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 ...

Slide Shows in PowerPoint show your presentation on a large screen to your audience; it enables you to move slides in the presentation back and forward to give the audience a better understanding of ...

Upon opening the Microsoft PowerPoint software, a blank slate – and slide – awaits your input. Whether you plan to add a text box, image, animation or video clip, PowerPoint assumes you will be ...

Learn how to create a summary slide that you can add to the end of a presentation to support a Q&A session with your audience using older stand-alone versions of PowerPoint and Microsoft 365. Adding a ...

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, ...

Note: This post was originally published on OPEN Forum. A PowerPoint presentation never promises to titillate like a Broadway production. But when it comes to presenting and pitching an idea to ...

When using Microsoft Office 365, you can make your title slide a looping video by using Design Ideas on the Home tab in PowerPoint. The title slide below with falling snow in the background was ...

You can insert a picture into a slide easily enough, but often, you'll be working with placeholders -- especially when working with a layout slide. You insert the pictures into the placeholder, and ...