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PowerPoint – add additional text, formatting and your logo to audience handouts

sharyn baines

Audience hand-outs can easily be printed directly from PowerPoint simply by navigating to the File tab and then to Print. From the Settings options you can change from printing “Full Page Slides” to Handouts. From the Handouts gallery you can choose the layout required.

To add the date, page numbering and additional text click the Edit Header & Footer link at the very bottom of the ‘Print Settings’ panel. This option is great if you want to include small bits of text on all hand-out pages and don’t need to include a cover page, additional paragraphs of info or even your company logo. Read more

Do your documents reflect well on your organisation?

Most of us have used a template in the past to create a presentation or start a document, and many of us are guilty of reusing the last great version of a document as a starting point instead of locating and using a template.  This pragmatic approach helps to avoid wheel reinvention and utilises the efforts of the clever person who created the file in the first place – however, the problem with reusing a last good version versus using a template is that your new file takes on any issues that existed in the original doc, and you could very likely be using out of date branding, terminology and styles.

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Prepare your business for Office 365

If you’re planning to move to Office 365, here are some things to consider that’ll help you prepare your business for life in the cloud. Read more

Don’t be fooled – protecting isn’t bullet-proof

sharyn bainesWhen I’m asked to teach a class on how to restrict editing within a document, the first 5 minutes of my instruction is usually spent explaining that protecting isn’t bullet-proof.

Why do I do this?  Because I have met so many people who assume that restricting the editing of a document by adding a password is in fact securing it so that only the holder or holders of the password can access the file.  Not true!  Via the Internet you can easily access a multitude of work-arounds that coach you through how to easily access the content of a restricted file. Read more

Are you endangering the privacy of your clients and team members?

sharyn bainesI once paid a lawyer to draft a legal agreement for my business.  The document was fabulous and given to me as a Microsoft® Word file so that I could easily add additional information each time I used the document.  When I received the file I noticed that the document’s metadata (hidden properties) held the name of another law firm, not the law firm that this document had been sent from.  Not a good look at all.

How did this happen?  Simple.  My document was a copy of a document from another law firm.  When the copy was made, possibly using File, Save As, the document’s metadata was carried over into my file.  The lawyer may not have been aware that Word files store metadata, information that can reveal details of the author and organisation from which it originated.  Even though my lawyer had indeed drafted the document, the original template of the file had been created at another law firm.  So even though it was his work, it looked as though it had originated elsewhere. Read more