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• Free training: Learn to create PowerPoint animations

  17 Feb 2012

  Guest post by Dave Ludwig, a senior writer on the Office PowerPoint team. Back in the day, clear and concise text was the key to a good presentation. But the game has changed. People expect your slides to dance. Well, not really dance, but they certainly expect some animation here and there. That's why...
• Five eye-popping PowerPoint holiday templates

  7 Dec 2011

  PowerPoint's not just for showing off fancy charts at board room presentations, especially this time of year when the calendar winds down. Open PowerPoint at your desk (if it's open, you're working, right?) and tick off some holiday tasks. With these holiday templates, you can write that end-of-year...
• Trigger animations to call out important parts of your slide presentation (video)

  21 Sep 2011

  To draw attention to the important parts of your presentation, in PowerPoint 2010, you can use video bookmarks to trigger animations. Take a look at this short video to find out how to do it. View this video as a WMV <div><img alt="DCSIMG" id="DCSIMG" width...
• Are animations and transitions annoying your audience? (video)

  21 Apr 2011

  If you haven't yet, head over to the new SlideFest site , submit your best presentation for a chance to win a trip to TED Active in Palm Springs or a copy of Office 2010 for PC/Mac and a Kinect, and learn a ton by seeing what to do and what not to do when creating a PowerPoint presentation (including...
• Fabulous free templates await: The PPT165 project is complete

  17 Jan 2011

  Happy to announce that all 165 templates created by PowerPoint MVP Julie Terberg are now available as free downloads at Office.com. You can use these templates as-is, or unlock your inner designer (reproduction steps appear in each template's Notes pane in PowerPoint). This is a sequel of sorts; we created...
• PowerPoint 2010: Hardware Acceleration

  4 Jan 2010

  In Office 2007, we significantly improved the rendering quality of static content. Users could quickly and easily enhance shapes, pictures, and other content with effects such as bevels, soft edges, and reflections. For Office 2010, we switched our focus to enhancing dynamic content - animations, transitions...
• Introducing Broadcast Slide Show

  8 Oct 2009

  In today’s world, you often need to communicate with people in different locations who can’t get together in the same room. When you’re presenting, you want everyone to see your slide show at the same time -- whether they’re sitting next to you or joining on the phone from 10,000 miles away. PowerPoint...
• Animation Painter

  4 Sep 2009

  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...
• A Brand New Slide Show...

  25 Aug 2009

  Over the years, PowerPoint has gone through a number of graphic improvements. Our goal is always to provide the best environment for you to visualize and communicate your ideas. At the beginning of this release, we looked at how advancements in motion graphics have transformed visual storytelling in...