I made a postcard with some of my top PowerPoint tips and an iOS favourite. Plus the back has some nifty keyboard shortcuts!

The grey space around your PowerPoint slide is a useful area.
You can put it to work in a couple of ways:
I’ve mentioned it before, but PowerPoint can be a handy graphic editing tool. Especially when you want to combine pictures and text. The question is; how do you get perfectly sized pictures every time?
Most people don’t play with the Page Setup options other than to swap their slides between a 4:3/16:9 ratio. However you can input your own custom dimensions.
Go to the Design ribbon and open the Page Setup dialog box. The last choice in the Slides sized for drop down is Custom. Once this is selected you can input your own dimensions (within limits). To create the Twitter header photo template, I researched the dimensions of a Twitter header photo (500px by 1500px). Then I used this website to convert the pixel measurement to centimeters. The website also converts to inches, if that is your preferred measurement.
Now I can easily size my photos for Twitter! (Or Facebook, or Pinterest etc.)
Do you like those inspiring combinations of words and pictures you see on many social media sites?
You can use PowerPoint to combine pictures and words and then use the Save As command. Select the JPG type. Perfect for uploading to your social media feeds. Here’s a link to the PowerPoint template sized for Twitter pictures I used to create the above sized for Twitter pictures I used to create the picture above. You are welcome to download and use it.
Also, here’s a link to the image search page at the Library and Archives Canada. And for my fellow book nerds – quotes about reading.