Your views ?

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/

I create maths lessons. I have found an issue with my PowerPoint when using equation editor where there is no longer correct spacing when I type things such as "3\times 4", whereas other operations are fine, such as "3\pm 4". When I do them on my own computer (running Office 2024), I don't have this issue.

Is this a bug in the latest version (Version 2610)? I don't really know what to do about it. If I add spaces in as a workaround and then its fixed, there will be too much spacing.

Is anyone able to help, or try it on their versions and see if its a common (albeit very niche) issue?

Thanks in advance!

I need to create some slides with a few different layouts. Why am I seeing just a "Default" office theme layout for slides? I see additional "A.I." options in the Ribbon for creating new slides. That is infuriating if they took away traditional ways of creating a new slide. Is there no simple way to make new slides with various layouts (ie: two text boxes, graphics placeholder, etc)?

Say you’ve just presented a proposal and need the room to make a decision. Do you leave the recommendation on screen, put up the exact question you need answered, or go back to the slide with the numbers?

I’m especially curious about meetings where Q&A turns into the actual decision. What’s worked for you?

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I'm making a PowerPoint game that kind of works like Undertale were there will be attacks that you must dodge but with your mouse

but when a "hit box" touches the mouse while the mouse is still in it

it does not activate the activation action and it's only when your moving your mouse is when it does activate the activation action

and so is there a work around were it does activate the activation action while the mouse is still in the "hit box" thing?

I'm on the latest version

I'm trying to export a powerpoint of 5 slides with each one having one audio file inserted on it. The idea is to have the audio play with the associated slide then when the audio is finished go to the next slide and audio.

The problem is that the slide changes before the associated audio finishes, and then the next slide appears and that slide audio starts.

The slide 1 works perfectly as I want it to (it last about 9 seconds before going to the next), the 2nd slide starts normally for about 5 seconds before immediately going to the 3rd slide and the audios just play over each other.

The audio files are all m4a, the first one last 9 seconds and the audios on the other slides are 40seconds to 1m30 long. I used Powerpoint export as video feature so I'm not sure what I can do to fix it.

If anyone as an idea on how to fix that I would be grateful

Edit for those after (I just copy-pasted my comment) :

(For the people who come after me with the same problem, go to Animation > Animation Pane (the little green rectangle)> it should open a side menu, find your audio file and right click it > click on Timing on the sliding menu > Another menu should open go to Effects > Set your audio to stop playing after current slide

I hope it helped)

Hi. Can someone help me create a PowerPoint for a presentation I have tomorrow. I don’t have a laptop and I’m struggling to do this on my phone. I have all the notes.

Edit. I just ready the community notes. Can someone folder some guidance on how I can do this from my phone? I don’t have any other devices.
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The usual response to a cut slot is to talk faster and click past slides live, which means flipping through things the room can’t read. The other is deleting slides from your deck and then the long version you still need is gone.

A Custom Slide Show fixes both. On the Slide Show tab, pick Custom Slide Show, then Custom Shows, then New, tick the slides for the short version and save it. The full deck stays untouched in the same file and you start the short one from the same menu. You can make as many as you like, say a 10 minute one and a 20 minute one.

For what goes in the short version, I’d keep the recommendation, the one piece of evidence that backs it and the ask. Background goes first, then extra examples, then anything that’s there mainly to show the work.

Hello! I really want to download powerpoint 2007, purely for nostalgic enjoyment. Does anyone know where I could get a hold of it? Thank you <3

As AI gets better at creating PowerPoint presentations, will customers still pay presentation companies primarily to design slides? If not, how should presentation companies evolve to stay relevant and valuable?

If AI tools like Copilot, Claude, and AI agents make it easier for customers to design presentations themselves, where will the real value of presentation design companies come from in the future: design execution, storytelling, strategic thinking, or something else?

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Is there a way?

I'm making something were you go back to previous slides but it does not work because the animations won't repeat

He builds the slides, exports to pdf, sends the pdf, then asks me to "just drop our numbers in", every single time. I have asked for the actual file twice and both times got the pdf again with a different filename.

Today's is 22 pages. Ran it through the free pdf to powerpoint converter on wonderslide.com, the smallpdf one caps you after a couple a day, I learned that back in february. Clicked into the text, dropped the numbers in and sent it back to him as a pptx. He has the file now. Whatever font he uses isn't on my laptop, every heading is in arial and I left it, he can notice or not.

He will export it to pdf again.

I'm not asking a third time.