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Slide Show

• Your top 10 favorite PowerPoint posts of 2012

  9 Jan 2013

  In 2012, you were doing more than adding data to slides--you really put PowerPoint to work to create visual representations of your hard work, bright ideas, and personal style. Charts, themes, animations, color-matching, and tips for presenters were just some of your favorite topics for polishing your...
• Present your message to anyone, anywhere with Broadcast Slide Show (video)

  2 May 2011

  Have you ever been on the phone with someone and suddenly wish you could just show them what you mean? You can! With PowerPoint Broadcast Slide Show and a few clicks, you can send your slides to your customer or partner and walk them through your message. In this excerpt from the Office Show , Doug Thomas...
• Win prizes with your story: Introducing SlideFest (video)

  4 Apr 2011

  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 TED Active or a...
• America's pastime, really? Of Baseball and PowerPoint

  1 Apr 2011

  Here's a fun slide deck , especially since Major League Baseball is once again upon us, on whether baseball is still America's favorite pastime. What do you think? Share your $.02 on the Office Facebook page , or on the PowerPoint Facebook page . The PowerPoint deck is posted on docs.com , a place where...
• Add a slide title to a cluttered background (video)

  8 Mar 2011

  This is the third in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Bruce's second tip showed how to quickly create custom silhouettes using free pictures , and his first was about turning clip art into custom icons...
• Better, faster, slicker PowerPoint presentations with keyboard shortcuts

  4 Feb 2011

  By learning just a few keyboard shortcuts, you can stop sweating the mechanics of presenting - and give more of your attention to your audience and your message. Here's a quick selection of presentation boons that will save you time and make you look super pro, starting with the basics: Action Keyboard...
• You too can create a presidential presentation

  1 Feb 2011

  Last week, President Obama delivered the annual State of the Union speech . It was widely discussed in the US media and Steve Ballmer also referred to it in a subsequent Microsoft Employee Town Hall. What made the speech so good? Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint , has done a short analysis...
• Reorder objects on a slide in PowerPoint for Mac 2011

  27 Jan 2011

  If you sometimes lose objects behind other objects on a PowerPoint slide, Office for Mac 2011 has a solution for you. For example, the image at left is a target that I created for a presentation showing that we hit the mark in sales. But the small black bull's-eye in the very center is hidden behind...
• Broadcast your next presentation on PowerPoint Radio

  19 Jan 2011

  Broadcast Slideshow , a powerful new feature in PowerPoint 2010, enables you to deliver your presentation from a remote location on the web. And to help you understand how to deliver your presentations using Broadcast Slideshow, we created PowerPoint Radio . With PowerPoint Radio, you can watch live...
• 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...
• A tip for the new year: How to change the color of hyperlink text

  28 Dec 2010

  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...
• 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...