When you think "presentations" is your first thought Microsoft PowerPoint? (Closely followed by an internal groan, dreading how long it's going to take to pull all your slides together). 

Sure, PowerPoint is the most commonly used presentation software, but there are other options. We've pulled together a list of some of the more common alternatives, and got them to engage in a little bit of friendly rivalry. 

 
 

How can a template help my business or clients?

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In our experience, most businesses, no matter how big or small, use the concept of a template already. 

You put together a deck of slides for a presentation - firstly adding your logo, picking your font, and incorporating other branding elements. The next time you are pitching to a client, you take that presentation, hit Save>As and start adding and deleting content.

And yet you spend a huge amount of time resizing every text box to your preferred font, copy-pasting the same element over and over, and generally getting pretty annoyed by the whole process.

You work the same in Word - take an old report, start tweaking it and before long find yourself in a Microsoft hell of jumping bullets, possessed numbering and inexplicable blank pages.

Why isn't your 'template' working?


 
 
Fonts for Mac and PC
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As a designer, your choice of font is integral to your design and vision. Yet, understanding how to get those fonts to work across different platforms for your clients' needs can be really frustrating.

Fonts that are standard on a Mac don't always translate across to the PC platform, and vice versa, and the problem is even worse with non-standard fonts.

Keep the following points in mind next time you are designing with a non-standard font, and you may save yourself and your client some headaches:

 

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