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Here is a question worth sitting with: why does one of the most widely used chart types in consulting still require a workaround in PowerPoint? This tutorial walks you through a better way to create waterfall charts, using Ampler or Ampler Charts. Yes, native PowerPoint includes a basic waterfall chart option, but it falls short where it matters most: customization and waterfall chart variations. Ampler addresses all of that, and by the end of this tutorial, you will see exactly how.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Ampler, Charts, Excel, Sune Høj Kodahl, Waterfall Chart
SimpleDim brings CAD-style precision to the one tool almost everyone already uses: PowerPoint. Designed by Paul Lukehart, the add-in solves a familiar problem: how to present accurate layouts, floor plans, and spatial concepts without opening specialized engineering software. What if you could use PowerPoint instead? By letting users set scale, draw dimension-perfect shapes, measure existing drawings, and apply CAD-like commands such as arrays, offsets, mirrors, and underlays, SimpleDim turns PowerPoint into a lightweight conceptual layout environment. It’s built for consultants, operations teams, and anyone who needs clarity and accuracy without the complexity of full CAD tools.
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Tagged as: Add-in, AutoCAD, CAD, Design, Paul Lukehart, Review, SimpleDim, Slide Design
You have your presentation ready. The slides are prepared, and they include charts, tables, bullet points, and photos. You have rehearsed several times and feel comfortable with the content and flow. So, why does it feel like it’s falling a little flat?
Here is how to connect with your listeners and give your talk the energy it needs.
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Tagged as: Checklist, Claudyne Wilder, Ideas, Opinion, Presentation Skills
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ScriptAssist takes speaker notes already sitting in your PowerPoint file and builds a full presenting toolkit around them: a script you can read while looking at your camera, a review workflow that your legal, medical, or other teams can actually use, and an AI assist for when you’re staring at a blank slide. It comes from SlideSource, a team that has spent decades preparing presentations for high-stakes settings, and it goes after a problem most presenters know well: staying on script without losing eye contact.
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Tagged as: Bob Befus, Delivery, Review, ScriptAssist, SlideSource
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This tutorial walks you through creating Gantt charts in PowerPoint using Ampler or Ampler Charts. Native PowerPoint has never included a dedicated Gantt chart option, which means most users rely on makeshift workarounds. Ampler changes that with purpose-built Gantt functionality that covers everything from basic timelines to milestones, dependencies, Excel linking, and brand-consistent formatting.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Ampler, Charts, Gantt Chart, Geetesh Bajaj, Sune Høj Kodahl
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