […]

Many presenters are using images horribly in their presentations!   From pixelated visuals to copyright images with watermarks clearly visible on them to many other disasters, presenters are coming up with unique ways to kill all the fun. Are you guilty of poor selection of visuals? Are your experiments at creating visual slides turning into […]

UPDATE: The highlight picture effect explained in this article was created in PowerPoint 2013. Users of PowerPoint 2010 have to customize their PowerPoint Ribbon to use this hack. Please see the steps given at the end of this article to create this effect in PowerPoint 2010.    There are many times when you need to […]

So you are a Fortune 500 company? Or a leader in your industry? Magazines have featured you, you have an annual turnover of 5000 million dollars, you are a start-up success, have 500k following on social media...that’s all great. But it doesn’t show through your PowerPoint presentation sadly.   99 out of 100 company presentations […]

“To make something special you just have to believe it’s special.”   Wow. One inspiring quote can change your life and this one has that power. It comes from one of my favorite movies “Kung Fu Panda”- a hilarious, animated movie about a big, fat panda discovering his destiny and beating all odds to emerge the […]