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 ...

Formatting should always be either the last or the first part. Doing it at the end ensures you are past your final content, and all you need to do is make it look right. So follow the steps to change ...

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 ...

Master slides are the slide layouts that are built into a slide deck. Within the master slides, the very first slide in the slide deck is the slide master and the following slides are the layout ...

Creating a presentation can feel like a daunting task, especially when faced with the blank canvas of a new slide deck. Whether you’re preparing for a high-stakes business pitch, a classroom lecture, ...

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Note: This post was originally published on OPEN Forum. A PowerPoint presentation never promises to titillate like a Broadway production. But when it comes to presenting and pitching an idea to ...