You can buck the stereotype of PowerPoint presentations as bullet-pointed snoozefest. PowerPoint has a wealth of new graphics, layout, and animation features to liven up your deck. We’ll focus on how ...

Prior to Office 2007, the Drawing toolbar in Office applications contained a button labeled "Insert Diagram or Organization Chart." The toolbar no longer offers the button, but Office programs still ...

The Change Shape feature changes your graphic to a different graphic, preserving its formatting and size. Insert an icon into the slide and click the Graphics Format tab. Click the Change Graphic ...

You can manually create a custom Gantt chart from scratch using the native Chart menu of PowerPoint. In its Chart menu, you can find several types of standard charts including line, bar, area, pie, ...

PowerPoint will let you animate chart elements, but the option's not easy to find. If you don't know about it, you might not even go looking for it. You can animate just about anything in PowerPoint, ...

Anyone who’s sat through a freshman college lecture knows that PowerPoint presentations can be a real bore. But we’re all busy people, and no one has time to design the most engaging slideshow ...