Simple PowerPoint Menus - a tutorial

We get a lot of requests about how to create a menu in PowerPoint.

It is easy to create menus in PowerPoint. It is just a question of inserting hyperlinks onto objects to help with the navigation. In this tutorial we show you how to do it. We also include a downloadable PowerPoint file that contains an example as well as the tutorial. (Read more…)

Apple launches iWork 8 with Keynote update

Keynote 8

PowerPoint’s alter ego Keynote has been updated in Apple’s recent revamp of its iWork Software. Since there is still no native version of PowerPoint for Intel Macs, and since Microsoft’s Office 2004 runs like an injured snail on the new Macs under Rosetta, iWork and particularly Keynote may be worth considering for your presentations. (Read more…)

Transport PowerPoint templates

Some more templates for you. This time we have commissioned Kathy from CTS to design some Transport PowerPoint templates based on photos taken by our editor Jonty Pearce.

Here are six new additions to our range of free business PowerPoint templates. The templates contain complementary colour schemes and some example layouts and text, all of which are fully editable.

train template

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Free technology icons and tutorial

Free icons of everyday gadgets

We’ve been hard at work at Presentation Helper and created some technology-based icons for you to download as either PowerPoint slides or individual png files. The files include images of mp3 players, mobile phones, lcd screens and other day-to-day gadgets. These images have many uses; for example they could be used to illustrate modern technology within a slide presentation or as icons for web sites.

Would you like to achieve the reflection effect we have created for the above image? (Read more…)

Retirement speech template - fill in the blanks

Fill in the blanks… Retirement speech

Ladies and gentlemen, firstly I would like to say a massive thank-you to all of you for joining me at this great retirement party.

When I joined the company… (Say when you joined the company, how you felt about joining the company and what you aimed to achieve when you started. Say how the years have been for you at the company, what you have and haven’t liked, and what it has been like to see so many things come and go around you, for example staff, and changes to daily tasks.) (Read more…)

Moon Template

A simple moon PowerPoint template and one that was a lot of fun to make.

I took the photo using a Canon EOS300D digital camera. I tried initially to take the picture with a standard lens but (Read more…)

Presentation Helper featured on the BBC

Presentation Helper’s editor Jonty Pearce has today been featured on BBC Radio Lancashire’s Ted Robbins show.

Jonty was talking with Ted about how to give a best man speech. (Read more…)

Best man’s speech

Ladies, Gentlemen, and most importantly, the bridesmaid who keeps giving me the eye, I would like to say a few words. (Winks at the bridesmaid.) (Read more…)

How to write a Best Man’s Speech

Writing a best man’s speech is easier than you may think. In this short ‘manual’, if you like, I will take you through all you need to write a great best man’s speech.

[If you are really pressed for time click on our “fill-in-the-blanks Best Man Speech Example”]

When I write a best man’s speech, I always picture a close friend with his partner. Obviously you will have these people in mind. The first thing I do is make a list of things that I need to include, these are

• Dates - how long have they been together, how long have they known each other? (Read more…)
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Best Man’s Speech Example

Pushed for time and need to put together your best man speech?

Don’t worry here is an example that Ryan has written for you. All you need to do is to fill in the blanks.

When Tom asked me to be his best man, at first I was over the moon, firstly that he was going to marry the woman that he loves, and secondly that he had asked me to be his best man. Then a few pints later, it dawned on me. The speech. Choking on my beer at the realisation that I would have to stand up and talk in front of his family and closest friends, I started shaking and told him that I didn’t think that I could do it. Then he reassured me, he said, “all you have got to do is stand up, look a little idiotic, tell a few jokes and be confident.” Taking this on board, here I am. (Read more…)