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If you’ve ever been asked to “just throw together an org chart” for a meeting, you know it’s never quite as quick as it sounds. The good news is PowerPoint actually has some pretty solid tools for building organizational charts… no fancy design software required.   Whether you’re mapping out a small team or a…

If you’ve built your slides in Canva and now regret it because you’re trying to share them with someone who needs them in PowerPoint, you might feel like you’ve made a big mistake. Thankfully, you haven’t. If your boss, professor or peer doesn’t use Canva or needs the file in .pptx format for editing, there’s a…

If you’ve ever needed an infographic, you know just how difficult it can be to make them. Skilled designers made be able to use Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator to crank out an attractive and informational infographic in a short amount of time, but if you’re not one of them, you’re going to struggle.  Thankfully, you…

Tables in PowerPoint are useful, but they don’t always look great out of the box. The default borders are usually gray, a little thin and not always the best match for the rest of your slide. The good news is, it’s easy to change the border color to make your tables look more polished or aligned…

Transitions are those effects between slides that create a dissolving, fading or pushing effect as the PowerPoint goes from one slide to the next. They certainly have their place, but when they’re overused, inconsistent or set up in a deck you didn’t create, they can slow down your pacing or distract your audience. In some…

Want to make your PowerPoint move beyond the linear, “click‑through” slide deck? Linking slides gives you navigational flexibility. It’s useful for all kinds of scenarios or for simply skipping ahead without losing flow.  We’ll show you how to link a slide to another slide in your PowerPoint presentation, and once you know how, we bet you’ll…

Do you want to know how to create a table of contents in PowerPoint? Unfortunately, creating a table of contents in PowerPoint doesn’t happen with a simple menu click. It takes a little creative effort. But once you get the hang of it, you can build a dynamic TOC that gets your audience oriented and…

When you’re giving a presentation, especially something like a sales pitch, a classroom activity or a timed quiz, it helps to have a countdown. But if you’ve ever tried to add a timer to a PowerPoint slide, you’ve probably discovered it’s not exactly obvious how to do it.  The good news is, there are a…

Flipping shapes in PowerPoint is one of those things that sounds almost silly when you first hear it. When would you ever have to flip a shape? But once you get into making slides that actually look good and not just bullet points on a white background, you realize it’s pretty handy.  If you’ve ever…

It’s likely that you’ve never even thought about the dimensions of a PowerPoint slide before, at least not until this very moment. After all, why else would you be here? But if you’ve ever had your slides look weird on a big screen or printed out with giant margins, chances are it was a slide…

Text boxes in PowerPoint can be a useful tool or leave your slides looking messy if they’re not managed carefully. Whether you’re cleaning up an old slide deck, simplifying a busy slide or fixing a template someone else designed, knowing how to properly delete a text box is essential.  The process might seem simple at…

We’ve all been there… You’ve spent hours working on a PowerPoint presentation, and with just the click of a button, you accidentally delete the wrong slide or paste over the wrong text. If you didn’t save your PowerPoint file, this can cause you to panic. Of course, then you remember the Undo button. Just as…