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• 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...
• The PowerPoint Blur Trick

  12 Oct 2011

  Today's post comes courtesy of Ric Bretschneider, PowerPoint MVP, former PowerPoint Senior Program Manager, and now contributor to the PowerPoint Blog. Take a look at Ric's blog at http://ricbret.wordpress.com/ . Hi, I'm Ric Bretschneider. You might remember me from...well, the very first entry in the...
• Make the world a better place one presentation at a time

  5 Oct 2011

  I recently attended the 2011 Presentation Summit in Austin, Texas . Rick Altman, the host of this conference for presentation professionals, does an excellent job recruiting industry experts who provide guidance on designing , building , and delivering presentations. According to Rick, "The most important...
• Free Webinar series to improve your slide design and presentation skills

  31 Aug 2011

  Update! The workshop is now over, but one of the presentations, by PowerPoint MPV Ellen Finkelstein, is still available at http://www.outstandingpresentationsworkshop.com/ellen-finkelstein . I've been invited to attend a series of free presentation webinars, hosted by Ellen Finkelstein , PowerPoint MVP...
• Wrap text around pictures and shapes in PowerPoint? Avoid it!

  30 Mar 2011

  We see a lot of questions about how to wrap text around a picture or a shape in PowerPoint. And it isn't easy (though we do have articles for PowerPoint 2010 and PowerPoint 2007 that discuss admittedly complicated workarounds to achieve the wrapping effect). Since it's hard and awkward to do, we see...
• 12 tips to keep your presentations short and sweet

  2 Mar 2011

  When William Henry Harrison was elected President in 1841, his inaugural address (the longest ever) clocked in at 1 hour and 45 minutes. Don't follow his example. Keep your presentations short and sweet with PowerPoint. For tips on using slide masters, Word outlines, autocorrect formatting, sound, handouts...
• Are your presentations accessible?

  1 Mar 2011

  Recently, the Crabby Office Lady did a series of blog posts on Accessibility , including a round-up of the accessibility features and technologies available in all of Office 2010 . And that got me thinking about the many things you can do in PowerPoint to make your presentations more accessible. Just...
• 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...
• Co-authoring in Office 2010: Advice from an MVP

  5 Jan 2011

  Co-authoring - the ability to work on a shared document, stored on a server, at the same time as other people work on it - is a new feature of both PowerPoint 2010 and Word 2010. You and your colleagues can work on the same document without intruding on one another’s work or locking each other...
• Creating digital dashboards: Advice from an MVP

  16 Dec 2010

  Take a look at this guest post on the MVP Awards Program blog by PowerPoint MVP Glenna Shaw. It talks about how to use PowerPoint 2010 and Excel 2010 together to create visually compelling interactive dashboards . You can learn more about Glenna on her website and at her blog . -- Erik Jensen
• Another festive holiday e-card from MVP Sandra Johnson

  9 Dec 2010

  Last month, we featured a free, animated, musically-enhanced electronic holiday card, created in PowerPoint , that you can download and send to your family and friends. Sandra Johnson, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for PowerPoint, designed it in 2009. And now she has a new one, hot off...
• Zero-calorie, delicious gifts: Your family photo album on disc, brought to you by PowerPoint

  8 Dec 2010

  With PowerPoint, creating a one-of-a-kind gift for the holidays is fun and easy. Make an album of your family's most memorable moments in PowerPoint, burn it to a disc, and giftwrap it. Start by downloading a template that you like, and then upload your favorite photos to PowerPoint 2010 or PowerPoint...
• Custom shapes made easier with PowerPoint 2010: Advice from an MVP

  29 Nov 2010

  Take a look at this guest post on the MVP Awards Program blog by Microsoft MVP Julie Terberg. In it, Julie discusses the new Combine Shapes commands in PowerPoint 2010 and how you can now create custom shapes within PowerPoint 2010, rather than having to use one or more separate programs to do so. You...