PowerPoint Tips

Updated on 14th July 2023 What are some smart PowerPoint tips that can help me ace my next presentation? If a similar query has brought you here, then this would probably be the last guide that you will read. PowerPoint by Microsoft is the most popular tool to create all...

It’s almost a miracle if a person can get through life without having to sit through one, let alone many, boring and ugly PowerPoint presentations. For most of us, these less-than-thrilling presentations are a part of our everyday lives. What’s worse is when we are the very people who subject...

PowerPoint has been around for more than two decades, so long that nobody in the millennial generation can even imagine listening to a lecture or giving their own presentation without it. Despite its longevity, the way most people use it is surprisingly unchanged. Slides have either dark backgrounds with white...

Credibility. When others have it, it gives us the confidence to accept what they have to say. Speaker credibility is what ultimately will help you influence your audience and get them to take action. But what is credibility and how can a person go about getting some? Credibility is all...

If you are reading this blog post, chances are you (and your audience) have been a victim of one or more mind-numbingly boring PowerPoint presentations. You know, those presentations where you have slide after slide of nothing but bullet points. Besides being incredibly dull to look at, when you have...

Any person with basic computer skills can create professional-looking slides for their presentations if they adopt a strategy of audience first. The secret of great slide design isn’t merely an aptitude for design and years of training, though undeniably, both of those help. But if you don’t have that, you...

A presentation plays an important role in both business and education, considering how it can boost our retention. When we read something, we retain approximately 20% of the material, however, when videos, images, and audio feed are involved, the amount of retained information rises up to 60% and even higher....

Designing a presentation in PowerPoint, Prezi or any other platform can look rather easy. However, once we start we begin to doubt ourselves, questioning whether we’ve used the right layout. This is the point when we decide to use a template and play it safe. Of course, it is important...

. . . . . . Supplementary material can add a great deal to a speech. This is particularly true when you use slides in a presentation - not at all difficult to set up and certainly easy to use. Remember, however, that the slides are not the speech. They...

A study shows that on the average - no matter how many slides you use in a presentation - the audience is going to remember only four of them, though they may have some vague memories of a few others. Four slides, you may think! That’s ridiculous. Maybe so, but...