How do you keep the formatting of a slide you're inserting?
When you’re building PowerPoint presentations, you may need to copy slides from one PowerPoint slide deck and insert them into another. Sometimes these slides may have different templates, themes, or other formatting options. Whenever you insert slides from another presentation template, the inserted slides will default to the new presentation’s template and formatting options. In most cases, you’ll want to modify the inserted slides to the new presentation’s formatting in order to keep your slides consistent. More…
Secret sauce makes the burger and the corporate template
In a previous post, I explained why most corporate presentation templates fail to meet the needs of PowerPoint users because they are frequently created by people who don’t use PowerPoint on a regular basis. In my last article, I covered the basics of PowerPoint backgrounds and how they need to be designed in order to create an effective PowerPoint template.
If your background is designed effectively, is your corporate template ready for action? Not quite. There are a number of other important “secret sauce” considerations that go into creating a truly “usable” corporate presentation template: More…
When is your background slipping into the foreground? (c) DryIcons
In my last blog post, I discussed why most corporate presentation templates fail to meet the needs of PowerPoint users. Frequently, the people assigned to create these PowerPoint templates rarely use them, and as a result they fail to build “usable” templates.
In this article, I’ll focus on a key part of every corporate presentation template - the background. A key point I want to make is that PowerPoint templates are more than just backgrounds, but backgrounds can make or break corporate presentation templates. There are several considerations that go into designing the right background for your corporate template. More…
If you deliver presentations on behalf of any organization, you’ll probably be asked to use the dreaded “corporate template” when you build your PowerPoint presentations. If your experience has been the same as mine, you’ll have run across your own share of sloppy, impractical, or incomplete corporate presentation templates. Why are so many people saddled with ineffective corporate PowerPoint templates and frequently forced to go “rogue”? More…
If you’ve recently upgraded from PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 at your company, you may have noticed something annoying with your corporate template. In some cases, corporate presentations need to have the same text added to all presentation slides. For example, many corporate templates are designed so that copyright and confidentiality statements such as “©2008 PowerPoint Ninja - Confidential and Proprietary” appear at the bottom of each slide. More…
