When it comes to creating visual content to convey results, most of us think about using charts or graphs. This can sometimes include more words than necessary. However, why not consider infographics? This is what we are looking at this week. Whilst there are many ways of generating infographics, here Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Welcome to another week and another blog post. Last week, we looked at the New Accessibility Tab that Microsoft have added to PowerPoint O365. This week, we want to tell you about Inserting Video and Subtitles into PowerPoint. Throughout this post, when mentioning video, this refers to recordings made by Read more…