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If you click on the image icon, you can either upload your own images, or let Haiku Deck find free stock art based on what you type in a search. This brings up options for images, charts, or solid colors. The next order of business is adding a background graphic by clicking the graphic icon in the nav bar. (Haiku Deck’s business model calls for adding additional themes you would pay for.) As you type, Haiku Deck automatically resizes the fonts so that your text fits the screen. You can then change the look of the type by choosing one of the six included free themes, which dictate the fonts and their relative sizes. Haiku Deck’s default startign slide: Just add text.Īs with a Word template, you substitute your text for the dummy text by clicking on a field and typing. Don’t let the nav bar intimidate you: It has only four icons-text, graphics, layout, and notes. It’s the first of four text screen options you see by clicking on the Text icon in the left navigation bar (the other three are a bulleted list, a numbered list, and lines of plain text). The default starting slide is a title screen with dummy text for a heading and a dek (a subhead or brief summary paragrph).
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It has whiteboard-style annotations with arrows pointing to major features. Not the least of Haiku Deck’s charms is a tutorial in the form of a screen overlay that you see when you first launch the service. However, if you work in the iPad app, you can save your changes and they’ll appear when you open your deck in the browser. For example, on the iPad you can adjust the proportions in a pie chart by dragging and dropping the segments on the web, you can only change the numbers themselves. The two versions are pretty similar, although the web app lacks a feature or two available on the iPad. But on the Web, it’s OS agnostic, based on HTML5. Haiku Deck may already be familiar to Apple iPad aficionados: Its iPad app has been around for about a year. A permissions feature lets you choose between making a deck public, sharing it only with people who get a link from you, or keeping it private. Sharing your work is easy, too-Haiku Deck stores your presentations online (you must create an account to use it), but gives you loads of links for downloading them to social media sites and saving them as PDFs or PowerPoint files. Of course, you don’t get all of the features that make PowerPoint so powerful (no transition or audio effects, for example), but you don’t have to spend hours learning to use the software, either.