Katharina Buczek
“HOWWWW,” asked another user.
“Tutorial, please! This happened to me just this week,” added a third user.
Thankfully, Cristina did post a tutorial and even shared her thoughts on the toxic topic.
“I just don’t get how this is not common knowledge. You should research how to watermark your work because in corporations– and especially the one I worked in– it is very toxic and very common for people to steal your work,” she said.
Cristina also shared a story from when she was a brand manager for Oral B.
“I just walked into the office and saw my manager presenting my two weeks’ worth of market research. She presented everything with her name on every single slide, and that was the moment I started researching how to watermark my PowerPoints,” she explained.
Afterward, Cristina gave users a step-by-step tutorial for their own watermarking needs.
“Whenever someone tries to download the presentation, they will not be able to– in any way– remove the watermark. They will have to reach back out to you,” Cristina said.
She also added how sad it is that this PowerPoint trick is even needed to gain recognition in the workplace.
“If you have to do this, I am so sorry for you, and you are definitely in a really toxic environment,” Cristina said.
Still, if you find yourself in this position, you can even use this hack on Microsoft Word documents, Excel documents, and nearly every program within the Microsoft Office platform package.
