by stephy | Mar 8, 2026 | PowerPoint, Presentation
If you’ve already learned how to make a vertical lollipop chart, you might think, “Cool. I’ll just rotate it 90 degrees.” Nope. You can’t rotate charts in PowerPoint. (I know, it’s incredibly silly.) So we build the horizontal version differently. This one uses...
by stephy | Mar 1, 2026 | PowerPoint, Presentation
The “liquid glass” effect is everywhere right now — frosted panels, soft blur, subtle highlights that look like light is hitting curved glass. PowerPoint doesn’t have a “blur background” button but we can fake it. This effect works because PowerPoint allows you...
by stephy | Feb 24, 2026 | Google Slides, PowerPoint, Presentation, tutorial
So you’ve got a PowerPoint file… but you need it in Google Slides. Maybe your team lives in Google Workspace. Maybe you need real-time collaboration. Maybe you’re just trying to survive. The good news: converting a PowerPoint to Google Slides is easy. The bad news:...
by stephy | Feb 17, 2026 | PowerPoint, Presentation, tutorial
PowerPoint isn’t just for rectangles and sad little circles. Hidden inside it is a set of tools that lets you build completely custom shapes by combining two (or more) shapes together — kind of like “pathfinder” in Illustrator. PowerPoint calls these the Shape...
by stephy | Feb 10, 2026 | PowerPoint, Presentation, tutorial
If your first instinct when you have data is to insert a pie chart…don’t worry. You’re not alone. But pie charts are almost never the best choice, especially when you have more than 3 data points. They’re hard to compare, hard to read, and they make your audience work...
by stephy | Feb 3, 2026 | PowerPoint, Presentation, tutorial
If you’ve ever used Photoshop, Illustrator, or Canva, you might be familiar with clipping paths or clipping masks — basically, making an image fit inside a shape. PowerPoint can do this too… it just doesn’t call it clipping paths because PowerPoint likes to be...
by stephy | Jan 27, 2026 | PowerPoint, Presentation, tutorial
PowerPoint can do a lot of things. Turning text into outlines — like Illustrator “Create Outlines” — is not one of them. So if you want text that becomes a design element (not editable text), you have to use a workaround. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to convert...
by stephy | Jan 20, 2026 | PowerPoint, tutorial, Uncategorized
Ever added page numbers in PowerPoint, clicked Apply to All, and then… nothing happened? Congrats. You’ve just encountered one of PowerPoint’s most common (and most annoying) “features.” In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to: Add slide numbers (page numbers) and...
by stephy | Apr 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
What if I told you that almost all websites and web applications are not 508-compliant? The 2023 WebAim Million annual evaluation reports that 97.4% of the top 1 million websites are not ADA-compliant. Imagine logging onto a website or app and being unable to access...
by stephy | Apr 20, 2024 | Salesforce, UX
If Salesforce had to choose a descriptor for its relationship with page layouts, it would be, “It’s complicated.“ Have you ever built something in the latest version of [insert software name here] and then handed it off to a client only to discover they can’t open it...
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