Tag: PowerPoint
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Preserving equations in Powerpoint when going cross-platform
This is another one of those tricks that I forget how to do unless I write it down. When I move Powerpoint (2010) presentations from my Windows machine to my Mac (Powerpoint 2011), the equations usually get destroyed along the way. The workaround is to turn the equations into images that can’t be altered by…
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Part 2: Make your R figures legible in Powerpoint/Keynote presentations
In the previous post, I outlined some tips for increasing the size of figure labels for figures that are meant to be displayed on a projector. The previous post used the base R plot() function, but the procedure when plotting with ggplot2 is different and usually quite a bit simpler than the stock R plotting…
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Make your R figures legible in Powerpoint/Keynote presentations
Having just returned from the SICB 2014 meetings, the appearance of many people’s Powerpoint figures is fresh on my mind. The sheer number of tiny figure labels (tick marks, axis titles, legend text etc) is disappointing. If we want to point fingers, MATLAB users are clearly the worst offenders because of the microscopic default label…