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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...
• When the picture doesn’t fit (Video)

  1 Oct 2012

  This is the seventeenth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Sometimes a picture fits awkwardly on a slide, creating a lot of background. What can you do? Here's an artistic solution using PowerPoint's...
• 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...
• Three ways to make your picture fit your slide

  13 Jun 2012

  (This post was first published in March 2011. We're Today's post on fitting pictures into PowerPoint is part of a series by Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint: The New Language of Business , a 12-step process for creating clearer and more convincing PowerPoint presentations for the boardroom...
• Download the PowerPoint 2010 Viewer

  9 May 2012

  (This post, originally published in 2010, announced the availability of the PowerPoint 2010 Viewer. This post remains incredibly popular because so people find the Viewer to be a useful tool. We're republishing it so readers of our blog can find and use it, too.) I’m excited to announce that our...
• Kid, you've got what it takes to add a video to PowerPoint

  1 May 2012

  Welcome to Office Tip Classics -- a series of one-minute videos where you'll get to see clips of film classics and learn a tip about Office 2010. In this episode, school tough-guy Marty has a hard time keeping his cool after losing the class presentation contest. His teacher tries to cheer him up, explaining...
• Crop around irregular images

  11 Apr 2012

  This is the sixteenth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . [ Note : In his last video in the series, Bruce Gabrielle showed you how to make an image within an image stand out . Here's the next step.] How...
• Make an image within an image stand out

  4 Apr 2012

  This is the fifteenth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Five math whizzes from the same city go to Harvard to study business and only one becomes a CEO of his own company. You want to use visuals in...
• PowerPoint 2010: Remove a background

  26 Mar 2012

  (Note: We first published this post in 2010, but since then so many of you have looked it up that we thought we'd share it with you again.) As we noted in the last post about inserting a screenshot , a lot of the work for Office 2010 has been about improving workflow for image insertion and editing....
• 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...
• Death by PowerPoint? Not so fast

  1 Mar 2012

  Several months ago, The New York Times published an article called We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint . Of course we didn't agree. And it looks like PowerPoint blogger Kit Seeborg didn't either. His post Dear PowerPoint: It's not you, it's me gathers tips from PowerPoint experts on creating presentations...
• 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...
• Tug your Valentine's heart strings with this animated e-card

  10 Feb 2012

  We're sure you know someone who sits in front of a computer all day--your co-worker, accountant, spouse--who would appreciate being distracted for 10 seconds by an animated Valentine's Day card. We've brought you one courtesy of Sandra Johnson, a MVP PowerPoint genius. Check out her theWiz website to...
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  6 Dec 2011

  One great thing about my job on the graphics team at Microsoft Office is that I learn something every day from customers who are using our programs. For example, I was reading Geetesh Bajaj's (PowerPoint MVP ) latest Indezine article and discovered that PowerPoint can insert random text into a slide...
• 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...
• Broadcast your slide presentation to a remote audience (video)

  28 Sep 2011

  Here's a great, short, instructive video about how you can broadcast your PowerPoint 2010 presentation over the Internet to a remote audience. While you present the slide show inside PowerPoint, your audience follows along in their browser -- they don't even have to have PowerPoint installed. Broadcast...
• Fabulous, free video templates available now

  7 Sep 2011

  I'm thrilled to announce a special new collection of 34 PowerPoint 2010 video templates, available now as free downloads on Office.com ! Use them as-is, or step through the procedures (that appear in each template's Notes pane ) to learn how to reproduce the look of each template, thereby enhancing your...