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PowerPoint Presentations: Colour Vibration

Moving on from last weeks Creating Posters using PowerPoint, we turn our attention to Colour Vibration. This is something we find from time to time. Whilst it can look great when used appropriately, more often than not, it’s a pain in the eye. Literally. How much to you think about Read more…

By Daria Casement, 1 year21st March 2022 ago
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Creating Posters in PowerPoint

Last week, we looked at the four pillars of design in our post on Designing Student Posters. This week, we move onto creating a Poster for students using PowerPoint! From time to time, we deliver poster design training to students and different things crop up. This is one of those Read more…

By Daria Casement, 1 year14th March 2022 ago
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PowerPoint: Designing Student Posters

Last week, we looked at the MS PowerPoint Design Tab & Custom Template. This week, we move onto Poster design for students! This will be split into over two weeks and this week, we cover the design aspects for creating anything: posters, flyers, newsletters, etc. Poster Design Let’s start off Read more…

By Daria Casement, 1 year7th March 2022 ago
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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, 1 year28th 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, 1 year21st 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, 1 year31st January 2022 ago
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PowerPoint. What’s new in 2022?

Hello, welcome and happy new year! It’s now 2022 and there have been some accessibility updates to PowerPoint in Office365. We thought we’d start off the new year by checking out some of these updates which we hope will make it easier for you to create more inclusive digital content Read more…

By Daria Casement, 1 year17th January 2022 ago
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PowerPoint: Presenter View / Mode

Over the last number of weeks, we have addressed Accessibility and below you will find the previous three posts which directly relate to MS PowerPoint: Accessibility: PowerPoint Design & Output – Pt 3 Accessibility: PowerPoint Design & Output – Pt 2 Accessibility: PowerPoint Design & Output – Pt 1 Whilst Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years15th March 2021 ago
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Accessibility: PowerPoint Design & Output – Pt 3

This is the third in the series of MS PowerPoint: Design and Output, accessibility and good practices. In MS PowerPoint, we have already looked at: Text standards Tables, video and audio This week, we want to consider adding speakers notes in PowerPoint and the Accessibility Checker. Let’s get started! What Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years8th March 2021 ago
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Accessibility: PowerPoint Design & Output – 2

Good afternoon and we hope you’re well. Last week, Digiknow looked at best practices in design from an MS PowerPoint viewpoint and explained the reasons behind each decision with design and accessibility in mind. We looked at: text font type, space, amount and alignment 5/5/5 rule colour and contrast layout Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years1st March 2021 ago

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