If I had to levy one complaint at PowerPoint, it would be that its presentations are too linear. You can only advance one slide at a time, and there's no way to arbitrarily pan around or zoom in on ...

Creating a presentation can feel like a daunting task, especially when you’re juggling tight deadlines or trying to bring a creative vision to life. We’ve all been there—staring at a blank slide, ...

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Need to deliver a lot of fairly dry or complex numbers and want a smarter, more engaging way to display it? You can try the charts and graphs in PowerPoint, but we've seen most of those before. What ...

Raleigh, USA, July 14, 2009 – authorSTREAM, the PowerPoint community slide-sharing platform, launches today its authorSTREAM Desktop software, which installs in Microsoft PowerPoint as an add-in ...

You can add page numbers to your PowerPoint slideshow through the "Slide Master" page, which lets you edit your entire slideshow at once. Once you add page numbers to your PowerPoint slideshow, you ...

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 ...