To help you get started, CIO.com asked Ayca Yuksel, the product manager for Microsoft Office PowerPoint, to share five design tips and five technical tricks for those who are new to the application.

We’ve all been there—staring at a blank PowerPoint slide, feeling the pressure to create something that’s not just functional but also visually captivating and professional. Whether it’s for a big ...

If you are facing any problem creating a PPT or you want to work with someone to create a special PowerPoint presentation, you can invite that person or share a link to let him/her edit your ...

Cliff Atkinson inspires me every time he writes about how to use PowerPoint to engage rather than lecture to audiences. While PowerPoint is, for too many people, one of the things that is broken in ...

Creating accessible Microsoft PowerPoint presentations is relatively easy once you know what is required. PowerPoint also has a real time accessibility checker that will alert you to errors and ...

Whether it’s the office standard or you’ve simply used it forever, Microsoft’s PowerPoint ( ; $400 as part of Office 2008) is a terrific tool for presenting your thoughts and ideas to colleagues.

Almost any PowerPoint presentation would benefit from clever animation. And, lucky for us, the Internet has an endless supply of animated templates that you can download for free (or for a nominal fee ...

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One of the coolest PowerPoint slideshows I have ever seen is one of PowerPoint’s own templates; it’s called “Duarte’s Five Rules.” It uses animation, graphics, fonts, layout, design, sound, narration, ...