Since its debut in the late 1980s, Microsoft‘s PowerPoint software has become many things to many people: a lifesaver to busy execs attempting to explain critical and complex financial data to their ...

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PowerPoint can easily be considered the most widely used and easiest tool to create winning presentations but PowerPoint slide design or even general graphic design is not usually a skill everyone has ...

Have you ever sat through a presentation where the slides felt cluttered, inconsistent, or just plain dull? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Yet, creating polished, professional slides doesn’t have to be ...

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.

Several years ago, Tom Hall, CPA, looked forward to attending a PowerPoint presentation about blockchain’s potential impact on accounting. Unfortunately, the slides were so jumbled and overloaded that ...

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 ...

Adding a video to Microsoft PowerPoint is an easy task, even if you’re doing it from a smartphone. However, some folks are wondering if it is possible to set a thumbnail for their videos. You see, ...