If you ask anyone what they think of PowerPoint presentations, they’ll probably give you a strong reaction. But whether you love, hate, or want to ban them from your world forever, the truth is that ...

Go from text prompts to slide decks in minutes with CNET's guide on creating a PowerPoint presentation using artificial intelligence tools. Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She ...

Steve Jobs speaking at a press conference for Apple’s iPhone 4. Getty “There’s something in the air.” With these five words, Steve Jobs opened the 2008 Macworld conference. Jobs is often cited as one ...

PowerPoints are awful. Long and uninteresting, they are the corporate drone of visual media–synonymous with endless meetings, academic conferences, and corporate retreats. For graphic designers, ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT-4, Claude 3 Opus, and Google Gemini 1.5 Pro has introduced a transformative approach to creating PowerPoint presentations, a task once exclusive to human ...

Employing the same design techniques that web developers use, you can make transparent and translucent shapes appear on top of other objects in your business PowerPoint presentations. These shapes, ...

Microsoft PowerPoint turned 25 this past year... ...and, like many of its contemporaries, it’s having a bit of a quarter life crisis. When PPT was the new kid on ...

How to use SmartArt to create interesting lists in a PowerPoint presentation Your email has been sent You don't need specialized design skills to turn your boring lists into something interesting and ...

Instead of spending hours perfecting a slide deck -- only for it to be unused or be over the top -- there's a way you can bypass working long hours and just whip something up in the theme you want, ...

Powerpoint presentations are a great way to share information with a team, but making them is a skillset in its own right. We've got guides on general Powerpoint use, but if you're keen to just get ...