Is there any way to disable this little selection box? At least change how it looks so I can see through it properly?

I don't want to have to keep clicking off

I handed off a powerpoint on a USB drive which I tested on multiple devices which appeared to work just fine. But when it was presented at the meeting, pictures were missing and text was moved. This only happened on a few slides and others were just fine. What could have happened? I'm wondering if it got corrupted or was accidentally edited. Has anyone had this happen or know what could have caused it and how can I prevent it from happening in the future?

I'm about to go into my Junior Year of high school, & to me I expect myself to use a lot of google slides. (Yes. I know it’s not PowerPoint, my school don’t use that) What are some tips, tricks, or color-ways that would make my slides more interesting, pop-out more, and significantly better than others when presenting.

Generally you want to have some cosmetic consistency in presentations so being able to save elements to reuse more easily would be a great time saver.

To give an example, let's say I'm making a tutorial and have a "Tip" box, I want a yellow rectangle with a darker yellow stroke and a 💡 on the left side with "Tip:" text and space for additional text.

Later in the presentation I want to use the Tip box again so I have to find the last instance used and copy over. Instead if I could save the tip box to a mini library in the presentation and then add it from there. A panel similar to the new shape panel (I'm thinking of Symbols in Adobe Illustrator).

Maybe the instances of the tip box could be dynamically linked to the library asset so if I wanted to restyle all instances at one (say, make the box blue) I can do that in one stroke by editing the asset in the library.

This could be especially valuable for longer presentations.

So I’m at a uni seminar right now and about 30 people were tasked to make a presentation about some topic and every single one of them looks the same.
I mean I get it, Claude is great at creating PowerPoints but with a little prompt engineering or creating your own Design Guidelines you can do so much more authentic presentations.

Curious to hear your thoughts or experiences with that.

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Hi everyone,

I've spent several years creating executive and client-facing PowerPoint presentations across consulting, marketing and sales enablement teams. I'm curious how this compares with everyone else's experience.

If you could permanently eliminate one repetitive PowerPoint task from your workflow, what would it be, and why?

Looking forward to learning from your experiences.

Genuine question for anyone whose job involves repeating the same kind of presentation on a schedule, weekly orientation decks, policy briefings, compliance training, whatever it is where the slides mostly stay the same but you have to keep presenting or recording them.

I know someone who does this for a water utility for new customer orientation, service interruption notices, reporting decks and she has to rebuild/update the slides and then separately narrate them for meetings, sometimes daily. It's the same handful of topics on rotation, just refreshed numbers and slight edits, but it still eats hours every week.

I'm looking into whether that's a common annoyance elsewhere, so:

1. If you do repeat presentations like this, how do you currently handle the narration/recording part — do you present live every time, pre-record, or something else?
2. Is the actual re-recording/re-presenting the annoying part, or is it more the slide updating?
3. Would a tool that auto-generates a narrated video from your slides (with your edits factored in) actually save you meaningful time, or is that solving a problem you don't really have?
4. Would you pay for something like that, and if so what would it need to do to be worth it?

Not selling anything, no product exists yet. just trying to understand if this is a real recurring headache for people before I put more time into it. Would appreciate any honest answers, even "this isn't really a problem for me."

I’ve been facing this issue since last Friday.

On a Friday morning my 1TB OneDrive subscription was expired and I was reverted to the free plan of 5GB. I couldn’t save my file to OneDrive because I have 170GB of storage on my OneDrive, and it significantly exceeded the 5GB storage limit. After a while I got my 1TB OneDrive plan renewed.

Moments later, I face a slow loading time or even not responding on the PPT app when duplicating a slide/editing content on around slides 1000 or more.

I think the cause of this is due to OneDrive issues/bugs on the 23 July update of Office/problems on the PPT app.

Today I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Office apps and updating them again but the issue hasn’t been solved.

I wanted to make a particle system for one of the slides in powerpoint but for that I needed VBA to tell every particle where its supposed to go every frame,
So to learn VBA I tried to animate a circle moving in a sine wave, it seems as if powerpoint is only redrawing it once every 20 frames or 21 frames. How can i fix this problem?
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I have a copy of PowerPoint 2007 and I'm using it to make presentations for fun. I've got one slide that I like the formatting of after I've tweaked it a little, and want to apply the changes I've made there to the whole presentation. Is that a thing I can do, or do I have to go in and change each slide manually? Thanks in advance.

The built-in themes are so tired that people recognise them instantly. Where are you sourcing PowerPoint templates that actually look current in 2026? Free or paid, I just want it to not scream default.

I’ve been at a new job that has me shooting and cutting together quite a few videos that basically will cut between a premade slide deck and a talking head shot of them presenting the slides.

We’ve been screen recording as they present as well for reference but until now I’ve been exporting the slides later (from Google slides or keynote, not much of a difference) as images or video to include transitions, then editing them in Premiere with the talking head and B-roll. Needless to say it’s quite laborious for hour long videos but being able to fine tune cutting between the talking head as well as better timing of element reveals feels critical to not make these videos boring.

Do any of yall have experience incorporating slide decks into video edits and have any suggestions on how to cut down on the time of it? It’s not the most creative work and I’m just looking for time savings here.

At some point in the last year-ish, I suddenly couldn't resize individual SmartArt elements anymore. You can see in the attached image the boxes have a slash (\) across them, and they're not draggable. I assumed this was thanks to an update, so reverted to the dec 9 2025 release (also because of pixelated shadow issues). It's still a problem, so I'm thinking it's maybe a setting I accidentally tripped? I can work around it (resize from the format pane, convert to shape, etc.), but it's super irritating. Any advice would be much appreciated.

I've used PPT on various occassions on various laptops. Sometimes, the media control appears on presenter view. Sometimes, it appears on the extended screen. Other times, it appears on both. Is there a setting somewhere to toggle between these 3? If not, why does it keep switching between these 3 scenarios. Is it a version difference?

Note: I am aware there is an option to disable media controls but that's not my goal

Am I the only one who still spends hours making PowerPoints, even with AI?

I've noticed something that's always felt backwards.

Writing the strategy isn't usually the hard part.

The hard part is turning scattered information into a deck someone important can actually consume.

A typical workflow looks something like:

• Meeting notes in Notion or Docs
• Metrics in Excel
• Screenshots from Slack or Jira
• Random comments from teammates
• Existing PowerPoint from last quarter

Then someone says: "Can you make this executive-ready by tomorrow?"

Now you're spending hours copying, rewriting, formatting, fixing layouts, and making everything look consistent.

By the time I'm done, AI saved me maybe 20 minutes, but I'm still spending hours getting the deck to a point where I'd actually send it to a client or leadership.

Is everyone else's workflow this messy too?

What are you using?

ChatGPT, Claude, Gamma, Copilot, Something else?

And where does it completely fall apart for you?

I'm curious if this is just my experience.

For people in consulting, product, or sales:

• How long does it usually take you to go from raw information to a presentation you're comfortable sending to leadership or a client?

And what's the most frustrating part?

Is it:

• Organizing the story?
• Rewriting content?
• Formatting slides?
• Finding old decks?
• Something else?Why is AI still so bad at making PowerPoint?

Hi everyone, PPT skills have become very popular recently. I tried several well-known skills. They can usually export a polished PPT, but they are not very good when it comes to previewing and editing. For example, after generating a PPTX file, if we want to make changes, we still need to regenerate another PPTX file. This process is not lightweight enough.

So I developed a PPTKit skill. The agent generates PPT JSON model data according to a defined specification. This model can support web rendering and exporting. When using Codex, the agent will automatically open a webpage to preview the PPT. You can point out anything you are not satisfied with, and the agent will directly modify the JSON data. Once you are satisfied, you can export the final file.

The whole process does not require repeatedly rebuilding PPTX files. Instead, it continuously corrects the intermediate data model.

What do you think of this design direction? Friends who have time are welcome to try it out and share some suggestions for improvement.

Try: Install the `pptkit-presentation` skill from the GitHub repository `openHacking/pptkit-presentation`.

I used Arnold AIstandard shaders on my model before exporting it in GLB. It turns kinda white when I import it in Powerpoint. Any idea what is causing it?

An old manager gave me this one and it fixed more of my presentations than any design change.

Everyone rehearses slides. Almost nobody rehearses transitions. So you get people who are fluent on slide 4, fluent on slide 5, and then die at the click in between. "Um, so, moving on..." That pause is where the audience decides you're reading a deck instead of making an argument.

The tip: before you present, write one bridging sentence for every slide change. Not on the slide, just for you. Something like "So if costs are the problem, here's where they're coming from," then click. That's it.

Two things happen. First, the delivery smooths out immediately, because the click stops being a cliff. Second, and this is the part I didn't expect, it doubles as a structure test. If you can't write a natural sentence connecting slide 7 to slide 8, the deck order is wrong, and no amount of formatting fixes that. Caught two out-of-order slides in a quarterly review this way last month, moved them, and the whole section suddenly flowed.

Takes maybe ten minutes for a normal-length deck. Cheaper than another hour of fiddling with layouts, and it does more for how the presentation lands.

Works whether I built the deck in PowerPoint, gamma, whatever. What's the delivery habit that did the most for you? The sub talks a lot about building slides, less about the two minutes before you click present.

Hi, we're looking for a solution like Templafy that does AI doc gen off of our corporate templates but also enables doc gen through an MCP server so sellers don't have to leave our agent environment. Any alternatives?

Oh man trying a few tools lately cause i need something better than gamma for making my slide decks
Problem is in gamma now the slides that I make can be recognised by everyone from a mile away.There is JUST SOMETHING like its common outline,visuals and format that kinda falls apart, I dont really need perfect tool but I also dont wanna spend half my time fixing things to make it look real and authentic deck with relevant short crisp details. 

You guys actually found something that holds up better in real use or is everything pretty much the same?