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 wrong. In fact, some presentations can be more effective if the slides are designed for the portrait orientation. Luckily this is a setting that you can adjust in Powerpoint 2010. […]

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, graphics, and formatting often mean that you only need to include the actual information that you want to convey to your audience. But you may find that the background graphics […]

Narrations in a Powerpoint presentation afford you the ability to create a complete presentation that includes your audio dialogue to accompany the visual aid that is your slides. This lets you craft the perfect, complete presentation that you can either play for an audience, or distribute to others as a single digital file. But occasionally […]

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 it so that you can continue editing. However, you may be working on sensitive information, and you may share a computer with someone else, and you would prefer not to […]

Powerpoint presentations are often created by groups, whether it’s for a group project at school, or it’s a team endeavor at your job. While collaborating in person can be an effective way to create the presentation, it may not always be practical. Therefore you will need to work on the file together, which can be […]

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. Therefore you may find yourself agonizing over the right font for the right situation. But it can be a big letdown if you give that presentation on a different computer, […]

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 the presentation that may not be apparent until you have viewed the entirety of the presentation as it will be shown to your audience. One of the elements is the […]

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 not ideal. Fortunately you can change slide sizes to a number of different potential options, although the means to do so might not be immediately obvious. Our guide below will […]

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 would like to show to an audience, but you can’t be there to keep showing it over and over? Fortunately Powerpoint 2013 also has a feature called “kiosk mode,” whereby […]

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 presentation. Unfortunately speaker notes do not display while the presentation is playing, so you might need to print them out so that you can use them while presenting. One effective […]