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12 essential PowerPoint tips

12 essential PowerPoint tips

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12 essential PowerPoint tips

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- Now we need to look at the dreaded PowerPoint. People talk about death by PowerPoint. Some people have tried other things like Prezi. I don't know if you've seen Prezi, which is pretty funky. I like Prezi. But really it's PowerPoint. It's the only game in town, and it's not going to go away any time soon, I don't think. Even if you like using Prezi, quite often when you turn up to do a talk at a conference, PowerPoint is what they are using. So how can we make PowerPoint good? Well, I've got 12 tips for PowerPoint. I'm going to zoom through them pretty quickly. Tip number one is if it's on someone else's laptop, check it. Just don't trust anybody else. If they say, no, no, I've prepared it, it's all going to be fine, check every single slide. Make sure the colors are okay, the fonts are okay. Make sure they haven't changed. Always check it. So that's the first tip. Second tip is spell check. Why would you not run the spell check? Some people don't know there's a spell check for…

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