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 ...

Think about your favorite TED Talk of all time. What do you remember about it? Maybe your answer is the life-changing knowledge shared by the speaker, or maybe it’s an impression of his or her humor ...

Nothing can revive a DOA PowerPoint presentation faster than animations. Applied judiciously, these motion effects can bring dynamism to your deck and make your message more powerful. Using the ...

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 ...

It is 25 years ago since PowerPoint first inflicted itself on the world. Whether the world is a better place as a result is open to debate. In the last 25 years we have discovered plenty of ways to ...

Animating PowerPoint slides can transform a standard presentation into an engaging and dynamic experience for your audience. By incorporating motion into your slides, you can emphasize key points, ...

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.

The four tabs for Themes, Tables, Charts and SmartArt have all gone, and their many different sets of tools have been merged into two new tabs. Like Word and Excel, PowerPoint now includes the new ...

PowerPoint is used everywhere, but it can’t be viewed or edited on every device. That’s a problem in an increasingly BYOD world, where many audience members could be wielding Android tablets instead ...