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Guides and tips on creating resources, PowerPoint tricks, and growing your TPT business.
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Shaped Puzzles Just Got a Big Upgrade
Word Search Creator and Maze Creator now produce clearer shaped puzzles with proper outlines, more recognizable silhouettes and new ready made designs.
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How to Make a Color by Number Worksheet with Color by Code
A short walkthrough for turning a colored-in drawing into a printable color-by-number worksheet and answer key with the Color by Code Worksheet Maker.
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How to Create a Room-to-Room Maze Worksheet
A step-by-step walkthrough for building a room-based maze worksheet in Maze Creator, understanding rooms vs empty space, and exporting it for classroom use.
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How to Create a Sea World Sudoku Pack
A step-by-step walkthrough for building a sea world Sudoku worksheet pack in Sudoku Creator and finishing it in PowerPoint.
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How to Create a Sea World I Spy Worksheet
A step-by-step walkthrough for building a sea world I Spy worksheet in iSpy Creator and finishing it in PowerPoint.
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Create Word Searches in Any Shape You Want
Word Search Creator now lets you turn any black and white image into the shape of your word search.
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How to create a 3D Puzzle in PowerPoint using any image
How to create a 3D puzzle in PowerPoint with any image using Puzzle Maker
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Rolling dice with Google Slides
Use this template to throw dice in Google Slides
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Create an interactive time telling activity for Google Slides
This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to create an interactive time telling activity for Google Slides.
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Create autofillable PDF certificates with Flat Pack in PowerPoint
This step-by-step video will show you how to create PDF certificates. Fill in a table and it fills out the rest of the PDF pages
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Watermarks in PowerPoint
This step-by-step video will show you how to create watermarks that you can place on all your pages in PowerPoint
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Create TPT Product Previews with this free Power Point template
Setting up templates for TPT Product Previews can really speed up your workflow. In this article we will explore how *(includes a free product preview template)
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Image Placeholders 101 - for PowerPoint
Image placeholders, slide layouts and slide masters are one of those features that will give you superpowers once you know how to use them. In this introductory lesson we will learn how to insert an image placeholder into a new slide layout.
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Why is my product so blurry after flattening in PowerPoint or Flat Pack?
How do you ensure that you have the highest quality images after flattening your products with PowerPoint and Flat Pack.
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Is sending a note to followers worth it?
This article takes you behind the scenes of writing a note to my followers.
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Autosize your PDF Form Fields
If you need your font size to shrink the more text you enter into a PDF form field, the Autosize feature is your friend.
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Why you should always set one kind of password on your PDF (but not the other)
There are two passwords you can set on a PDF when you secure it (either using Flat Pack or using Adobe Acrobat Pro). The one you will always want to set, but the other one, rarely if ever.
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Creating your first editable PDF with Flat Pack in Powerpoint
There is no doubt that good previews will help sell your product. So it is worthwhile spending time on creating good previews. It's just a bother that creating them takes such a long time!
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How to create more products to sell (without spending more time on your computer)
Do you want know the one thing that has helped me create more products and be more productive this last month? Hint: it’s not a tool on the computer, nor an app you can download.
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Tired of creating product previews? Say hello to Powerpoint Templates
There is no doubt that good previews will help sell your product. So it is worthwhile spending time on creating good previews. It's just a bother that creating them takes such a long time!
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How to create and publish new products when you are a perfectionist
The best advice I have ever received about writing was to “write crappy first drafts” (From Bird by Bird)
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What nobody tells TPT sellers who are beginners
What nobody tells people who are beginners
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How do I protect my TPT previews from being stolen
I am concerned about people being able to download and take my products for free, based on my previews. How do I make sure my previews are protected?
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Why won't my Powerpoint print correctly?
On some computers when you print from Powerpoint, it doesn't print what is on the slide. Why?
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Create an auto-fillable PDF in Powerpoint with Flat Pack
How to create an autofillable PDF in Powerpoint using Flat Pack
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How to solve common font issues in editable Powerpoints
When you open your Powerpoint on another machine, the fonts seem to change. How do we solve this?
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How to solve common font issues in editable PDFs
When you open your editable PDF on another machine, the fonts seem to change. How do we solve this?
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