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How to fix PowerPoint slide off center in editing view

This one annoyed me for a while before I worked it out. I have a deck where most slides are correctly centred while editing with no horizontal scroll bar. But some slides in the same deck are off-center and have a horizontal scroll bar: This is because there is an object somewhere that has been dragged off the slide and into the “space” on the left. You can find it by zooming out, selecting the...

No more “next slide please” with Microsoft Teams PowerPoint Live Presenter Mode

One of the great meeting features of Microsoft Teams is PowerPoint Live Presenter mode. For me, the killer feature is that anyone can “Take control” of presenting the deck seamlessly. In my opinion, it really breaks the flow of a presentation for the presenter to keep prompting someone with “next slide please”. It became a running joke with the UK Government updates that they were constantly...

Change PowerPoint Spell Check Language for specific slides / text boxes

Sometimes specific slides or parts of slides end up being in a different language to the rest of the deck, resulting in them showing red underlines for miss-spelling even though the spelling is correct, it’s just that spell check is expecting/checking based on it being a different language. For example, this deck is in English, but it is showing these words as spelt wrong. If you select a...

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