I made a postcard with some of my top PowerPoint tips and an iOS favourite. Plus the back has some nifty keyboard shortcuts!
Top 7 PowerPoint Tips: Postcard
Monthly Archives: February 2016
PowerPoint: Use the Grey Space
The grey space around your PowerPoint slide is a useful area.
You can put it to work in a couple of ways:
- Park items you’re not working with but still want to have on hand, like an image that you want to keep in the file for use later.
- Put instructions for other users here.
PowerPoint: Make it Fit
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.)
Social Media tips – free photo resources
- Library and Archives Canada –Image Search
- New York Public Library – Search Page
- The Rijkmuseum in Amerstdam has digitized its collection. All of its works are free to use. Its’ policy “If you use our images for publication, then we request that you acknowledge the source (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). We would also like to receive a copy of the publication for our library.”
- Try the Creative Commons search tool.
- This post from Hootsuite offers a list of 20 different Free Stock Photo websites. The one I like the best is Pexels, which is where I found this posts’ featured image.
- University of Alberta Peel Image search.
Keyboard Shortcuts in IOS: Postcard
I made a postcard talking about some nifty keyboard shortcuts on IOS devices and Custom Lists in Excel. And the back has some cool keyboard shortcuts too!
PowerPoint: Save a Slide as a JPG
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.