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How-to guides and tutorials to help you perform specific tasks and use the Microsoft Powerpoint presentation application.
How to Make a Timeline in PowerPoint: Step-by-Step Guide
To create a timeline in PowerPoint, you’ll need to open a new slide, go to the “Insert” tab, and select “SmartArt.” Choose the “Process” category …
How to Hide a Slide in Powerpoint 2013
Microsoft Powerpoint has a lot of ways that you can edit slides, including an option that lets you remove a slide from a presentation. This …
How to Add a Formatted Slide to Your Slideshow in Powerpoint 2013
Often when you are adding new slides to your PowerPoint presentation, they will fall into a common category. This could involve a text box and …
How to Turn Off Narrations in Powerpoint 2013
Microsoft Powerpoint has many features that can help you give the best possible presentation. Aside from all of the various editing and formatting options, you …
How to Duplicate a Slide in Powerpoint 2016
When you are making a large presentation in Microsoft Powerpoint, you might create a slider that has a similar layout, or similar content, to another …
How to Add a Comment to a Slideshow in Powerpoint 2013
Commenting is a critical part of any group collaboration, particularly in a digital environment where everyone can’t communicate in person. Microsoft Powerpoint includes some commenting …
How to Make a Picture Transparent in Powerpoint 2013
Once you become familiar with Microsoft Powerpoint and all of the different tools and objects that are available, you can start to take advantage of …
How to Make a Square Picture a Circle in Powerpoint 2013
There are many applications that let you modify pictures. Usually, these tools give you ways to crop pictures, adjust the color balance, or maybe rotate …
How to Change the Powerpoint Default Presentation Screen
Is there a particular view in Powerpoint that you like to use, and you’re tired of having to switch to it anytime you open a …
How to Remove Text Box in Powerpoint 2016
Your Microsoft Powerpoint presentation might contain a text box, or multiple text boxes, that you don’t need. However, you might be struggling to delete the …
How to Delete a Picture in Powerpoint 2013
Editing spreadsheets, documents, or slideshows by deleting unwanted text or objects is something that has been a key component of applications like Microsoft Excel, Word, …
How to Insert an Arrow in Powerpoint 2013
Microsoft Powerpoint offers a large selection of options for adding objects to your slides. One of these options is found on the Insert menu and …
How to Flip a Picture in Powerpoint 2013
Is there a picture in your Powerpoint presentation that doesn’t look exactly the way you want it to? One way to fix this is to …
How to Add the PPT Developer Tab in Powerpoint 2013
Microsoft Office applications like Powerpoint 2013 feature a navigation system called the ribbon. This is a series of buttons and settings in a horizontal bar …
How to Print Multiple Slides on One Page – Powerpoint 2013
Whether you are trying to save paper or ink, or if you simply want to create a Powerpoint document that is a little more manageable, …
How to Change the Default Save Location in Powerpoint 2010
Remembering to save work that you have completed in Microsoft Office programs like Powerpoint, Excel, and Word can save you a lot of headaches and …
How to Change Slide Orientation in Powerpoint 2013
The slide orientation in Powerpoint is something that many Powerpoint users won’t think about, or take for granted. But occasionally a situation might arise where …
How to Center a Text Box in Powerpoint 2013
Data that is centered on the page or screen will often look better than data that is not. For visually-focused media like Powerpoint slides, this …
How to Change Powerpoint Spacing Between Bullets
When you create bulleted lists in Microsoft Powerpoint there is going to be a certain amount of space between those bullets. Use these steps to …
How to Make a Powerpoint Check Mark
The steps in this article are going to show you how to insert a check mark into a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation. A Microsoft Powerpoint presentation is …
How Do I Get a Word Count in Powerpoint?
The steps in this article are going to show you how to get a word count in Microsoft Powerpoint. This guide shows you how to …
How to – Powerpoint Vertical Slide Setting in Powerpoint for Office 365
The steps in this guide are going to show you how to adjust the orientation setting for your Powerpoint slides in Microsoft Powerpoint for Office …
How to Expand All Sections in Powerpoint
Creating sections in your Powerpoint slideshow is a helpful way to organize your presentation. Adding these sections makes it easy for you to determine the …
How to Hide Background Graphics in Powerpoint 2013
The premade themes in Powerpoint 2013 can be a good starting place when you are creating a presentation. Many of them look very clean and …
Where are the Speaker Notes in Powerpoint 2013?
Notes can be an important component of a presentation that you create in Powerpoint. Whether you want to include additional information on handouts that you …
How to Turn Off All Animation in a Powerpoint Presentation
Powerpoint animations are a feature of the program that add a bit of movement to the slides. Some people love them and use them at …
How to Put a PDF Into Powerpoint 2013
One of the more common document types that you will encounter in work or school is a PDF. It’s a very versatile file type that …
How to Stop Automatically Selecting Entire Word in Powerpoint for Mac
Adding text boxes and lists to a presentation in Powerpoint for Mac is an important element of almost any presentation that you would create in …
How to Embed Video in Powerpoint 2013
The increase in availability of high-speed Internet has led to a dramatic increase in the usage of video. Coupled with the fact that most smartphones …
How to Print Handouts in Powerpoint Online
When you are giving a Powerpoint presentation it can be helpful to give your audience a copy of the presentation, or some informational document, that …
How to Play Your Powerpoint Presentation in Powerpoint Online
You may have spent a lot of time editing your presentation and making sure that you have included all of the information, pictures, and videos …
How to Add a Section to a Slideshow in Powerpoint 2013
Sometimes when you create a Powerpoint presentation, there will be different “parts” to the presentation. Whether you are going to work on each of these …
How to Convert a Text Box to SmartArt in Powerpoint 2013
Many Powerpoint presentations that you view or create will incorporate some kind of visual component. Presentations are typically visual in nature, so attractive graphics and …
How to Change Line Spacing in a Powerpoint Text Box
When designing your slides in Powerpoint, you often need to consider where those slides are being presented. While an ideal scenario will make the presentation …
How to Embed a YouTube Video in Powerpoint 2016
Video is becoming more and more popular, with YouTube being the largest source of videos online. You can find relevant videos for almost any topic …
How to Return to the Default View in Powerpoint 2013
When you create a new slideshow in Powerpoint 2013, chances are likely that you see a large slide at the right side of the window, …
How to Change a Section Name in Powerpoint 2013
Large slideshows can be difficult to mange effectively in Powerpoint 2013, so you may have incorporated some organizational changes to fix that. One such change …
How to Prevent Showing the Right-Click Menu in Powerpoint 2013
When you are giving your Powerpoint presentation to an audience, one of the biggest concerns is the overall visual appearance and the presentation experience for …
How to Use Strikethrough in Powerpoint 2013
Strikethrough is a type of formatting in documents where you draw a line through some text. This is meant to indicate that the text should …
How to Enable Guides in Powerpoint 2013
Some of the objects that you add to the slides in your Powerpoint presentation will need to centered either along a vertical or horizontal plane. …
How to Discard Editing Data for Pictures in Powerpoint 2013
Powerpoint file sizes can easily spiral out of control when you start adding media files to your slides. Pictures and videos can be several MB …
How to Switch from Landscape to Portrait in Powerpoint 2010
Traditionally Powerpoint presentations utilize the landscape orientation. In fact, it’s pretty rare to see one that doesn’t. But just because it’s unusual doesn’t make it …
How to Hide Background Graphics in Powerpoint 2013
The different themes that are available in Powerpoint 2013 give you a number of options for quickly creating a visually-appealing slideshow. Their combinations of colors, …
How to Stop Showing Recent Presentations in Powerpoint 2013
Powerpoint 2013 can show a list of the presentations that you have recently worked on. This makes it easy to find a file and open …
How to Embed Fonts in the File in Powerpoint 2013
The fonts that you use in your Powerpoint presentation can have a big impact on people’s reactions to certain types of information that you display. …
How to End With the Last Slide Instead of a Black Screen in Powerpoint 2013
Many of the elements of your Powerpoint presentation will not occur until you have chosen to play the slideshow. However, there are other elements of …
How to Change the Slide Size in Powerpoint 2013
You might find that you need to change the slide size in Powerpoint 2013 if you have a project where the default size selection is …
How to Enable Kiosk Mode in Powerpoint 2013
Powerpoint is great when you need to manually present information in front of a group of people, but what if there is something that you …
How to Print Powerpoint with Notes (Powerpoint 2013)
Speaker notes are very important to have when you are giving a Powerpoint presentation in front of an audience, and you haven’t memorized the entire …