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Animations in the slides can make the learning experience more engaging and effective. There are different options in PowerPoint for animations and transitions. You might have seen the use of morph transition PowerPoint effects. How to add morph transition in PowerPoint and how to make objects in slides animate easily? We will discuss the basics…

Have you ever wondered how you already know where to enter the title and where to add images in a PowerPoint slide? Well, all of this is possible due to placeholders in PowerPoint. We open a presentation slide, the container says, “Click to add title” and another container says, “Click to add subtitle.” What is…

PowerPoint is a complete presentation software with unlimited design opportunities. Today, online resources have made it easier for users to find different visual elements and custom shapes. Do you know how to make a curved arrow in PowerPoint without using additional resources? Yes, PowerPoint has built-in tools and options to make curved arrows and other…

Matching colors in a PowerPoint for different elements is not easy. You see professionally designed templates and wonder how the designer has maintained the color consistency throughout the slides. Well, you can also do the same by learning how to use the eyedropper in PowerPoint. There are different tools in PowerPoint that make working with…

Presenting formulae, symbols and powers in the right format is important to maintain the professionalism of the slides. Many users don’t pay attention to superscripts and subscripts in PowerPoint. Surprisingly, we understand that some of you may not have an idea that superscript is and how to subscript in PowerPoint. If you are an instructor,…

Videos, audio, and other types of media files are important parts of PowerPoint presentations. Some users may face trouble playing media files. If you are also facing issues like PowerPoint cannot play media, how to fix this issue? There are many reasons that might trigger a media playback error in PowerPoint. Understanding the real reason…

PowerPoint presentations can have multiple slides, even up to a hundred slides. If you are asked to delete all slides at once, how to select all slides in PowerPoint? Don’t you think that selecting 100 slides one by one will take quite long? There should be a better way to select all slides in a…

Working on a long PowerPoint presentation can be frustrating. You spend 20-30 minutes on a slide and then move to the next slide, which is similar to the last one. Have you ever wondered how to duplicate a slide in PowerPoint to speed up the process? Is it possible to duplicate a slide to use…

Human touch can make any learning experience more engaging and effective. Students can pay more attention if video narration is available to explain complicated topics. As an instructor, teacher, or marketer, how do you record yourself on PowerPoint? How to record a presentation where you can add real-time video recording of yourself explaining the slides?…

Flow charts are one of those tools that sound more complicated than they are. At the end of the day, you’re just drawing shapes, connecting them with arrows and showing how something moves from one step to the next. And while most people think of specialized diagram tools like Lucidchart or Visio, the truth is,…

If you’ve ever sat in a meeting and heard someone say, “Send me your deck,” you might have wondered if they just mean your PowerPoint. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t. And that’s where the confusion starts.  Most of us use the terms “slide deck” and “PowerPoint presentation” interchangeably, but they’re not actually identical. The…

PowerPoint allows copying content or slides from one presentation to another, just like copying data from one folder to another. Right, left clicks, and CTRL-C, CTRL-V keys are also usable for copying slides. When you are working on multiple presentations, you must learn how to copy slides from one PowerPoint to another. If two presentations…