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Yesterday I did a rush cleanup job on a nasty deck of slides for a client, and today, I got a thank you email that said:
There is one thing I must ask you. How do you get your tables to format with such a light design (the lines of the table)? I have tried to figure out how to do this but usually end up picking one from the design menu in the tool bar because I can’t reformat the colors of the actual table lines.
So this is what I do to get the light-colored lines:
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Tagged as: Echo Swinford, Tables, Techniques
By AlexAnndra Ontra and James Ontra
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This post is part of a series on Presentation Management, and is the sixth post in this series.
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This set of serialized posts is based on original content, the Presentation Management: The New Strategy for Enterprise Content book, authored by AlexAnndra Ontra and James Ontra.
When we talk about presenters in this book, we are referring to people who want to drive action. In business, this is often the salesperson, but it really can be any leader in the company. Leaders at all levels, from middle management to the C-suite, need to motivate people to act.
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Tagged as: AlexAnndra Ontra, Geetesh Bajaj, Guest Post, James Ontra, Presentation Management, Shufflrr
Did you know that there is an unspoken fact in the presentations’ world? This fact is that nearly half, or even more, of the PowerPoint presentations, and presentations created in other programs are not going to be projected onscreen and presented in a boardroom or a conference venue, or even used in a webinar.
Really? Where did these presentations come from? The other half of all presentations created are internal business reports that contain millions of slides floating within the mail inboxes and other folders of most business, educational, and other entities.
So what is a business report presentation? It is everything your normal presentation isn’t, and business reports unabashedly flout every rule framed to create better presentations! Some examples of these rules are using less text, and respecting white space–and that happens even though you can create good business reports even after you follow all rules.
Now, before we proceed further, let me tell you that it is entirely possible to create business report slides that look good, are enjoyable to read, and use good aesthetic sense. Nancy Duarte created a simple framework within PowerPoint called SlideDocs that lets you create better business reports, but most business report slides don’t worry too much about looking good. They just need to get the job done!
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Tagged as: Business Report, PowerPoint, Presentations, Thoughts
Original content by AlexAnndra Ontra and James Ontra
Enhanced by Geetesh Bajaj
This post is part of a series on Presentation Management, and is the fifth post in this series.
Here are links to the previous posts:
This set of serialized posts is based on original content, the Presentation Management: The New Strategy for Enterprise Content book, authored by AlexAnndra Ontra and James Ontra.
Three different waves of change are merging to profoundly affect how corporations operate:
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Tagged as: AlexAnndra Ontra, Geetesh Bajaj, Guest Post, James Ontra, Presentation Management, Shufflrr
Original content by AlexAnndra Ontra and James Ontra
Enhanced by Geetesh Bajaj
This post is part of a series on Presentation Management, and is the fourth post in this series.
All posts from the Presentation Management series are listed on this page, Presentation Management: The Entire Series.
This set of serialized posts is based on original content, the Presentation Management: The New Strategy for Enterprise Content book, authored by AlexAnndra Ontra and James Ontra.
You may agree with what we say, you may disagree, or you may partly agree. Either way, we want to hear your thoughts! Please do post your comments to make this post more engaging.
After looking at tangled mess that PowerPoint weaves, and exploring the concept of presentation management and how it helps visual storytelling, let us now look more closely at how presentation management can improve your workflow, life, and help you manage your visual assets.
The new discipline of presentation management can have an enormous impact on a company.
Presentation management takes presentations from one-and-done, single files and turns them into enterprise assets deployed intelligently throughout your organization.
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