Learn how to create professional PowerPoint slides from scratch using best practices in consulting, finance, and strategy.

Creating a presentation can feel like a daunting task, especially when faced with the blank canvas of a new slide deck. Whether you’re preparing for a high-stakes business pitch, a classroom lecture, ...

Microsoft PowerPoint has a feature that allows users to add numbers to their slides. This feature is useful when your presentation contains many slides. If your slides have numbers on them, you can ...

Putting page numbers in a PowerPoint presentation can help you keep track of where you are when you're presenting. It can also help if you're printing your presentation, or if you're dividing up the ...

What if you could transform your PowerPoint presentations from ordinary to extraordinary with just a few strategic tweaks? In this walkthrough, Simon Sez IT shows how the latest PowerPoint features of ...

Formatting should always be either the last or the first part. Doing it at the end ensures you are past your final content, and all you need to do is make it look right. So follow the steps to change ...

You’re on your way to the conference room when you suddenly realize that you used your company’s old logo throughout your 120-slide presentation. If you were using slide masters, you’d be just a few ...

If you don’t want the same rectangular pictures for your Microsoft PowerPoint slide show, create a custom-shaped picture placeholder and make it available to the presentation via a layout slide.

Master slides are the slide layouts that are built into a slide deck. Within the master slides, the very first slide in the slide deck is the slide master and the following slides are the layout ...