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 ...

Upon opening the Microsoft PowerPoint software, a blank slate – and slide – awaits your input. Whether you plan to add a text box, image, animation or video clip, PowerPoint assumes you will be ...

In modern business, if there’s a presentation, there’s a PowerPoint with it. (Or, one of the programs that resemble it.) It’s almost as if we’ve forgotten how to present without one. Unfortunately, ...

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 ...

*PowerPoint is among the most commonly used Microsoft Office applications. Everywhere you go, whether it is an office or a learning institution, you will run into the application. It has proven to be ...

In my role as a 5th grade teacher, I’ve come to believe that one of the best ways to integrate technology into the classroom is to start with the lesson itself. Lessons can be turned digital, and ...

Microsoft PowerPoint is often criticized for ruining public speaking, given the temptation for presenters to simply read the slides they’ve prepared using the software — the phenomenon known as “Death ...

You can only highlight text in PowerPoint directly if you have PowerPoint 2019 or subscribe to Microsoft Office 365. If you have an earlier version of PowerPoint or ...

Let’s see these steps in detail. 1] Open PowerPoint for the Web in your web browser and create a new presentation or open the existing one. 3] After inserting the Timeline SmartArt, you will see a ...

My previous post, A Perfect Picture Of The Inward-Looking Organization: Death by PowerPoint, quoted an example of large layered hierarchy in a pharmaceutical firm, where PowerPoint was used by each ...

PowerPoint's file type menu, visible in the program's Save As window, lists over two dozen formats in which you can save one of your business presentations. If you've never looked at those file ...