Mac + PC Compatible Fonts

Full list of fonts available in both Office for Mac and Office for Windows

You can use these fonts in Office documents, knowing that anyone who gets the file – using Windows or Mac will see it using the same fonts. The document should look very close, if not exactly, the same on either operating system. The list is similar, but not exactly the same, for earlier versions of Windows, Mac and Office. Macintosh users can find this list in the font collection ‘Windows Office Compatible’.

Create PowerPoint editable icons on a Mac

Take an .ai, .eps, or .svg file of your icon artwork and open it in Adobe Illustrator.
isolate your artwork on a transparent background.
EXPORT the artwork as a .wmf file (.emf works also).
(okay you're done with Illustrator for now).

Open PowerPoint. Pull the wmf file in.
Now, send the file to a friend who has a PowerPoint on a PC.
Have them open the file you sent in PowerPoint. Now hit UNGROUP.
PowerPoint will warn you that the file is a picture, and ask you if you want to convert to a WMF file. Say yes. That's exactly what you want to do.

After you convert the file, ungroup it. there will be a bounding box you can delete. Now you have an icon that you can edit in powerpoint directly - i.e. color it, add an outline, etc.

Mac Search Trick

[Mac users only]

So you do a spotlight search and find the file you're looking for... but want to go to the folder. What do you do? Easy.

Just hit COMMAND-ENTER. It takes you right to the file in it's folder.

Create your own shapes in PowerPoint

Presentation designers: Your days of hunting for icons is over. This is the coolest trick YOU NEVER HEARD OF. Prepare to have your mind blown and all your wildest presentation dreams come true...

Yes that's right. You can draw two shapes in PowerPoint and then use this command to combine them, intersect them, create a union, or subtract them. Make endless combinations of shapes and icons that are fully editable in PowerPoint. Take that old map artwork and break the Sudan and South Sudan into two separate countries. Freedom is yours. At last.

Go ahead and weep. There's no shame in it. I know I did.

Extracting Images from a PDF with Photoshop

Open Photoshop. 

FILE | OPEN | Select a multi-page PDF

On the landing screen, select () Images 

Select the images you want to extract. 

On a mac, hold the COMMAND key down to select multiple images

choose OK

wha la... Photoshop extracts the images you want right out of the PDF in separate files. Save in format you want.