PowerPoint Tip: You need permission to use YouTube videos

One of the most frequent topics on the PowerPoint newsgroups and forums is how to include YouTube videos in a presentation. People find a co...

Using a tablet or e-reader for Speaker Notes

One of the sessions I’ll be presenting at the Presentation Summit conference this September in Austin, TX is on the topic of being more envi...

Editing old graphs in PowerPoint 2007/10

One of the major changes between PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007 is the way that graphs are created. In PowerPoint 2003 and earlier vers...

PowerPoint Tip: Why You Shouldn’t Use Google Images to Find Photos

In my workshops, whenever I speak about using photos in a presentation, someone always asks about Google Images. It is so easy to find pictu...

PowerPoint Tip: Prepare for Problems so you Respond, not React

At a conference in February I heard Bo Boshers share a story of two groups who faced the same situation and had very different reactions. On...

PowerPoint Tip: Formatting text in a table

Recently I wrote about how to format text on slides because text will always be a part of our slides. Today I want to take the topic further...

PowerPoint Tip: Using Exit animation to reveal a graphic

The last step in my five-step KWICK method from my book The Visual Slide Revolution is to Keep the Focus of the audience. The best way to d...