Nobody reads your Copilot-generated deck any harder than they read your old one
Making slides was tedious. Tedium was never the reason nobody read them. Generating the deck faster just means the nothing arrives sooner, in a better font.
PowerPoint
// 8 postsTutorials, tips, and deep dives on PowerPoint — every post from bianca.codes tagged PowerPoint.
PowerPoint posts
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Your PowerPoint template isn't a template if everyone still manually fixes the fonts
A deck people copy and correct isn't a template, it's a starting position everyone quietly diverges from. Here's what a real one does instead.
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Build a PowerPoint deck with Slide Master layouts that survive a full rebrand in ten minutes
Put the brand in three places - theme colours, theme fonts, and the logo on the master - and a full rebrand becomes three edits instead of fifty.
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The PowerPoint features I use in every deck, and the ones I've never once needed
Twenty decks, five features doing the real work, and four with a permanent ribbon seat I never once needed. An honest audit, not a hidden-features round-up.
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A week of actually using Copilot: what a beginner discovers (and what trips them up)
Seven days actually driving Copilot across Excel, Word and PowerPoint - the wins, the confidently wrong deck, and the habit that mattered more than any prompt.
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Nobody reads your 40-slide deck - and that's on you
A deck that needs 40 slides to make one point didn't run out of room. It ran out of edits.
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Align any set of objects in PowerPoint in two clicks
One win: stop nudging boxes with the arrow keys. Select, Align, done - PowerPoint's Arrange menu lines up and evenly spaces any set of objects in two clicks.
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Build a self-updating summary slide in PowerPoint linked to Excel
Paste Link turns three Excel cells into a PowerPoint object that updates itself, once you stop letting the linked range look like a spreadsheet.