TLC Christmas PowerPoint Animation 2017!
Our team here at TLC Creative Services hopes everyone has a fantastic Christmas! As with years past, our design team has had some fun with PowerPoint animation for Christmas!
Troy @ TLC
New Year’s Template
2017 is almost over, here is a 2018 New Year’s Template (free!) to get things started for the new year!
Download free 16×9 PowerPoint template HERE.
Troy @ TLC
The Presentation Podcast Episode #44 Released Today!
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #44 – Year-End Thoughts.
The 24th episode of The Presentation Podcast is the final conversation of 2017! Troy, Nolan and Sandy end the year with a great conversation about the big things that influenced their design, studios, and presentation software use this past year.
The Presentation Podcast on Spotify!
Spotify has been slowly, and selectively, adding podcasts to its library. We are very excited, because our very own podcast, The Presentation Podcast is now available on Spotify! Check us out on Spotify here.
Adobe Experts Productivity Tips
Lori and I were featured in a great PowerPoint Productivity Tips list (Lori tip #16, Troy tip #18) a few months ago, which is something definitely worth reading (see blog post with link to full article here). Recently, Paul at Acuity Training in the UK sent me a link to an Adobe Experts Productivity Tips article they posted, and it has some great power user tips and hacks, definitely worth bookmarking. Full article here.
Troy @ TLC
Want A Perfect PowerPoint Circle, Square, Triangle?
Sometimes just knowing a hack can save a lot of time. So this is one of those tips included in our TLC Creative PowerPoint training programs where someone always exclaims “Really!!” The tip is how to immediately add a perfect shape (same on all sides), ie. a circle, square or triangle. The solution is so simple, there is nothing complex to forget. Ready,
Click the desired shape in the shapes gallery
Click on the slide. Note: just a simple click, no click and drag, no modifier keys, nothing, just click on the slide.
Done! A perfect, equal sided, square, circle, triangle, etc. is added to the slide
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And the shortcut to the shortcut!
Hold down the CTRL key and click on desired shape in the shapes gallery
Perfect symmetrical shape is automatically added to the slide!
Troy @ TLC
The Presentation Podcast Episode #43 Released Today!
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #43 – “O365 Features We Use.”
Office 365 is Microsoft’s subscription based software and service that goes beyond the Office apps by encompassing SharePoint, Teams, Groups, Unified Communications with Skype and much more. Troy, Sandy and Nolan talk about they each use Office 365 for their studios and the ‘secrets’ to making the most of it.