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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

Employing the same design techniques that web developers use, you can make transparent and translucent shapes appear on top of other objects in your business PowerPoint presentations. These shapes, ...

I never expected to make a career out of building executive presentations. When I went to college in the mid-1990s, I was a fine art major, much to my parents’ concern. But it was that same love for ...