Latest posts
Below are the most recent articles or resources I’ve published. If you are looking for help on a specific topics, it would best to look at the topics in my Articles archive as I have grouped my recent and best articles by topic there.
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Improving some graphs from Copyblogger’s State of Native Advertising report
I follow copyblogger.com because I find their information useful to my business. Yesterday they released a report on the state of native advertising (here is the full report). It doesn’t matter whether you know what that is (I didn’t initially). I want to explain why two of the graphs showing the results of their survey…… Continue reading
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Linking a graph in PowerPoint to the Excel data so the graph can automatically update when the Excel worksheet changes
You probably arrived at this page because you are a business professional who has to present regularly to management or executives on analysis you have done in Excel. You don’t want to have to retype a table of numbers or recreate a graph in PowerPoint. Not only is that time you don’t have, but it…… Continue reading
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City A.M. March 24, 2014
Dave’s Annoying PowerPoint survey and calculation of how much poor PowerPoint presentations cost organizations is used in this article titled “Four presentation mistakes to avoid” in City A.M. (UK) Continue reading
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Using Excel Data in a PowerPoint Presentation
Since the topic of presenting financial or operational data calculated in Excel is so popular, I put together this page to bring together my best articles and resources to help professionals use Excel data in a PowerPoint presentation. Continue reading
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3 big mistakes professionals make when presenting financial or operational data to executives
After you browse through the slides below, check out this curated collection of resources on Using Excel Data in PowerPoint Presentations. [sc:slideshare_3BigMistakes ] Continue reading
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How to automatically play a Vimeo or YouTube video full screen in a browser from a PowerPoint slide
Some vimeo.com videos have a download link that allows you to download the video as a file on your computer. If this is the case, use the normal method for inserting a local video file. YouTube videos do not have a download link (you may be able to download the video file from youtube by…… Continue reading