10 useful tips, tricks, how-to?s about Microsoft PowerPoint

What?s common between a business meeting, a motivational presentation or just a simple session? Microsoft PowerPoint. This gem of an application has changed the way through which presentations can be conducted in a seamless manner.

With the end of 2012, the PowerPoint team tracked the stats and analytics to come up with a list of the top 10 posts in 2012 about Microsoft PowerPoint. If PowerPoint is one of your frequently-used program, you would love to read on.

Top ten posts in 2012 about Microsoft PowerPoint:

1. Tips for turning your Excel data into PowerPoint charts
   Ever wish you could get the critical data from your Excel charts into a PowerPoint slide without having to manually add it again? PowerPoint MVP Ellen Finkelstein?provides a step-by-step guide to make adding an Excel chart to PowerPoint work like magic.
2. PowerPoint 2013: Presentation is Everything
   The themes in the new PowerPoint give you a fast way to?have a professional presentation?that also expresses your individual style.
3. Use PowerPoint slide layouts to make presentations memorable
   Help your audience to follow your presentation and remember your main points by making key slides distinctive.
4. Free training: Learn to create PowerPoint animations
   Add some visual pizzazz to your presentation?by reading these?tutorials on how to animate text, charts, shapes, and more.
5. Make an image within an image stand out
   Bruce Gabrielle, author of?Speaking PowerPoint, gives a video demonstration of PowerPoint transitions and artistic effects to make part of an image focus while making another part fade into the background.
6. Crop around irregular images
   Part 2 of Bruce Gabrielle?s video demo of making an image within an image stand out.
7. PowerPoint 2013: Eyedropper
   One of the coolest new features in PowerPoint?now you can color-match between presentations and across formats, such as a website or picture.
8. Guy Kawasaki?s guide on pitching to venture capitalists
   Popular guest blogger Guy Kawasaki teams up with the Office Web Apps team to give you a step-by-step guide to building a business case and a flawless PowerPoint pitch.
9. Webinar: Better PowerPoint Presentations
   How-tos for presenting in PowerPoint, including using the Notes section, using Presenter?s View, tips for presenting in a conference room, and more.
10. Webinar: PowerPoint tips
    Learn how to start PowerPoint quickly, organize slides at a glance, work with the outline tab, and more.

The PowerPoint team did a commendable job is compiling these helpful posts under a single list.

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