If you're ever after a U.S. government contract worth millions or even billions of dollars, odds are you'll need to give a persuasive PowerPoint presentation. Here are three expert tips on presenting to government agencies.

This is the second in a series of occasional posts by Mike Parkinson discussing how you can use PowerPoint in different industries and for diverse audiences. Mike is an internationally recognized visual communication expert, multi-published author, and a partner at 24 Hour Company, a premier proposal and presentation graphics firm. His first post for the PowerPoint blog was titled 2 steps to change the world with PowerPoint. 

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Sometimes you want the sweeping, dramatic, and sexy look of curved lines in your PowerPoint slides. But how? Here's an easy way, using Edit Points and Gridlines.

This is the eighth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint.

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In modern business-speak, an "elevator pitch" is one in which you make your point in the time it takes to ride an elevator to your destination. Now you can expand your PowerPoint capabilities in that same elevator trip with the new PowerPoint Elevator Pitch video series.

In the series debut, find out how to easily give your audience another dynamic information source by adding a video to your presentation.

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In this week's webinar, we'll show you some of the new features coming to PowerPoint 2013. You can try them out right now during our free Customer Preview.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar:

• New design elements in PowerPoint 2013
• A better experience with Presenter's...

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Incorporating  a well-constructed chart within your PowerPoint presentation can be a powerful tool to help deliver your message. In this post, guest blogger Ellen Finkelstein provides useful tips on how to turn data from Excel into an easy-to-understand, professional looking chart in PowerPoint

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In this week’s webinar, we'll show you some nuggets for making better PowerPoint presentations. You can join Office webinars at 9:15 am Pacific on Tuesdays. Go to http://aka.ms/offweb for complete information.

What you will learn at Tuesday’s webinar:

• How PowerPoint is like your resume
• Using the Notes section In PowerPoint
• Using Presenter’s View in...

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Have you ever tried to paste some Excel data into PowerPoint presentation? If you just press the paste button or Ctrl+V, PowerPoint will apply theme formatting to the table. Sometimes, however, you just want the table to look the same as it did in the spreadsheet. Maybe you just want to paste the table as an image. As described on the Office Engineering Blog : “In Office 2010, we’re combining the rich functionality of the Paste Special dialog and the Paste Recovery feature into a new Paste Options...

Late last year, the world found out for sure that Microsoft was investing in bringing Office apps to the web (though smart observers have been guessing that we are for a lot longer than that). Last week, we provided some more insight into how these Web apps would work, with videos and other information on the Office 2010 site . Later on, we’ll have a Technical Preview for the Web apps, so many of you will be able to try them out for yourselves. In the meantime, I thought I’d kick things off by talking...

Reflect Yourself OfficeArt's greatly improved graphics engine has a lot of sweet tricks up its sleeve and one our favorites is the reflection effect. This effect gives any object the appearance that it is sitting on a very shiny surface. Reflections are nice looking and also very trendy. Television, billboards, print advertisements and websites are using the effect quite a bit. Designers create reflections in high-end graphics programs like PhotoShop and it takes some serious skill to do so. In the...

A surprisingly high number of PowerPoint customers say that they want to change the color of hyperlink text in their presentations. Perhaps you don't like the color that the theme applied to it, or you may want the hyperlink text to blend in with the rest of the text on your slides.

No matter what the reason, it's easy to do.

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