PowerPoint receives praise for its ability to enable people who haven't trained as public speakers to make presentations to audiences, but it's also reviled as the reason so many good ideas fail to ...

In a recent visit to Microsoft’s Tablet PC site, I came across an article written by Joli Ballew that we could all benefit from: using your Tablet PC to give better PowerPoint presentations. Joli ...

There are some basic dos and don'ts you should keep in mind when constructing a PowerPoint presentation. For maximum impact on your audience, keep design in mind. The fonts and colors you choose can ...

Although public speaking is on the top of many people's list of anxieties, it's something most of us have to do for work, for church, for school, or for an organization we belong to. In the first part ...

There are few experiences more demoralizing than looking out at your audience during a presentation and seeing one of your coworkers out cold. Okay, so he was probably just tired. But a great ...

The experience of sitting through a truly terrible presentation is nearly universal. The dozens of identically-themed PowerPoint slides stacked with text, the useless handouts, the tense, miserable ...

Public speaking, including the delivery of PowerPoint presentations, can be a trial. There’s the need to pace yourself, as well as to avoid reading your slides word for word. Microsoft gets that.