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PowerPoint: Design Tab and Custom Templates

Can you believe it’s Monday again? We hope you enjoyed last weeks blog post on Aligning Content in MS PowerPoint. This week, we continue with some practices in PowerPoint and how to improve them in relation to Slide Design and Custom Templates. Let’s get started! How NOT to build a Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years28th February 2022 ago
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PowerPoint – Aligning Content

Moving on from last week’s topic of Basic Image Manipulation, this week we look at aligning content to improve visual aesthetics within PowerPoint. Let’s get started! Inserting icons In PowerPoint O365, icons are an in-built offering. Go to the Insert tab and choose Icons: Single or multiple icons can be Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years21st February 2022 ago
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PowerPoint – Basic Image Manipulation

Thanks for joining us again. In last week’s blog post, we looked at how to size, position and crop images within PowerPoint. This week, we look at some of the basic image manipulation features which are available. At this point, let’s assume your PowerPoint is already populated with text and Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years14th February 2022 ago
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PowerPoint: Size, Position and Cropping

Sticking with the theme of images in PowerPoint, we move on from last weeks Image Considerations post to this weeks topic of Sizing, Positioning and Cropping images. We’ll cover as much as we can and make it useful. Let’s get started! Inserting visual content By visual content, we mean photos, Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years7th February 2022 ago
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PowerPoint: Image Considerations

Thanks for joining us again. Last week, we covered how to insert video and subtitles into PowerPoint. We encourage you to do this with caution as there’s many things to consider, i.e., how and where shared, file sizes, etc. Moving on. This week, we want to look at images within Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years31st January 2022 ago
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Best practices in MS Stream

It’s been a busy summer for blogging but we’re back to weekly blogs. Over the month of July, we did a Canvas blog-a-thon (blogging Monday to Friday) for the whole month. It’s our intention to slow it down a bit over August and share some best practices when using the Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years2nd August 2021 ago
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Get your story straight with Reedsy Book Editor

Last Friday, we looked at Plottr for those interested in creative writing and we continue with another App this week, again for creative writers, authors and storytellers. Here’s what Tony McGovern has to tell us about Reedsy Book Editor. What is Reedsy Book Editor? Founded by Emmanuel Nataf, Ricardo Fayet, Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years28th May 2021 ago
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Structure your stories with Plottr

Last week, we got an overview of Grammarly and how it helps us improve spelling, grammar and our writing overall. Let us ask: have you ever thought about creative writing? This week, we asked Tony McGovern to review Plottr as a writing tool for authors and here’s what Tony had Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years21st May 2021 ago
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Hacking Accessibility: Colour

Last week, we covered accessibility and audio for hearing and hearing impaired audience members. We distinguished between closed captions and subtitles and when transcripts should be used. This post can be viewed here: Hacking Accessibility: Audio. In our post on January 25th, Hacking Accessibility: Visual Information, we looked at ALT Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years15th February 2021 ago
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Hacking Accessibility: Text

In our previous post, we looked at mindfulness tips to help with using digital tools, screen and digital fatigue. Over the next number of weeks, we will be revisiting accessibility and breaking it down per area: Text Visual information Video Audio Colour, and Design and Output Everything that will be Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years18th January 2021 ago

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