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Although these features are useful, there isn’t a whole lot of freedom when it comes to the design and position of sensitivity labels added to a PowerPoint file, so they can impact the overall design of your slides. In this post we’ll outline what you have control of and how to modify your design ...

Microsoft has now made sensitivity labels available throughout Microsoft 365 (the programs formerly known as Office 365!). This feature allows you to visually mark and electronically protect your Microsoft 365 files to make sure that they don’t fall into the wrong screens! Here we’ll take a look at ...

The selection tool is rectangular and reads horizontally, so it won’t manage well with diagonal text. You should try and keep text horizontal when taking photos and you may need to rotate images if the text isn’t straight.
Unless you have amazing handwriting, it’s going to struggle getting anything ...

Now it’s time to put the tool to the test. Open the image or photo you want to extract text from and press the Extract Text shortcut. The screen will go dark and your cursor will become a crosshair. Click and drag the window over the text you want to copy.

screenshot of the text extractor in action ...

You might be wondering why you’d need to extract text from an image…Well, if you’re creating a presentation and someone has thoughtlessly chucked in a bunch of images of slides or screenshots of data, it makes it really hard to develop a deck that’s consistently on brand, animated and updatable ...

Pointer: In Slideshow mode, hover your cursor over the Presenter bar and select Turn on the laser pointer. Clicking this button turns your cursor into a red laser pointer with a tail, so that the audience can easily see any areas that you wish to highlight.

Printing your work
To view Slides’ basic ...

Speaker notes: Speaker notes can be accessed by dragging up from the bottom of your Slides window. Hover your cursor over the horizontal line in the bar at the very bottom of your window, and it should turn into a hand icon. Click down and drag up to reveal the Speaker notes bar. Here you can type ...

Using Slideshow mode: At some point you are likely to want to practise running through your deck and will want to see what it looks like from the audience’s perspective. At BrightCarbon, we recommend always clicking through your deck in Slideshow mode at least once before presenting! For a deep dive ...

To convert from Keynote to Slides, open your Keynote, go to File in the menu bar and select Export to > PowerPoint (.pptx). In the new window, select Next > Export. From Google Drive, create a new Slides presentation, then select the File tab in the menu bar and Import Slides. You should then see a ...

Converting Google Slides to and from Microsoft PowerPoint:

Converting to and from, very straightforward with Slides – however, complications are very common. It’s worth noting that the animation functionality in particular is very different in each program, so it’s likely that some animations may ...