Whatever tools you can find to speed up your day’s work are tools well worth owning. PowerPoint has its share of features that reduce the time it takes to create and format a presentation, but some of ...

It's often useful to have a consistent visual theme throughout a PowerPoint presentation. A consistent theme not only helps your audience to absorb the information, but it also lets you focus on your ...

The Slide Master is a feature that is used in Microsoft PowerPoint whose purpose is to control the look of the presentation’ including fonts, colors, backgrounds, effects, or anything else that you ...

We’ve all been there—staring at a blank PowerPoint slide, feeling the pressure to create something that’s not just functional but also visually captivating and professional. Whether it’s for a big ...

Q. I’ve been using Microsoft PowerPoint for years, but I feel like there’s so much more I could be doing with it. Do you have any tips that could help even an experienced PowerPoint user? A. Almost 35 ...

Creating a presentation can feel like a daunting task, especially when faced with the blank canvas of a new slide deck. Whether you’re preparing for a high-stakes business pitch, a classroom lecture, ...

PowerPoint 2007 is one of the Office 2007 applications that supports the new next-generation Office interface, complete with the new Ribbon layout and interactive galleries. Most of the functionality ...

One of the coolest PowerPoint slideshows I have ever seen is one of PowerPoint’s own templates; it’s called “Duarte’s Five Rules.” It uses animation, graphics, fonts, layout, design, sound, narration, ...

You can create your own PowerPoint templates, which you can then open later and use. To create a PowerPoint template, create a new presentation and edit it however you like, and then save it as a ...

Microsoft PowerPoint has a feature that allows users to add numbers to their slides. This feature is useful when your presentation contains many slides. If your slides have numbers on them, you can ...

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Almost any PowerPoint presentation would benefit from clever animation. And, lucky for us, the Internet has an endless supply of animated templates that you can download for free (or for a nominal fee ...