We listen to what you have to say, so we know that many of you want to use both portrait (shown here as image 1) and landscape slide orientation (image 2) in the same presentation. It makes sense, and presentations with both orientations look great.

And while we don't like to deliver news that you might not want to hear, a single PowerPoint presentation can't contain both. It has to be one or the other. Hopefully, we saved you some time by just coming out and saying that.  

Now for the good news - there's a workaround that you can use to make it look like one presentation contains both landscape and portrait orientation. And even better, your audience will never know the difference. We know it's not an ideal solution, but hopefully it will help. Here's how it works:

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PowerPoint 2010 has new features that can help bring your stories to life and make your messages more compelling. We’ve even included sample templates to give you ideas, including some tips from Duarte Design. We approached Nancy Duarte after she gave a talk at our campus with the idea of creating a cinematic presentation, especially for you. Working with her team was such a treat, and it was great to see how they took advantage of the capabilities of PowerPoint 2010 to create an amazingly effective...

Creating a good presentation usually involves a number of steps: organizing your thoughts, developing a story, adding the content to your slides, and then taking some time to adjust the design so that it is aesthetically pleasing and appropriate for the setting. Adding animations is often a nice finishing touch. Once you apply an animation to an object, there are a variety of settings and adjustments to help you fine-tune for a more polished effect. It’s quite common to then apply that same animation...

I'm excited to announce that the PowerPoint product engineering team has officially joined the Office Blog. These are the folks who literally build PowerPoint, and they're intimately familiar with its full breadth of possibilities. Which we know will provide great reading for you.

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Sure, there are lots of great new things about PowerPoint 2010, but for me it's all about the power of video. In the video below, I'll show you how PowerPoint 2010 makes it easier than ever to add and edit video.

Nothing grabs an audience like video and now you can edit right in PowerPoint. I'll walk you through some quick and easy steps and show you how to:

• Insert your video into a slide.
• Trim your video right in your presentation.
• Reduce your video file size for email delivery.

Are you ready to test your Hollywood skills?

Check out the video below and then try your hand at creating a video presentation in PowerPoint. Join us on Facebook and let us know how it's going.

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It's a pleasure to announce the official release of a great tool for working with PowerPoint files, Microsoft Producer. Microsoft Producer allows you to take an existing presentation file, capture and synchronize video and audio narration, add additional media content, and produce a unified set of content ready for viewing in a browser on your corporate intranet or a generally accessible web server. A powerful tool for e-learning, corporate communications, sales... many corporations and schools have...

Note: If you’re in an RSS reader and can’t see this presentation, click here to view it full-size. To learn how to do this yourself, check out this walkthrough or visit http://office.com/embedpowerpoint . We’ve also made some interesting announcements on the Office blog : In just over 100 days since we launched, more than 20 million people have used Office Web Apps to view, edit, and share Office documents from anywhere with a browser and an internet connection. Today we're releasing...

Here at the PowerPoint blog, we want to help you make your presentations visual, engaging, and memorable. Not text-heavy and boring. To help you, in essence, become a great storyteller. Even (especially?) if your story is about bacon.

We also want to give you a chance to win a trip to TEDActive or a copy of Office 2010 for PC/Mac and a Kinect.

To help you create memorable, dynamic presentations, and to show you what other people are doing in their quest to design interesting content for their audiences, we're introducing SlideFest.

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Thanks for your interest in the Office SmartArt graphics. You've reached an expired content page. Please visit the below links on Office.com for more on how to create and use SmartArt in Office 2013: Create a SmartArt graphic Animate your SmartArt graphic Change the color of a shape, style, shape border, or entire SmartArt graphic Choose a SmartArt graphic Keyboard shortcuts for SmartArt graphics Video: Animate charts and SmartArt

Last week we announced the release of the new Office Web Apps. Today, we’re excited to talk a bit more in depth about the new things available in PowerPoint Web App. We’ve packed a ton of new features into this release all oriented around helping you be more productive. We wanted to make it super-easy to build great presentations quickly and effortlessly on the Web and with the new PowerPoint Web App you can.

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