PowerPoint Resources
Take a Peek at the Top PowerPoint Template Style of 2018
We did a little number crunching, survey taking, consulting the powers that be, and we discovered what was the most popular PowerPoint Template Style of 2018! Have a seat, take a deep breath, and emotionally prepare yourself for this reveal. It wasn't Shamrock. It...
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Webinar: Jazz Up Your Next PowerPoint With These New Styles
Our Director of Product and Design Nic Brown joined us yesterday to show off our newest and most exciting PowerPoint Styles! I know, "exciting" isn't always the word that comes to mind when you think of PowerPoint, but with our template and graphics libraries, you...
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Power Up With New PowerPoint Styles
Attention, PowerPoint users. Last week, we released 2 new PowerPoint Template Styles! Each PowerPoint Style features 20 files. For our PowerPoint Styles, we focused on data-driven graphs and charts. Rock those monthly reporting presentations! Check out the infographic...
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2018’s 10 Most Popular PowerPoint Assets (So Far)
Our PowerPoint templates are loved far and wide. It’s true. They are some of the most downloaded templates in our library! In fact, just in 2018 we’ve already had 14,000 downloads from our PowerPoint library alone. So today I want to take a look at the ones that have...
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Webinar: Wait… You Made That in PowerPoint??
Last week we brought Stacey Wilhelmsen, Senior Graphic Designer, and Thomas Reyes-Cairo, Product Production Manager, over from our template development team in a webinar discussing some slick and exciting features in PowerPoint. From using 3D assets to give a more...
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Webinar: How to Create Awesomeness with SVG Graphics
eLearning designers, rejoice! Microsoft PowerPoint now supports SVGs (scalable vector graphics). Nic Brown, Director of Product and Design returned to our webinar hot seat to show you how to make the most of this new capability. Create, import, and edit to your...
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Webinar: Using Illustrator to Create PowerPoint Assets
In this webinar our Director of Product and Design demonstrated how to create high quality and highly adjustable graphics in Adobe Illustrator and move them into PowerPoint. You can import .AI files into PowerPoint but you lose a lot of editability. For example,...
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Webinar: Get Dialed In To PowerPoint
In a webinar earlier this week Nic Brown, our Director of Product & Design, walked us through the creation of a slick looking dial in PowerPoint. This kind of a dial can be used in all kinds of PowerPoint applications such as displaying speed, volume, and tension. As...
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Branch Out with 2017’s Top Branching Scenarios
Branching scenarios are an eLearning staple—and for good reason! Scenarios are a great way to allow your learner to take a more active role in the learning. Developing your own branching scenario can feel intimidating if you’re new to eLearning development, and that’s...
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5 Reasons PowerPoint Is Better Than You Think
To most users PowerPoint is a great tool for banging out a quick presentation when a superior requires information or when a teacher assigns a country to present on. And because of the breadth AND depth of PowerPoint, it is perfectly suited for those tasks. But what...
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Getting Started with eLB Templates in PowerPoint
There is a heavy stigma associated with templates and even with PowerPoint: They are beginner tools that don’t permit advanced users to create awesomeness. While using templates (especially from eLearning Brothers) and PowerPoint can be fast and easy, it doesn’t...
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4 Advanced PowerPoint Tricks You Can’t Live Without
PowerPoint is an amazing software that permits you to present information however you want. But there are a few PowerPoint tricks, no matter how large or small, that can take your presenting up to 11. Here are 4 advanced PowerPoint tricks that you can’t live without....
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Responsive Design Tips for eLearning Courses
Nowadays the world seems to be all a-clamor over the idea of “responsive design” for eLearning. Yet, there still is a lot of confusion over what it is and how to implement it. Recently, I was privileged to lead a couple of sessions on that very topic at the eLearning...
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6 Tips for Creating An Effective PowerPoint Presentation
The saying that all PowerPoint developers should keep in mind is, “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” Almost all software development tools give you amazing features that allow you to create awesome content. But a presentation full of awesome features,...
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6 Underutilized PowerPoint Features
Because PowerPoint has been around for such a long time (almost 28 years), Microsoft has been able to create features and integrate options that allow presenters and now some eLearning professionals to create content effectively. Whether it be a UI update or a...
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New Cutout People For Your PowerPoint Presentations
If you have been following along with our blog, you will have noticed that we have been updating our Cutout People Library each month. And for all those who haven’t been following along, we have added over 12,800 cutout people this year alone! Our Cutout People...
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Preparing A PowerPoint Animation Strategy
In a world full of amazing technology and a land of unlimited possibilities, it is often difficult to know what to do, when to do it, and if you made the right decision. As a PowerPoint developer, I have asked myself these questions many times regarding animations in...
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eLearning Brothers Revamps the Free eLearning Library
We all love free stuff, especially when it can be put to good use! eLearning Brothers has always given and will continue to give out free assets that are beneficial to eLearning developers and presenters alike. Over the past few days, we at eLearning Brothers have...
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Taylor Ehlert Talks PowerPoint Zoom for #AskMeMonday
With every new update and feature that comes to PowerPoint, there is always a slew of questions following close behind. And that has been no different with the new PowerPoint Zoom feature. One of the most asked questions accompanying this feature is, “How do I use...
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Storyboarding in PowerPoint with Visual Studio
PowerPoint is known and primarily used for presentations both big and small (like middle school small) because of how easy it is to learn the basics and create awesome content fast. The simplicity, and sometimes surprising depth, of PowerPoint makes it an amazing...
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Taylor Ehlert Responds to #AskMeMonday on PowerPoint Action Buttons
A lot of questions have been asked surrounding the topic of PowerPoint Action Buttons. “What are they? How are they different than normal shapes, and why should I use them?" All of these questions are about to be answered in this week's #AskMeMonday. What Are Action...
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