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July 17, 2026
Peter Claus Lamprecht is a presentation consultant based in Hamburg, Germany, with more than 37 years of experience. He helps self-employed professionals, sales and marketing teams, executives and consultants develop presentations that persuade and deliver results—from storyline to slide design to delivery. His specialty is PowerPoint slide masters, that work flawlessly on a technical level, implement the given design precisely and thus save time when working in PowerPoint. With the PPTX Toolkit, he is currently building a tool for direct access to the XML structure of PowerPoint files. In this conversation, Peter talks about PPTX Toolkit.
You get 8 shape types plus lines as part of this Organic Shapes collection. Each of these 8 shape types have 10 variants. So you end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options! Again each of these 80 shapes have 12 brush stroke styles! Plus you get the lines and arrows in 12 brush stroke styles too. Combine all variations to end up with more than 3000 possibilities.
July 1, 2026
AKVIS provides a range of AI powered photo editing applications that make complex image enhancement tasks straightforward. AKVIS Retoucher AI 13 is designed to make photo restoration and object removal significantly easier and more accurate. The plug in uses AI powered algorithms to repair damaged areas, eliminate unwanted elements, and seamlessly reconstruct missing details in old or imperfect photos.
Explore AKVIS Retoucher AI 13, a Photoshop plug-in that intelligently restores old photographs.
Inserting a New Slide with Copilot in PowerPoint 365 for Windows
July 7, 2026
This issue is about what happens when the right tool removes the friction. Ampler Charts takes the repetitive work out of building and updating business charts in PowerPoint, so you spend less time fixing visuals and more time using them. The KPIs article makes the case that performance indicators are far less intimidating than the acronym suggests. And AKVIS Retoucher AI 13 shows how AI can quietly restore damaged photographs without demanding expert skills. Three very different tools, one shared idea: the best technology gets out of your way.
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July 6, 2026
Writer’s block is not limited to aspiring and professional writers who are trying to craft their next article on deadline or write The Great American Novel. Presenters, too, are frequently faced with having to crank out their next great pitch. Their bar is not as high as that of a solitary writer staring at a blank computer screen or a yellow legal pad. Most presenters belong to a team such as a business unit in a large company or a small start-up, and so, they have access to their colleagues’ slide shows. Therein lies the problem: businesspeople consider their presentations to exist primarily in their decks.
Read more with Jerry Weissman.
July 2, 2026
Walk into any consulting firm or planning meeting, and you’ll probably find someone fixing a chart in PowerPoint. It could be a Gantt chart where the timelines no longer align, a waterfall chart that shifts every time a statistic changes, or a Mekko chart that took so long to build that nobody wants to edit it again. Some of that may sound a little exaggerated, but the larger point still stands. For years, presentation professionals have looked for tools that make chart creation easier and less time-consuming. That’s where Ampler Charts steps in.
July 1, 2026
AKVIS provides a range of AI powered photo editing applications that make complex image enhancement tasks straightforward. AKVIS Retoucher AI 13 is designed to make photo restoration and object removal significantly easier and more accurate. The plug in uses AI powered algorithms to repair damaged areas, eliminate unwanted elements, and seamlessly reconstruct missing details in old or imperfect photos.
Explore AKVIS Retoucher AI 13, a Photoshop plug-in that intelligently restores old photographs.
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