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Home / Resources / Books / Slidedocs®

Slidedocs®

Create skimmable, visual documents to deliver insightful pre-reads or inspiring leave-behinds.

Create more compelling documents

Presentations are one of the most powerful tools for persuasive communication, but they’re not always the right vehicle to deliver information. Drawing from the best of slide design principles, Slidedocs® are visual documents that deliver information to help teams digest ideas at their own pace. That’s why Slidedocs® are ideal for sharing important pre-read material or creating presentation leave behinds. So, you can move your audience, even when you aren’t in the room.

Download Slidedocs® ebook

Free Slidedocs® templates

Put your learnings to practical use with our free PowerPoint templates. Each of the three unique templates includes customizable slides and a graphic toolkit.

Download 3 free Slidedoc™ templates
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Slidedocs®

Create "skimmable" documents

Build helpful pre-reads and impactful leave-behinds with presentation software to support knowledge sharing and decision-making.

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Meet the author

Nancy Duarte

Chief Executive Officer

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Guides and tools

Slidedocs® visual documents guide

Presentations aren’t always the best way to deliver some types of information. Learn how Slidedocs® can be used for more productive meetings and conversations.

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How to improve dense slides with Slidedocs®

In this explanatory guide we show you real-world examples of slides that weren’t working — then how we helped a company fix them using Slidedocs®.
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Big meeting coming up? Close the slideshow and pick up Slidedocs®

Stop struggling with presentations. Nancy Duarte shares her secret weapon to killer presentations & explains how Slidedocs® will help you in your next meeting.
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Blog

The slides you deliver versus the Slidedoc™ you leave behind

A Slidedoc combines visuals and text in a meaningful way, using presentation software, so the key messages are easily understood without the need of a presenter.

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