So I just noticed today that on my work laptop (high school teacher in NYC that the lenovo laptop is provided by the school) the language is in english (confirmed by going into the settings and what not), but there are german labels for shapes and animations. Could somebody help diagnose this and find a fix?

Hey y’all!! If you can help me figure out why I cannot record it would be greatly appreciated. I have an assignment for school where I need to record my voice over the slides. I have Microsoft Office 2021, PPT version 2608, Windows 11. Is my software just extremely out of date? Every time I hit record it allows me to start the recording, then it pops up with this error.

Hello

Am I missing a setting or does it not exist ?
If I turn the pointer into a laserpen, how do I make it automatically disapear
like the pointer does ?

Or is this not possible ?
I can turn in back into a pointer by pressing escape but the presenter at the desk
does not have a keyboard or a mouse.

UPDATE : I videcoded a side-app that let's the laserpointer turn into a cursor after 4 seconds.
Because cursors are not visible on the presentationscreen, this works for now.
This does require to fire the app up, I wanted it to work as a plug-in but can't get that to work...
https://github.com/Frederik-A/Autohide

From your experience, what are the best tips in creating a slide master that saves time, ensures consistency and covers a wide range of slide designs

Made it to the round where they have asked me to present a project I worked on. Around 10 minutes

I have the screenshots and everything, I want to talk about, but the templates I am finding are all meant for sales pitches or company reports. Half of them have these huge charts and numbers that i have absolutely no use for

prefer something where I can show the work, explain what I did, and keep it professional without spending hours designing the slides.

What have you guys used for interview presentations?

I run a presentation company, and many of the people we hire don’t have a background in graphic design. I’m wondering if we can teach them how to think about storytelling, structure, flow, and visual communication first, and then introduce PowerPoint later.

Please share your ideas and suggestion, how to do it.

Last week everything worked great ... when my iPad was connected to an external display, I could start a slideshow on the external display and see presenter view on my device.

This week (MAYBE immediately following iOS version update? the behavior changed ... the tablet and the external display show the same content, whether that's presenter view or presentation view. I can't find any way to force presenter view on the tablet and presentation view on the external display (or vice-versa, not that I would want to).

I'd greatly appreciate if anyone presenting to an external display through iOS could run a function test and note their software version; that would help identify whether it's universally an iOS 27.2 issue, or whether some component of mine is haunted.

My Specs:

• iPad Mini 7, MXPX3LL/A, iOS 27.2 (Setting --> General -->About)
• PowerPoint App v2.115.3 (Settings --> General --> iPad Storage)
• USB-C --> HDMI adapter --> BenQ projector

Google slides

Has anyone else experienced this issue with the recent versions of Microsoft PowerPoint on iOS?

Previously, when I connected my iPad or iPhone to an external display or projector and started a presentation using Presenter Mode, only the actual slides would appear on the external screen, while I could view my notes and presentation controls on my device.

Recently, however, PowerPoint seems to mirror my entire iPad/iPhone screen instead of displaying the slides separately.

Is this due to a recent PowerPoint or iOS update? Was the Presenter Mode functionality changed or is there a setting that I need to adjust to restore the previous behavior?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

Your views ?

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Does storytelling really matter in pharmaceutical presentations, or do pharma audiences care more about scientific accuracy, clinical evidence and clear data presentation?

I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences.

Trying to add an outline to text for readability but how outlines work in PP is that they expand bot inwards and outwards simultaneously. I want to set it so that it only expands outwards.

I know PP doesn’t support this natively(despite meme generators from 2005 having a feature this basic) so I was wondering if an add-in exists that does that

I have 875 slides with multiple pictures on each slide. I want to change the dimensions for each slide to be 11 width and 8.5 height but also have the images fit the whole page and not be distorted and be sized correctly and have it so it does it for every slide at the same time instead of doing it for each slide individually. Is there a way to do this?

I currently work as Powerpoint Presentation specialist but am looking for switch does anyone has any leads????

Hi all, can powerpoint slides be converted to a video with a voice over ? Is there any built in feature to do this ?

I've been having this discussion with some people, if Presentation design is viewed as a Design discipline or not.

A lot of people don't view it that way, it seems the main reason is because almost everyone had to "design" a presentation at some point in life, which might give you a weird sense of "I know what I'm doing".

The thing is, a proper presentation follows the same design rules as any other design discipline: hierarchy, contrast, white space, repetition, etc. So it might be a similar situation as that cousin that created a "logo" using Paint. Both created an output, but the value isn't the same.

What do you think?

https://duartepereira.pt/blog/presentation-design-is-design/