On July 31, 1987, Microsoft made an announcement that would forever change the world of business communications, when, after much debate and hesitancy from its CEO Bill Gates, the company announced ...

A highly practical four-week masterclass in how to use PowerPoint as a tool for telling compelling stories with data, with information design experts Tobias Sturt and Adam Frost Online workshop Date: ...

As a professional or student in today's world, chances are that you will have to make a slide presentation at some point in your work. In business, academic, and otherwise settings, these ...

If you have worked in an office in the Western world in the past 25 years, you will probably have sat through a PowerPoint presentation. But there's a problem. They're often boring, writes ...

If you’re tasked with creating a presentation for work or school, you should probably learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint, one of the best slideshow creation tools around. Here’s what you need to ...

Blamed for a rise in passive behaviour, and a decline in curiosity among young people, this software is divisive – loved by some, hated by others – but has it had its day? This story is from ...

There may come a time when you want to shuffle slides in PowerPoint randomly. This is great for someone who wants to surprise viewers during a presentation, for example, students. Now, we should note ...

A PowerPoint presentation with low-quality images can be a turnoff. Presenting important data to clients or potential clients with images that are low-quality may cause you those clients. Low quality ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The aesthetic of our age was shaped in Paris in 1992, in the Hotel Regina. The occasion was carefully ...