Sharing Your Presentation Online

PowerPoint offers several options to enhance or even totally change the way you deliver presentations. Instead of presenting your slide show normally, you can choose to present it as a video, or you can even present it live online so others can view it remotely. No matter how you choose to give your presentation, you […]

Rehearsing and Recording Your Presentation

There are many things to keep in mind when preparing to give a presentation. How long will it last? What will you say? Fortunately, PowerPoint offers several tools that can help you rehearse your slide show. You can even record a copy with voiceover narration, allowing viewers to watch the presentation on their own. Rehearsing […]

Insert Action Buttons on Slides

Another tool you can use to connect to a webpage, file, email address, or slide is called an action button. Action buttons are built-in shapes you can add to a presentation and set to link to another slide, play a sound, or perform a similar action. When someone clicks or hovers over the button, the […]

Hyperlinks in PowerPoint Slides

Whenever you use the Internet, you use hyperlinks to navigate from one webpage to another. If you want to include a web address or email address in your PowerPoint presentation, you can choose to format it as a hyperlink so a person can easily click it. It’s also possible to link to files and other […]

Slide Master View

You may have noticed that when you select a different theme in PowerPoint, it rearranges the text on your slides and adds shapes to the background. This is because each theme has built-in slide layouts and background graphics. You can edit these layouts with a feature called Slide Master view. Once you learn how to […]

Modifying Themes in PowerPoint Slides

Let’s say you really like the style of a theme, but you’d like to experiment with different color schemes. That’s not a problem: You can mix and match colors, fonts, and effects to create a unique look for your presentation. If it still doesn’t look exactly right, you can customize the theme any way you […]