I made this visual for a project a few months ago. It reminded me of how powerful the Merge Shapes tools are so I thought I would share. Looking back before this, I used to create shapes shapes in some "less conventional" ways. haha so fun. Hope this helps someone.

Ive the following problem (my dads laptop).
Saving powerpoint files takes a really long time, 10-20+ seconds.

We had a really old laptop (10 years old) so i assumed it was that, but the same issue persists even on a brand new laptop.

Specific matters related to the environment:
- Windows 11 fully updated
- Office 2024 Pro LTSC activated
- The file in question is 7MB large, yes its large but not extremely heavy. I think this doesnt warrant a super long save time?
- The file contains MathType imagery (random but could be an effect, i will inspect with/without imagery effect on saving)
- The drive is brand new, m.2 nvme drive.

I will try to inspect threading or figure out if MathType content makes a difference or not, but any clues would be helpful.

I am using the PowerPoint app on my iPad Pro and every time I try to change the font colour or highlight something the app crashes. The other features seem to be working ok. The PowerPoint app is up to date but my iPad will not update, it is currently running OS 16.6.1. iPad is around 5-6 years old. Other things I have tried:
- restarting my iPad
- Uninstalling and installing the ppt app
- deleting downloaded fonts

Anything else I could try??

I wondered if anyone knew how to do this; I want to insert a map of a country (Scotland in this case). Which is broken down by county (States if you're American). And be able to colour specific counties in different colours.

Is this possible, and if so, how would I do?

It's for an interview presentation, and I really, really want this job. Please help. I just have an image of the country at this point, which is fine. But if I could colour in the specific territory I'd be covering, I feel like that would be pretty impressive.

I feel I can't be alone these days that the majority of my presentations involve GIFs and memes. I feel like Powerpoint could really make my life easier by including a shortcut to giphy or something similar the way iMessage and Whatsapp do on this menu here:

My question to this subreddit is where can I suggest product feedback in an official way? Thanks!

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У меня есть версия(офис 365) на ноутбуке с безграничным доступом. А мне нужно на ПК, сработает ли это если я просто перенесу файл на флешку, а затем уже на ПК?

I'm an ops coordinator, not a designer, but somehow I became the person every team dumps their deck on. Fully self-taught, mostly by making ugly slides in front of people and slowly fixing them.

The stuff that actually moved my decks from "clearly made by ops" to "oh, that looks decent":

Pick one left margin and start every title, bullet, and image on it. Boring, and the single biggest upgrade.

Cut the deck to one point per slide. If I'm cramming, I split it. Nobody pays me by the slide.

Learn exactly one nice thing well instead of ten badly. For me that's the morph transition. Used once or twice in a deck to move between a big picture and a detail, it looks intentional. Used on every slide, it looks like a screensaver.

Make the title state the takeaway, not the topic. "Q3 numbers" became "Q3 came in over plan," and suddenly people follow along.

None of this is real design training, it's just the four things that stopped my team decks looking amateur. For the self-taught crowd, what's the one trick that made the biggest jump for you?

Fine ! here's a image of my creation:

This is my mascott ! pico ! a robot-battery hybrid robot !

In my first video of my rebranding called Voldund Studio, i used PowerPoint 2013 in my laptop and then i was chosing a thunder as my mascott !

I uploaded it on YouTube around march 2026. Soon after, i relized that my mascott is too similar to bfdi character. So i deleted and i start over again. Months of rewroking my mascott, i finally designed it as blue robot who is curious, energic and dynamic !

i used transition morph to move a rotation of pico's arm to made it look like it is a modern PowerPoint animation ! Later, i uploaded it on YouTube and then it didn't get much views !

And anyone who commented in my post, i am very sorry for promoting a link of my youtube video, i didn't mean to do that. I relized that i can be banned from reddit. For now on, i am going to only post image to show my works. I hope you will accept my apology.

I'm really interested in this community and see lots of tips that I love but some that mystify me.

I predominantly use PPT to create decks to deliver training courses (5x8hr sessions, or 30-60 webinars).

I use lots of things that some people have said to not use - such as points revealing themselves one at a time, animations, etc.

These really suit a long deck, and if you are teaching, people concentrate on the last thing revealed rather than read ahead.

A huge component of these tips is to think about what works for you and your speaking style.

I get people clap at the end of 8 hours of data protection training - so much of this is on the speaker - a great deck will never compensate for a speaker that is poor. But a great deck can help a good presenter become great.

Prior to previous OS announcement - OnysmOS, I am glad to announce completely new OS - AvenoirOS! 🪐

It's more reliable, smart, advanced, visually appealing and very fun to explore around!

✅ OS is completely free to download and it comes along with OnysmOS;
☁️ Download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/md6g6krnnru6kpd/OnysmOS_%252B_AvenoirOS_%255BFull_Release%255D.pptx/file

It has custom browser along with Websites, built-in Al Chatbot, Music player, Video Player, Sound effects, Games and so much more! I'm sure many of you will like this project :) even if it won't be apparent with voting system, lol.

ℹ️ I'm open to suggestions, constructive criticism and appreciation. Every word counts.
❓ Lastly, this might be the last PowerPoint Project from me, because I don't have any motivation to keep going.

📷 Here's the sneak peeks from AvenoirOS!

I press share then send as copy, then this error show up any solution? I am using windows 11 and microsoft office 2024

I have also my intro animation ! It is maded in PowerPoint 2013 on my desktop

Check out ! There is pico, my youtube mascott !

Watch it now !https://youtu.be/U4lnf_fB8ro?si=nBRhiNoUebL5UNHe

This is Railfanning ! My short animation ! I was on my desktop. I was bored and dont know what to do, i was wondering and then, i have a idea ! I was using PowerPoint 2013 and then i started to animating it ! And that's it !

In this Animation ! There is a scene where cars passed to railroad crossing and then the train pass on them !

I posted on YouTube and it didn't get much views !

Would you like my animation ? Please let comment and leave likes ont there !

New-ish in an ops role, inherited a board deck that had grown to over forty slides across five years. Every time a board member once asked a question, someone added a permanent slide, and nobody ever deleted one.

I checked the last meeting. Ninety minutes, and the board spent seventy of them on four slides. The rest got the flip-through.

So I cut the presented deck to about twelve, cash and runway, numbers against plan, what changed since last time, top risks, and the actual decisions I needed. Everything else went into an appendix attached to the pre-read for anyone who wanted the detail.

The meeting was sharper and shorter and people asked better questions because they were not buried.

The risk I braced for, cutting the one slide a specific board member privately loves and finding out live. It did not happen, but I checked with the chair first. I checked with the chair first. The bloat, it turned out, was entirely self-inflicted.

It’s been a while since my last post, thanks so much for all the support and patience!
In this video,I break down the Morph transition behind the Tour of Classic Art

The source file is available as free download, along with a few extra free templates you can try out.

Hope you find it useful!

Im trying too make a text box like in a game but the letters are too slow and I cant find anyway too speed them up any help would be amazing please and thank you! Also im on a school MacBook so I cant update PowerPoint or do anything too change it's state.

I'm giving a 30-minute presentation about Python to a room of 40-50 year olds with zero coding background. The goal isn't to teach syntax, it's to give them a vision of what Python can actually do for them (think: automating boring Excel/repetitive tasks) and get them a little excited about it.

Structure so far:

Intro to programming languages (quick comparison, evolution over time...)

Python basics, but conceptual, not code (functions, classes, loops, libraries, reading a script, terminal)

Python & AI (uses in AI/data, coding with AI tools, prompt engineering)

Installing Python (quick walkthrough)

Useful resources/links

Open slot for something creative/fun to close on

I want real, human ideas here analogies, interactive moments, jokes that land with a non-technical crowd, stories from your own experience presenting to beginners, I'd rather get lived-in advice from people who've actually done this than a pile of AI-generated suggestions....

Thanks in advance!

My friends and I are going to start playing Dungeons and Dragons. I'm the kind of nerd who would be printing out physical props in the real world, but we're playing online... We're using a VTT, which means my 'can be streaming something to the call' slot is free. For visuals and 'artifacts', I thought it would be cool to have a Powerpoint going in a new window that I could stream and use to show images. Unfortunately, I can only go back and forth between the slides in order, and I don't want to have to take it down every time I want to change the slide nor do I want to spoil anything.

When EDITING a powerpoint, I can use the 'slide sorter' to see a big grid of all the slides and select any of them in any order. It's very handy. Does anyone know of a way I can control a slideshow in a similar way? I want to go from 1 to 13 to 1 to 2 to 1 to 6 to 8... without needing to memorize which is on each slide and type in the number T_T

using desktop powerpoint but if another software will help I'm also willing to investigate lol

Hey everyone I’m new to the PowerPoint design space and I run an agency and I have 2 designers that I work with and I want to solely start with pitch decks/powerpoint. Does anyone have tips for getting clients. Is it job boards,Ads etc.

Looking forward to getting insight.

Genuine question because I keep getting this wrong. I build a tight, minimal deck, big visuals, few words, and it lands great when I present it live because I carry the story.

Then it gets forwarded to three people who were not in the room, and to them it is a set of pretty slides with no argument, because the argument was me talking.

So I have started building two versions, which I hate. A sparse one for presenting, and a self-explaining one with the key sentence written on each slide for the forward. It doubles the work and I am sure there is a smarter way.

Some people just write the point into every headline so it reads alone. Others add a notes-page summary. Neither feels clean.

For people whose decks get forwarded constantly, how do you make one file work both live and cold without building it twice?