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 ...

You can create your own PowerPoint templates, which you can then open later and use. To create a PowerPoint template, create a new presentation and edit it however you like, and then save it as a ...

The Slide Master is a feature that is used in Microsoft PowerPoint whose purpose is to control the look of the presentation’ including fonts, colors, backgrounds, effects, or anything else that you ...

Presentation expert Garr Reynolds says "backgrounds should be simple without lots of perceptible differences among the background image itself since this would interfere with the foreground elements." ...

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 ...

You’re on your way to the conference room when you suddenly realize that you used your company’s old logo throughout your 120-slide presentation. If you were using slide masters, you’d be just a few ...

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 ...