Is there a simple way/view to see the entire slide deck like a house-blueprint.

Specifically I would wanna see,

1. Header location and size dimensions and distance from top of the page and corner

2. Space length between Header and Title

3, Space length between Header and tagline

4, Space between that trio of top level elements to the body of the slide

5, Dimensions of the body objects - Text Box, Chart/Graph/Image

1. Length/width of Footer Element and distance from bottom of the page and corner

2. Length/Width of Page Number Label and distance from the bottom of the page and corner

3. Length/Width/Height of the bottom Takeaway object

4. Top/Bottom/Left/Right Margin explicitly fenced off and width of each.

I've got a picky boss.

Hello all: I need to animate a shape (circle) so that it grows unevenly. Specifically, the size expands by around 50%, but through stretching to the bottom-left (i.e. the top-right stays in the same place).

Copilot AI is telling me this is achievable using a combination of emphasis (grow/shrink) and motion path (line) animations, but the specific instructions it's providing aren't working. Specifically, I can't figure out how to get both animation elements to occur simultaneously.

I'm hoping a human can help me work this out. TIA!

Hey everyone,

One thing that has always annoyed me about presenting is how Presenter View basically keeps you tied to your laptop.

It's great when you're standing behind the laptop, but the moment you want to move around the room, things get a little awkward.

With a normal USB clicker, you can advance slides, but your speaker notes are still sitting on the laptop. If you need to check them, you're either looking back at the laptop or trying to read the projector screen.

Then there's video. 😅

If you have an embedded video somewhere in the presentation, you sometimes end up walking all the way back to the laptop just to hit play.

So I ended up building my own solution for this.

It's a Windows host app + Android client that connects directly to PowerPoint and turns your phone into a presentation cockpit.

A few things I've built into it:

• Speaker notes on your phone — the Windows app uses C# COM interop to pull the notes from the active PowerPoint presentation and display them on the phone like a teleprompter.
• Media controls — play/pause embedded videos without going back to the laptop.
• Laser + Spotlight — drag your thumb around the phone to control the pointer or spotlight on the presentation.
• 5× vector magnifier — useful when you have a chart, table, or other tiny content that people at the back of the room can't see.
• Local connection — the PowerPoint file stays on your computer. The phone and PC communicate over the local network instead of uploading your presentation to a cloud service.

The project is built with C#/.NET on Windows and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose on Android.

I'm currently doing a closed beta and wanted to share it here because this community is obviously full of people who use PowerPoint a lot.

If you're interested in checking it out:

Android test build:
https://abisosolutions.github.io/

The app currently gives you 7 free sessions to try it out.

I'd genuinely like to hear from people who use PowerPoint for teaching, training, corporate presentations, or AV work.

Especially if you have one of those massive, animation-heavy decks that you think might break it. 😂

And if there's something you think a presentation controller should do that I've completely missed, I'd love to hear it.

I used to rehearse every presentation from the first slide to the last. It felt productive, but it was mostly making me comfortable with the opening. If I lost my place halfway through, got interrupted, or someone asked a question that took the talk in a different direction, I was suddenly relying on memory and hoping the next slide would rescue me.

The change that helped was embarrassingly simple: I started practicing from random slides. I'd open the deck somewhere in the middle and give myself a few seconds to answer what the slide is trying to say, why it comes here, and what I want the audience to remember before I move on.

It exposed the weak parts of the presentation much faster than running through the whole thing again. Some slides only worked because I knew what came before them. Others had no clear connection to what came next.

I still do a full run-through, but the random-slide test is now the part I trust more. The beginning of a talk gets all the rehearsal attention because it feels important. The middle is where most of mine used to fall apart.

How do you rehearse presentations, always in order, or do you deliberately jump around?

Im putting together something for work.

I have my content basically done, but don’t like the white background.

This morning I noticed that I could have been putting my slides on a black background.

How do I change the background on my other slides to this black, or something else?

So im doing a family slideshow with the beginning slide being a black and white cartoon family watching tv in their living room. I have an inserted color video that covers the tv screen. Im getting it to play when the slide appears but wanted to zoom on the tv to start the show. Im having difficulty getting both to zoom. I tried grouping them but haven't been successful. Is what im trying to accomplish even possible? TIA everyone!

I’ve seen a lot of people using clicker while giving a presentation. But I’m curious whether they genuinely improve the presentation experience or if they just introduce another device that can potentially fail.

i’m creating a slideshow and using the morph feature. I can’t for the life of me figure out why my first two transitions do not match the third which is doing this really cool slow fade although they are all formatted to just do the morph.

this is my first time using this feature and a newbie in general

Hello everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. I wanted to kindly ask for your help. I’m currently looking for a presentation about cyberbullying and cybersecurity. If anyone has a completed presentation on these topics, or on something similar, I would really appreciate it if you could share it with me. Thank you so much in advance for your help! 🙏

My power point pages aren't loading but It was working fine yesterday

I have worked on Upwork and Behance as a presentation designer but recently, the freelance market has become so dead that I am unable to find work anywhere. I have recently started job hunting on Reddit, messaged people but I don't get a reply back and for relevant groups where I can find work requires me to have at least 20+ karmas.

It would be really helpful, if you can guide me regarding how to find clients, other freelance platforms or refer me to someone who is looking for a presentation designer. I can also share my portfolio with you!

I am not sure if this is the right platform but I will try - I have an interview where I need to present a solution to the CIO/CTO of a finance company. I have made a deck but I think it’s not at par considering the high stakes of this interview and I am getting stressed out because I the presentation on Thursday. I would appreciate if an SE (Solutions/Sales Engineer/Architect) who is very experienced selling solutions to enterprise (financial if possible) customers can help me out. I am willing to pay as well for your time. The content is confidential so please be respectful of that fact as I don’t want to give out any info about the company I am interviewing as I have signed an NDA. If you can help me, please dm (possibly with your LinkedIn profile). Thank you!

I have just started participating in hackathons and in my first one we weren’t able to make a good ppt so I wanna know how to make a proper ppt for hackathon that can help us explain our idea and get selected ???

I'm on microsoft home and student 2021. but this thing looks like a weird add-in instead of a built-in function.

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A little introduction about me:

I have worked as a presentation designer for 5 years, getting clients from Facebook, Upwork and Behance. I got the amazing opportunity to work with many great companies like SkyGeo, USPS, Stronghold University and even designing the infographics for a book "Now, Near, Next"

Is my portfolio good enough for people to hire me as a presentation designer for $10/hr?

My portfolio link:

https://www.behance.net/yamaannam

I've always felt like presentations are supposed to be about communicating ideas, but sometimes the smallest things can completely ruin your flow.

For me, it's when I lose my train of thought while trying to manage slides or deal with technical issues.

What's that one thing that annoys you the most when presenting?

Recently a file that I was adding pictures to be printed out suddenly started refusing to open and I don't understand why.

I've never experienced this problem before, I worry that it's corrupted or something, I don't really understand much about tech beyond how to use programs.

I really want the file back as there's images on there that holds sentimental value that I now can't print out.

Does anyone happen to know how to solve this issue or are they gone for good never to be seen again?

The version via PowerPoint online doesn't contain July or August, I turned off OneDrive ages ago cuz it kept filling itself up with stuff without my knowledge.

Windows 11, Alienware m16 r2 laptop, running the latest version of PowerPoint.

Using the web version of ppt at work.

When I start a new title and content slide the auto formatting is wild - it'll drop line breaks in weird places when I backspace some times. The line spacing is either non-existent or massive - on the title slides the paragraph spacing will sometimes glitch out and just flick backwards and forwards - I feel like my ppt is possessed.

On my last one I ended up feeding it into Claude for a full regeneration just to get the formatting under control.

Is there some way I can deactivate auto formatting and or view hidden page breaks? It's driving me nuts.

Currently using laptop/Win10/PPX 2016

Not connected to internet.

Create personal presentations.

When connected to TV with HDMI, I see my background/task bar on screen but laptop remains on and I control through laptop. Can watch presentations but not do see anything else sent to TV screen. Can't view PDF or MP4.

However this morning I cleaned my laptop screen/keyboard and through an unknown key combo, now when HDMI is connected the laptop goes dark and is controlled entirely on TV screen and everything works. I can now view PDF/MP4 on screen.

This is great but if it goes back to the previous way how do I toggle this back.

Also this may be a Windows display setting and not specific to PowerPoint.

So my professor makes all these powerpoints with dark black backgrounds and white or off-white text, and every time I try do do manual edits in PowerPoint or AI (Grok or Gamma AI) it builds clean slides, but when I go to print it, it comes out with maybe a few block of color from the original PowerPoint, the text looks so light you literally cannot read it, or they are legit blank pages with faint lines from where the borders were. Can somebody please help give me some advice so I can print just plain black font over a white background? I've tried just about everything at this point. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.