What you should have now is an idea or sketch of everything that’s going to happen on your slide to tell the story. You ‘just’ need to bring it to life and share your ideas. That’s not always an easy task, but if you check out this post by my colleague Bethany on some practical tips to achieve good presentation design, this post on some of our favorite websites for free design resources, and this one on presentation design in general, you’ll have a good head start. And of course the various PowerPoint tutorials and master classes are a wealth of information to help you out.
And if you’d like to see some examples of presentations russian phone number that we’ve developed using these ideas, and then created in PowerPoint, you can draw inspiration from our presentation portfolio, showing you that pretty much anything is possible in PowerPoint.
Take it from those who live and breathe presentations, these unhealthy presentation creation habits aren’t doing your decks any good!
On behalf of anyone who might need to use your content in the future, we beg you not to make a habit of pasting text or graphs as images! Why? Let me tell you:
It makes the content impossible to edit. If a graph needs to be updated with a few new figures, you have to start from scratch.
If the images get compressed at any point, they can end up looking blurry (and ugly) and be difficult to read.
You can’t update the colours to match a new design style.
And finally, the content can’t be animated properly, meaning it’s harder to present and less engaging for your audience. Check out this blog post on animating graphs in PowerPoint to see what we mean!
A note on charts specifically: When you paste a chart from Excel you have the option to Link or Embed. Link means that the data stays in your Excel file and only people with that Excel file will be able to access the underlying data. Embed means your entire Excel workbook is pasted into your PowerPoint, so anyone can access all the data. The latter option is good for wider editability, but there are security risks, so choose wisely.