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 easy to view for your audience, you might find that the display is smaller than you would like, making smaller text difficult to read. You may not be able to […]

A slide in Powerpoint 2013 is essentially a canvas. You can add text, pictures, videos, and more to any slide, then you can drag that element to its desired location. But making slides look good can be difficult, especially when it comes to choosing an appealing layout. One way to make it a little easier […]

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 in their library, which can be very useful when you need to incorporate video into a Powerpoint presentation that you are giving. Fortunately Powerpoint 2016 makes it possible to embed […]

Sometimes you will find that you need to make a Powerpoint presentation that will be shown to a couple of different audiences. Depending upon the makeup of those audiences, it’s possible that all of the slides in your presentation may not be relevant. But rather than create two separate presentation files, you might find it […]

With slideshows like the ones you create in Powerpoint 2013, the visual appearance of information is incredibly important. People that are viewing your presentation are just as likely to evaluate it based on its appearance as they are based on its content, so it’s helpful to make a presentation look as nice as possible. One […]

When you insert a picture in a Powerpoint slide, the picture will be at its original shape and layout. You can use third-party image editing programs, like Photoshop, to edit a picture before you add it to a slideshow, but Powerpoint itself actually has a good selection of image-editing tools that you can use to […]

Pictures can be a very important part of expressing your thoughts and ideas in a presentation. Sometimes you will have the opportunity to create and edit images specifically for your presentation, but other situations may have you adding images to slides that don’t have the option to edit beforehand. Luckily Powerpoint 2013 has its own […]

There are many different ways to create a slideshow in Powerpoint 2013. But many of the ways that you might choose will require you to use some form of list or sequence of ideas where you may want to highlight one specifically. An effective way to do this is with a large arrow that catches […]

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, and a column of slides at the left side of the window. This is the default “Normal” view, and it is probably the view in which you are most comfortable […]

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 is the use of sections to more easily define the segments of your presentation. These are especially useful when the small slide thumbnails look very similar to one another, making […]