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.

PowerPoint comes with dozens of free shapes; circles, stars and even smiley faces are only a few clicks away. If you don't find a shape you like, draw your own using the built-in free-form drawing ...

If you want to use PowerPoint's capabilities to illustrate how two or more data points compare in magnitude, it might be appropriate in some cases to use proportional shapes to make the comparison.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Though you can always choose a premade template, you may want to customize your PowerPoint slide backgrounds manually. You can add a custom ...

Unless you’re presenting a cure for insomnia, you want your PowerPoint slides to engage your audience without distracting them from the presenter (you). Too much text invites people to read rather ...

The Ink to Shape feature works with Microsoft Word. It is very useful when images are inserted from external sources. The procedure is as follows: Unlike with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, Microsoft ...