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.

Whatever tools you can find to speed up your day’s work are tools well worth owning. PowerPoint has its share of features that reduce the time it takes to create and format a presentation, but some of ...

PowerPoint 2007 is one of the Office 2007 applications that supports the new next-generation Office interface, complete with the new Ribbon layout and interactive galleries. Most of the functionality ...

The Change Shape feature changes your graphic to a different graphic, preserving its formatting and size. Insert an icon into the slide and click the Graphics Format tab. Click the Change Graphic ...

The best graphics don’t make a presentation. Regardless of how graphic-heavy a presentation is, it will still contain important text. With all the grand formatting and animation tools, you might want ...

The four tabs for Themes, Tables, Charts and SmartArt have all gone, and their many different sets of tools have been merged into two new tabs. Like Word and Excel, PowerPoint now includes the new ...

PowerPoint has a great set of special effects, graphics, animations, and template themes. There’s just one problem: Everybody else has the same effects, animations, and template themes that you have.

What if you place a picture into your PowerPoint slide but want to replace it but want to keep the exact formatting of the photo size and position, and you do not want to go back to the insert tab and ...

You can save a PowerPoint presentation as a PDF to lock its content and formatting in place, so that other people can view the file but can't make changes. Converting a PowerPoint deck into a PDF ...