It's often useful to have a consistent visual theme throughout a PowerPoint presentation. A consistent theme not only helps your audience to absorb the information, but it also lets you focus on your ...

Making slides can eat up way too much time, especially if you’re only using the basics. PowerPoint is so feature-rich that it's easy to overlook the most useful ones. Once you know them, you’ll wonder ...

Though you can always choose a premade template, you may want to customize your PowerPoint slide backgrounds manually. You can add a custom background to one or more slides, and you'll also have the ...

Microsoft PowerPoint has a feature that allows users to add numbers to their slides. This feature is useful when your presentation contains many slides. If your slides have numbers on them, you can ...

You can reuse slides and combine presentations to save a bit of time and trouble. Susan Harkins explains. Trying to create a presentation quickly is unpleasant, because they take time! If you’re lucky ...

You can create black or white slides in PowerPoint. To make and show your PowerPoint slides in Grayscale, follow these methods: Use the keyboard shortcuts Show black or white slide via the ...

A well-designed PowerPoint presentation can make all the difference in a big meeting, whether you’re talking with employees, pitching investors or wooing clients. This visual display helps drive home ...

Small business owners use Microsoft PowerPoint to create visual presentations for use when pitching clients, training employees and speaking at trade shows. Each PowerPoint presentation is composed of ...

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