While it’s likely that you have used the spell check in Powerpoint to check spelling on your slides and in your text boxes, you may want to check for more than just spelling errors. Fortunately you can also check for grammar errors by enabling an option found on the Powerpoint Options window. Spell check is … Read more
While Microsoft Powerpoint is easier to manage when you are presenting on a screen, it can typically look fine when you need to print out a slide show. But you may be wondering how to change your paper size if you are designing a printed presentation and using a non-default paper size. Printing on legal … Read more
Powerpoint has a lot of different options for adding elements to a slideshow but some of them, like making curved text in Powerpoint, can be a little tough to find. The visual nature of a Powerpoint presentation typically means that the aesthetics of your slide elements are an important coontributor to how much your audience … Read more
Powerpoint slides are in the landscape, or horizontal, orientation by default. But you may have a presentation that would be better if it were in the portrait orientation, so you may be wondering how to make a Powerpoint slide vertical. Our tutorial below is going to show you how to switch your presentation so that … Read more
While the content that you include on the slides in your Powerpoint presentation will often vary from slide to slide, there might be information or page elements that you would like to include on every slide. Whether this is your name, your company name, or the title of the presentation, it can be helpful to … Read more
Occasionally you may find yourself creating a Powerpoint presentation that includes a section that is meant to teach people how to use a tool or program on their computer. One of the best ways to do this typically involves the use of screenshots. You may be familiar with taking screenshots on your computer, but there … Read more
You may find yourself in a situation where you need to learn how to loop a Powerpoint presentation if you are creating something that is meant to be displayed for a long period of time. Manually restarting a presentation repeatedly can be inconvenient and a waste of time, so an automated method is preferable in … Read more
We have previously written about adding YouTube videos in Powerpoint, which lets you add a video element to your presentation. But you may encounter a situation where you are creating a presentation in Powerpoint that needs to be in the MPEG-4 (MP4) video format. While your initial thought might be that you will need extra … Read more
Even if you have spent an extraordinary amount of time crafting the perfect presentation about a topic that you know inside and out, it can be difficult to give a presentation. Public speaking can be overwhelming, and large presentations often contain a high number of slides, making it difficult to memorize everything you want to … Read more
While there are several different slide formats that you can select from when you create a new slide, it’s pretty common for you to add or remove slide elements to format the slide in the way that you require. But if you tinker with that slide layout too much, you might find that you can’t … Read more