Article Click in a placeholder or text box, and indents and tab stops appear on the horizontal ruler. (To show rulers, press ALT+SHIFT+F9.)

Article Discover how you can use dashboards in your PowerPoint presentations to communicate or compare a range of information to your audience.

Article You can show the current slide number and total number of slides on all slides in your presentation. For example, 1 of 12 slides, 2 of 15 slides, etc.

Article To change the slide number that appears on the first slide in your presentation, do the following: On the Design tab, in the Page Setup group, click Page S...

Article You can use a picture or color as the background for one or more slides. Similarly, you can add a picture or text watermark to part of the slide background.

Article You can more easily sort your slides in PowerPoint 2010 by grouping them into sections.

Article To set orientation, use the Page Setup options (Design tab). To show portrait and landscape slides in the same presentation, use the workaround in this article.

Article Grouping shapes, pictures, or objects lets you rotate, flip, resize or arrange them together, as though they were a single shape or object.

Article Show All Hide All To add a slide that contains the content of an existing slide in a presentation, you can duplicate the slide.  Important    If you need paste ...

Article Read how MVP Sandy Johnson uses the new Sections feature in PowerPoint 2010 to create winning sales presentations.

Article If your presentation contains slides that provide different levels of detail, perhaps for different audiences, you can hide these slides so that they are not di...

Article Whether you are editing slides in the Slide pane, working with slide thumbnails on the Slides tab, or creating an outline for your presentation on the Outline t...

Article In Part 7 of this series, Bruce Gabrielle gives you a few more techniques, such as using quotes, or using audio and video to make your presentations memorable.

Article When objects on a slide are st acked on top of each other, it can be difficult to select individual objects . For example, you might want to select one obje...

Article In Part 6 of this series, Bruce Gabrielle discusses classic storytelling elements: a three act structure, a case study, an above-water argument, and theme.

Article When you create a presentation, you may want to change the order of your slides. In the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click the Slides tab. On...

Article Tells how to copy and paste slides within same or to another presentation and where the Paste Options button is in PowerPoint 2010.

Article In Part 5 of this series, Bruce Gabrielle gives you tips about using an Inciting Incident - the thing that disturbs the hero's world - in your presentations.

Article In Part 4 of this series, Bruce Gabrielle illustrates how to begin your presentation with a springboard story, an analogy, or a metaphor.

Article To reorder objects on a slide, right-click the object (or set of grouped objects), and then click Bring to Front or Send to Back.

Article PowerPoint expert Robert Lane writes about what colors and color combinations work best in PowerPoint presentations. He also shows you what colors to avoid and ...

Article What do you want to do? Change header and footer information on your slides Change header and footer information on your notes and handouts Delete header and fo...

Article Show All Hide All You can change a header or footer placeholder (placeholders: Boxes with dotted borders that are part of most slide layouts. These boxes hold t...

Article To edit a layout, do the following: On the View tab, in the Master Views group, click Slide Master . In the pane that contains the slide masters and layouts, cl...

Article Bruce Gabrielle a PowerPoint trainer and author discusses storytelling and how to use basic storytelling techniques in your PowerPoint presentation.