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Helping you design better PowerPoint presentations


A semi-transparent background shading greatly improves the readability of chart titles. See how to do it here.

If you are not running PowerPoint 2010 (review), then the 2nd line of a bullet point will always come out wrong. Here is how to fix it.

Waterfall charts can X-ray a complicated story. Here is an explanation about the technicalities of creating one in PowerPoint, here is an example of an application.

When Frankensteining a deck (i.e., stitching a new presentation together from old slides), there is nothing more annoying then slide formats that go crazy when pasting in slides. Here is a trick to avoid this.

One of the best-kept secrets of PowerPoint is the selection pane, that allows you to remove overlapping objects from a slide temporarily to make it easier to edit layers. Details here in a previous post.

PowerPoint makes it possible to morph text in a circle, read the details here in this earlier post.

Over the next few weeks I will be spending more time with my family, and less online (similar to what I guess many of my readers will do). Posting frequency will drop, and I will be re-posting some earlier post that I think could be useful for readers that have only joined this community recently.

Insuline Medical is a medical device company that recently IPO-ed on the Tel Aviv stock exchange. Below is the company presentation I designed for potential investors. The challenge was that the audience of this presentation did not consist of venture capitalists with a deep specialization in medical technology, rather the content had to be adjusted to an institutional investor targeting the broader stock market.

These little annoyances in presentation design, the word "management" is one of them. You need it very often, it is relatively long, and it does not look good/readable when hyphenated. How many slides got a 2nd best design because of this word...

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