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• Webinar: What you need to know about PowerPoint Slide Masters

  25 Feb 2013

  It's true that you can create PowerPoint presentations without using Slide Masters or even knowing what they are, but they save so much time and effort that we think you'll be glad to know about them. In this week's webinar, we'll show you how to master the Slide Master--a built-in tool that controls...
• 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...
• Tips for turning your Excel data into PowerPoint charts

  21 Aug 2012

  By guest blogger Ellen Finkelstein, PowerPoint MVP and author of many PowerPoint skills books. To learn more about her books, and get free tips and reports go to www.ellenfinkelstein.com . As a presenter, you probably use charts (also called graphs) in your presentations. Charts display data in a visual...
• Smart Guides in PowerPoint 2010

  21 Jun 2012

  (This post was previously published just after we first offered PowerPoint 2010. Since many, many people look up this post, we're publishing it again so others can easily learn how to use Smart Guides to make presentations look professional.) In PowerPoint 2010 there is a new way to align shapes we call...
• Creating custom shapes in PowerPoint 2010

  20 Mar 2012

  (Note: Creating and combining custom shapes is a tool introduced in PowerPoint 2010 that lots of presenters find useful. We first published this post in February 2010 and ever since then people have been looking it up so here it is again.) PowerPoint has a lot of great preset shapes, but sometimes what...
• Use PowerPoint slide layouts to make presentations memorable

  14 Mar 2012

  By guest blogger Ellen Finkelstein, PowerPoint MVP and author of many PowerPoint skills books. To learn more about her books, and get free tips and reports go to www.ellenfinkelstein.com . When all your slides look alike, your entire message can be blurred. At the end of your presentation, you want your...
• Webinar: Working with photos in PowerPoint

  13 Mar 2012

  This webinar has been updated and can be found here at the Office Blog: http://aka.ms/photo123 . Learn about other Office Webinars and how you can join them live at http://aka.ms/offweb . References: 1. Insert a picture with Office 2010 or Office 2007 2. Adjusting an image with Office 2010 or Office...
• 101 PowerPoint tips for business managers

  23 Mar 2011

  Each numbered item below is a link to one in a series of quick how-to videos on creating presentations by Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . As individual tips are posted to the PowerPoint blog , we'll collect them here so you can easily refer to them. Turn clip art into custom icons (video...
• A good old-fashioned workaround: Using portrait and landscape orientation in the same presentation

  14 Dec 2010

  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...
• OneNote 2010 and PowerPoint 2010: Easy note-taking while reading presentations

  13 Apr 2010

  Today’s post is a guest post from Alex Simmons, a Program Manager on the OneNote team. OneNote 2010 is included in every edition of Office 2010, so make sure to try it out! Hi everyone, we've built a new feature in OneNote 2010 that allows you to take more meaningful notes while reading in other applications...