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 ...

PowerPoint also lets you customize the Quick Access Toolbar if the default options don't suit you. Click the downward arrow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hiding a slide in Microsoft PowerPoint takes only a few steps — and unhiding that slide later is just as easy You may find this option helpful if you don't plan on using the slide in your presentation ...

Microsoft's PowerPoint for Mac lets you design and print handouts of your presentations. A handout can include between two and nine slides per page. You may display your presentation's notes if you ...