Tips for Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Other Applications

Microsoft PowerPoint

PowerPoint is the standard presentation graphics application in use. Like it or hate it, it makes sense to develop at least a basic proficiency with it. Better yet, just a little bit of thought can turn your PowerPoint document from a boring text document to something that actually tells a compelling story. In this section, I'll be taking lessons from my consulting days regarding the writing and structuring of compelling documents.

Posted Tutorials and Articles

1. Simple intro to PowerPoint menus and work panes
2. Making custom "art" in PowerPoint
3. Structure of a PowerPoint Page
4. Inserting Excel Tables in PowerPoint
5. Saving PowerPoint Tables as Graphical Images
6. Charting in PowerPoint
7. Dynamically Linking Data from Excel
8. Creating Waterfall Charts in PowerPoint
9. Comparative Series Charts in PowerPoint
10. AutoFormat in PowerPoint
11. Formatting Org Charts in PowerPoint