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How to compress PowerPoint presentations and reduce picture file size

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Including high-quality images and videos often adds hugely to audience engagement, but it also adds file size. Adding to your file size means that your presentation is likely to sit on the unfriendly size of email etiquette, but it also means your PowerPoint will run a lot slower (and it may crash – see this article for more on that ).

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How to update PowerPoint preview thumbnail icons

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Have you ever noticed the PowerPoint icons that show up on your desktop or inside Windows File Explorer? Sometimes the default application icon is shown and sometimes you see a PowerPoint preview thumbnail of a slide from your presentation. Default PowerPoint application icons. Refreshing the preview image.

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How to print multiple slides on one page

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Sometimes when you’re presenting, it’s useful to give people handouts to annotate notes on the slides and jot down a few thoughts while you’re speaking. A good way to do this is to print multiple slides on one page, so they’re not dealing with reams of paper. What’s the secret for how to print multiple slides on one page?

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Newbies: More PowerPoint Hacks for Your Cp Project: Using PowerPoint Template Backgrounds in Your Captivate Master Slides

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I like using the PowerPoint backgrounds in my Cp projects. I don’t need the PowerPoint master slides, just the background image. Importing that PowerPoint background into my Captivate master slide applies the background to my title, content, quizzing, and all the other slides in the master slide series.

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5 presentation resolutions for 2024 (with BrightSlide!)

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Don’t worry our free PowerPoint design and productivity add-in BrightSlide will make keeping these new year’s resolutions a breeze! Present with animations When people hear ‘PowerPoint animations’ I get the suspicion that they imagine something like this: Dated animations that add nothing to the story and are tricky to present.

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PowerPoint 2007 & 2010: Save a Presentation with Embedded Fonts

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George    When creating PowerPoint presentations and moving them from one computer to another, one area of concern is fonts. the Mac versions of PowerPoint can't embed fonts, nor can they use fonts embedded in a PC-born presentation. Open your presentation in PowerPoint.   Good chance? . 

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TechSmith Camtasia: Reducing the Size of Video Output

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

She wanted to know some best practices for reducing the size of exported Camtasia projects. To begin, TechSmith says that "larger videos (in resolution) will dramatically increase file size. Limit your video size to no larger than 1280 pixels (width) by 720 (height)." That is an excellent question!