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 ...

Have you ever sat through a presentation where the slides felt cluttered, inconsistent, or just plain dull? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Yet, creating polished, professional slides doesn’t have to be ...

Let’s be honest: Everyone has used (and likely abused) PowerPoint before. Microsoft’s presentation program is more than 20 years old, and although Redmond works very hard at keeping one of its primary ...

PowerPoint has a great set of special effects, graphics, animations, and template themes. There’s just one problem: Everybody else has the same effects, animations, and template themes that you have.

Several years ago, Tom Hall, CPA, looked forward to attending a PowerPoint presentation about blockchain’s potential impact on accounting. Unfortunately, the slides were so jumbled and overloaded that ...

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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 ...

Whether it’s the office standard or you’ve simply used it forever, Microsoft’s PowerPoint ( ; $400 as part of Office 2008) is a terrific tool for presenting your thoughts and ideas to colleagues.

Cliff Atkinson inspires me every time he writes about how to use PowerPoint to engage rather than lecture to audiences. While PowerPoint is, for too many people, one of the things that is broken in ...

This Microsoft PowerPoint tutorial for beginners will help you to learn how to start and create it. This post will give you the step by step details and tips on how to make your presentation ...

The best graphics don’t make a presentation. Regardless of how graphic-heavy a presentation is, it will still contain important text. With all the grand formatting and animation tools, you might want ...

Adding a video to Microsoft PowerPoint is an easy task, even if you’re doing it from a smartphone. However, some folks are wondering if it is possible to set a thumbnail for their videos. You see, ...