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Bruce Gabrielle

• Your top 10 favorite PowerPoint posts of 2012

  9 Jan 2013

  In 2012, you were doing more than adding data to slides--you really put PowerPoint to work to create visual representations of your hard work, bright ideas, and personal style. Charts, themes, animations, color-matching, and tips for presenters were just some of your favorite topics for polishing your...
• Print white lines in PowerPoint (video)

  30 Nov 2011

  This is the thirteenth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . It's 10:57am and you're rushing to print the handouts for that important executive meeting at 11. But what's this? Some of your slides, which...
• Create shapes with tables inside (video)

  19 Oct 2011

  This is the twelfth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Using SmartArt graphics , you can create a pyramid with text rows. But what if you want an upside down triangle, or a circle, or a hexagon instead...
• Add polish to your slides with 3 alignment tools (video)

  14 Sep 2011

  This is the eleventh in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . The easiest way to make sure your slides look professional is to pay attention to alignment. And PowerPoint has 3 great tools ( Gridlines , Alignment...
• Create gorgeous textured slide backgrounds (video)

  17 Aug 2011

  This is the tenth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Tired of the same old slide templates? Why not create your own textured slide backgrounds instead? It's easy and fun! Here's how. Here are some other...
• Create a Polaroid photo effect (video)

  9 Jun 2011

  This is the ninth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Have you ever wanted the pictures in your slide presentation to look like a Polaroid photo? Now you can. Here's how to easily create that effect using...
• Create sexy curved lines in your slides (video)

  18 May 2011

  This is the eighth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Sometimes you want the sweeping, dramatic, and sexy look of curved lines in your PowerPoint slides. But how? Here's an easy way, using Edit Points...
• Choose slide colors like a pro (video)

  25 Apr 2011

  This is the seventh in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Here's a quick way to choose colors so your PowerPoint slides will look more professional, even if you're not a graphic designer. -- Bruce Gabrielle
• Create titled slides in seconds (video)

  15 Apr 2011

  This is the sixth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Great magicians can make things appear before your very eyes. Now it's your turn to be magical, by creating dozens of titled slides in PowerPoint...
• Create a table with nifty rounded corners (video)

  7 Apr 2011

  This is the fifth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Tables with rounded corners are friendlier, more contemporary, more Web 2.0. But you can't create them automatically. Here's how you can achieve this...
• Choose the perfect color for any slide with Color Cop (video)

  24 Mar 2011

  This is the fourth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger, Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Today Bruce shows how you can get exact color matches using this neat (and free!) software to pick the perfect color for any slide. You can download...
• 101 PowerPoint tips for business managers

  23 Mar 2011

  Each numbered item below is a link to one in a series of quick how-to videos on creating presentations by Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . As individual tips are posted to the PowerPoint blog , we'll collect them here so you can easily refer to them. Turn clip art into custom icons (video...
• Add a slide title to a cluttered background (video)

  8 Mar 2011

  This is the third in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Bruce's second tip showed how to quickly create custom silhouettes using free pictures , and his first was about turning clip art into custom icons...