Whether it’s the office standard or you’ve simply used it forever, Microsoft’s PowerPoint ( ; $400 as part of Office 2008) is a terrific tool for presenting your thoughts and ideas to colleagues.

To help you get started, CIO.com asked Ayca Yuksel, the product manager for Microsoft Office PowerPoint, to share five design tips and five technical tricks for those who are new to the application.

PowerPoint skills are the modern equivalent of fire: Absolutely essential to your survival. If you missed these the first time around, check them out today, because they can help you prepare a much ...

If you are facing any problem creating a PPT or you want to work with someone to create a special PowerPoint presentation, you can invite that person or share a link to let him/her edit your ...

This question originally appeared on Quora: What is the best way to give a PowerPoint presentation? Answer by Mira Zaslove, given a lot of presentations, some more successful than others, on Quora ...

Almost any PowerPoint presentation would benefit from clever animation. And, lucky for us, the Internet has an endless supply of animated templates that you can download for free (or for a nominal fee ...

Cliff Atkinson inspires me every time he writes about how to use PowerPoint to engage rather than lecture to audiences. While PowerPoint is, for too many people, one of the things that is broken in ...

We found a great compilation of PowerPoint tips and tricks to enhance your skills using Microsoft PowerPoint on YouTube. They combined long-established tips and tricks featured in previous videos with ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by ICAS in the Feb. 26, 2016, issue of CA Today. 1. Easily insert screenshots. If your presentation is all about demonstrating a process that is ...

Let’s be honest: Everyone has used (and likely abused) PowerPoint before. Microsoft’s presentation program is more than 20 years old, and although Redmond works very hard at keeping one of its primary ...