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Learn to Develop & Design Presentations: The 2017 Presentation Summit
Learn to Develop & Design Presentations: The 2017 Presentation Summit One thing we love about the annual Presentation Summit is that it's a meeting of minds from all corners of the presentation industry. From production to design to delivery, there are experts in every facet of the presentation space at the Summit. While we focus on [...]
The Presentation Summit: A Presentation Consulting Conference
The Presentation Summit:A Presentation Consulting ConferenceIrma tried to throw a wrench in our plans, but nothing can keep us from the Summit!On September 24-27, the annual Presentation Summit will be held in Clearwater Beach, FL. This is the ONLY presentation specific conference available. Many companies in the presentation consulting space, including SlideRabbit, will be attending. [...]
Step Up Your PowerPoint Design Game with Office 365’s New Icon Library
Step Up Your PowerPoint Design Game with Office 365's New Icon Library Icons are a great PowerPoint design tool. They can replace text on slides, increase visual interest, and create memory-enhancing connections between ideas. All of SlideRabbit's icons are custom designed. Our ever-growing icon library includes thousands of icons organized into categories and created in [...]
Determine the Screen Size Before Designing PowerPoint Presentations
Determine the Screen Size Before Designing PowerPoint Presentations Prior to designing PowerPoint presentations (or handing them off to SlideRabbit to design for you), figure out the screen size that you will be presenting on. Why is this so important? Taking this extra step will keep you from wasting time and stressing over changing the screen [...]
Create Presentation Graphics With Shape Merge Tools
Create Presentation Graphics With Shape Merge Tools Here at SlideRabbit we hear a lot of complaints about PowerPoint being a substandard design tool. In reality, there is much more functionality available than the typical user knows. The Merge Shapes toolset is a great example of one hidden gem. There are a wide range of standard [...]
Creating Cohesive PowerPoint Slide Designs With Master Slides
Creating Cohesive PowerPoint Slide Designs with Master Slides Professional slide designers use a consistent theme throughout a presentation. Without cohesive PowerPoint slide designs, presentations can look messy and amateurish. Need easy help keeping your slides consistent? Use Master Slides. We have touched on the basic functionalities of the Slide Master in the past; below we will [...]
Use the Notes Layout to improve Your Professional PowerPoint Presentation
Use the Notes Layout to Improve Your Professional PowerPoint Presentation As we mentioned in our latest post, presentation slides should contain only crucial text. Audiences cannot listen and read at the same time, and our brains default to reading. If there is too much text on your slides, you will quickly lose your audience. [...]
3 Ways to Reduce Text for Effective PowerPoint Presentations
3 Ways to Reduce Text for Effective PowerPoint Presentations The easiest way to create effective PowerPoint presentations is to remove all of the "blah blah" from your slides. Below are 3 helpful word eliminating strategies. Split up the content onto multiple slides Rule of thumb - a slide should only contain one piece of information [...]
Six PowerPoint Designs For Six Bullets
Six PowerPoint Designs For Six Bullets We've outlined four alternatives to bullets in a previous SlideRabbit post. But what happens when the content truly is best as blurbs of text? Here's what the boring bullets look like: But can we find something with a little more style? A huge variety of PowerPoint designs can be used [...]
PowerPoint Presentations: Quick Tips for Better Tables
PowerPoint Presentations: Quick Tips for Better Tables This is the last in a series of posts where we covered quick tips for improving common chart types for great PowerPoint presentations. Click for Bar Charts, Pie Charts and Line Graphs. Communicating and sharing data may be the most common use for internal slides. Whether pulled in from Excel or built in the [...]
