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The Logo Detective: four ways to find a brand logo

If you want to put a company logo in your deck, make sure it’s a good quality one. Easier said than done — here’s 4 ways to hunt them down

Apr 25

Apr 25

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SHARPN | Visual Comms

Headlines, not straplines

Don’t be tempted to bury the ‘so what’ of your slide at the bottom of the page. There is a better way.

Apr 23

A slide which says Insightful headline slide titles provide helpful signposting, whereas straplines have less impact

Apr 23

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Decks over docs

Why people are moving from Word to PowerPoint — and how to do it well

Apr 23

Cartoon of an outline of a body o the floor, impaled by a PowerPoint slide and surrounded by spattered blood

Apr 23

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The Curse of Knowledge

Why it’s your fault when other people don’t get it. And how to easily fix that.

Apr 23

Old photo of a space alien with a huge head

Apr 23

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How to create a great logo cloud

How to showcase client logos without it looking really messy

Apr 23

Various logos that roughly form a cloud shape

Apr 23

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Double act: save time with two windows

Need to align PowerPoint content in two different places in your deck? Don’t keep paging up and down — open a second window.

Feb 11

Article title plus a graphical depiction of two windows each with a PowerPoint icon, numbered 1 and 2

Feb 11

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How to fix PowerPoint slide numbers

What to do with those frisky slide numbers when they won’t behave

Jan 26

Article title plus image of a hammer nailing the page numbers into place

Jan 26

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How to create a funnel diagram quickly

Funnel diagrams are useful — and much easier to create than you might think

Jan 26

Article title plus a GIF of a funnel animating in layer by layer

Jan 26

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SHARPN | Visual Comms

How to fix PowerPoint slide numbers

What to do with those naughty slide numbers when they won’t behave…

Nov 14, 2023

How to fix PowerPoint slide numbers

Nov 14, 2023

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How to format better tables in PowerPoint

Tables in PowerPoint are great, but don’t overdo the formatting. Here’s our go-to style.

Nov 14, 2023

The same table in two styles. The first is a standard PowerPoint style. The second is our preferred styling.

Nov 14, 2023

Steve Rowland

Steve Rowland

Visual comms expert | Crisp, clear documents for critical situations | Trainer & coach | SHARPN: Cutting through complexity | 🔗www.sharpn.co.uk

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