Chart concept — the final presentation slide

It’s always difficult to leave the audience with a good punch line (chart). Things…

Professional presentation design — impossible skill mix

A good presentation involves good substance,a good presenter, and finally good supporting graphics. Many people are in the business of presentation design, but it is hard to find people that combine all skills under one roof.

Photo composition rules applied to PowerPoint

A presentation slide is like a photo, or like a painting: the basic rules of composition apply.

• Rule of thirds. Put your screen guides so that they divide the page in 3-s, creating a 3x3 box of 9 rectangles. Place and align…

The 19 buttons you need in your PowerPoint toolbar

The PowerPoint 2007 ribbon is nice, but for certain commands that you need to access all the time I miss the good old PowerPoint 2003 toolbar. The quick access toolbar in the very top of the PPT window is your solution. Click the little…

Why write a heavy business plan that nobody reads?

Many of my start-up clients that go into a fund raising round want to develop a “heavy” (i.e., many pages) business plan in reality is nothing more than expanding a 30-page PowerPoint presentation into 100 pages of full text. “The potential…