Articles by Freelance Switch from September 2017

It was 8:30 AM. I’ve only been in the office for 15 minutes, but I’m already dreading the work ahead of me. Another day to grind through of answering 80 to 100 calls about life insurance.Frequent ...

Designing your own WordPress website might feel like an arduous task if you don't know where to begin. Thankfully, simple website design options do exist. In this article, we'll help walk you through...

Google has recently released a big update to Sheets, its web-based spreadsheet tool. And using artificial intelligence we can find out answers to questions about our data in Google Sheets. I'll show y...

If you've landed on this tutorial, you might be anxious about preparing for an upcoming presentation. You need to present something professionally to gain your audience's trust or break through in you...

Excel spreadsheets are perfect for storing data, but they can look a bit drab and boring without styling. That's why I'll teach you to use cell styles in Excel in this tutorial. How to Quickly Use Ce...

Imagine this. You're meeting with an important client. They're very interested in your product. And, you've got the perfect Google Slides presentation that'll answer all their questions. It's too bad ...

Borders are easy to add in PowerPoint as a way of bracketing the most important content on the slide. In this video, I'll teach you how to use image borders in PowerPoint PPT presentations in 60 seco...

There’s a common saying in the business world: “A business is only as good as its people.” So what happens when one of your key employees wants to quit?Although the resignation of an important t...

We should all think about how our data is used after we press send. In this 60 second video I'll teach you how to add a password to protect your PowerPoint presentations. Passwords help us to make sur...

Flowcharts are visualizations that help you see the parts of a sequence or process. They illustrate the way that individual parts "flow" together to create a finished product.Instead of a technical d...

It's one thing to create an effective Google Slides presentation. It's another thing to present the slideshow you created. Before you give your presentation, do some preparation work first. You need ...

What better way to celebrate ten years of Envato Tuts+, than with a fantastic selection of freebies and resources for our community? Join us as we take a look at how Tuts+ has changed over the last te...

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Mind Mapping is a great way to lay out your thoughts and brainstorm new ideas. Rather than just using simple lists, you’re able to link ideas in multiple different ways. You can think creatively rat...

What is a multimedia presentation? You've probably heard the term multimedia, but what does it actually mean in PowerPoint? In short, it's combining multiple types of media in your presentation. Yo...

When you’re looking to start an online business, a job directory site can be a viable source of income. Since people are always on the lookout for a new job, whether they want to change careers, fin...

Helping businesses and individuals increase their revenue, realize their true potential, and accomplish their goals is an exciting and rewarding career. But, as a business coach or a consultant, you n...

The problem is not that we lack data, it's that we have so much data that it's hard to find meaning inside of it. You need a way to re-arrange and clean up your data to make it usable. Microsoft Ex...

Let’s say you’re attending an event for work.You know some of the attendees, but not all of them. Some people are handing out business cards; others are talking to their colleagues. After getting ...

Drop shadows are one of those text features that help you really set your text off on a slide. Today, I'll teach you how to apply these types of text effects in PowerPoint. We also have a helpful com...

In UX design, metrics are used to measure how something is performing, and the “Net Promoter Score” (NPS)  is recognised as being the gold standard of measuring satisfaction. Satisfactio...

Timelines and presentations go hand in hand. One of the best ways to tell a story in your presentation is to give your audience a timeline that connects the past to the present. When you're crafting...

You're ready to create a professional Google slideshow, and you do know the basic steps. But you need some help with a few techniques. Or, you've created Google presentations before, but you need a re...

You might think of PowerPoint as the app you use when you're speaking to an audience. But what if that audience can't be in the same room as you? This is why adding narrations in PowerPoint is so u...

PowerPoint has this great feature called SmartArt that helps you add graphic illustrations and infographics to your presentation. You have to see it in action to get some ideas about how you can best ...

PowerPoint has the option to crop images inside of the presentation, so that you don't need a separate app to select the part of the image that matters for your presentation. Let's learn how to crop i...

So far in this series on HR for small business, we’ve looked at important human resources topics like hiring, training, and communication.But there are also some basic requirements you have to fulfi...

Getting good with a new app like PowerPoint is easy when you learn it one tool at a time. Even though PowerPoint is painless to get started with, there's plenty of features underneath the hood.It's ea...

Mobile apps have become an integral part of our everyday lives. They help us get our jobs done, stay in touch with people we care about, and even do our shopping. But, as useful as apps are, there is ...

Google Slides is a great tool for creating a professional presentation. Even if you feel comfortable with the basics of how to use Google Slides, you may not realize everything it can do. There are k...

We’ve all been there, a pile of work to get through and too many meetings and distractions to get it done. The office can be a great place to bond with colleagues and collaborate but there may be ti...

According to a report from technology market research firm, The Radicati Group, we're getting more spam today than ever before. In 2015, the average number of spam messages received by an average bus...

What better way to celebrate ten years of Envato Tuts+, than with a fantastic selection of freebies and resources for our community? Join us as we take a look at how Tuts+ has changed over the last te...

There is no shortage of bright and beautiful WordPress themes that catch the visitor’s attention. But sometimes, a colorful website loaded with animations is not the right choice. In those cases, ...