On July 31, 1987, Microsoft made an announcement that would forever change the world of business communications, when, after much debate and hesitancy from its CEO Bill Gates, the company announced ...

Are you making your point or putting your audience to sleep? To keep viewers focused on your message, create slides that support what you're tell them--and definitely do not read. Dennis O'Reilly ...

Boring, ineffective slideshow presentations are common in big companies and small firms. It’s the proverbial Death by PowerPoint. There’s seemingly no escape. Or is there? One of the biggest ...

Professor Edward Tufte is one of the world's experts on envisioning information. He believes that how we visually display information, particularly data, has a huge impact on how we absorb or learn ...

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 ...

How to use PowerPoint 2016’s Zoom feature to add flexibility to your presentations Your email has been sent You don't have to click through your presentation in a linear fashion. PowerPoint 2016's new ...

While PowerPoint is the de facto choice for creating presentations, it goes far beyond endless bullet points and dull meetings. It’s a secret weapon for unleashing your creativity. In this post, I ...

Catrina Niven teaches a third-grade self-contained enrichment class at Centennial School in Orland Park, Ill. Penny Grisham is the school’s media specialist. The exploration of human anatomy is vital ...

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 ...