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September 29, 2026
This issue starts with a mystery. You add a guide in PowerPoint, and it won't move. You didn't lock it. You didn't protect it. It just sits there. The hierarchical guide options tutorial solves that one. Then Paul Lukehart arrives with SimpleDim, a CAD add-in that gives PowerPoint the ability to measure real-world distances, which sounds impossible until you try it. Claudyne Wilder has a quieter provocation: your slides are fine, your data is solid, and your audience is still not connecting. A story fixes that faster than another bullet point ever will. And Jerry Weissman returns with Writer's Block II, because apparently the first one wasn't enough to unstick everyone.
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You get 8 shape types plus lines as part of this Organic Shapes collection. Each of these 8 shape types have 10 variants. So you end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options! Again each of these 80 shapes have 12 brush stroke styles! Plus you get the lines and arrows in 12 brush stroke styles too. Combine all variations to end up with more than 3000 possibilities.
September 8, 2026
Troy Chollar is co-founder and a Sr. Designer of TLC Creative Services and awarded by Microsoft as an MVP for PowerPoint for 24 consecutive years. For more than two decades, Troy has helped organizations create presentations ranging from executive briefings and sales decks to large-scale live event experiences. A regular presenter at The Presentation Summit (he was an attendee at the very first conference!), host of The Presentation Podcast, and the voice of ThePowerPointBlog, Troy is passionate about sharing practical PowerPoint techniques, animation strategies, and workflow improvements that presentation professionals can immediately apply to their own projects. In this conversation, Troy talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
Inserting a New Slide with Copilot in PowerPoint 365 for Windows
September 28, 2026
Matteo Cassese is a business coach for entrepreneurs and keynote speaker with over twenty years of experience across corporate, startup, and creative worlds. He has worked with Warner Bros., Netflix, Sony, LinkedIn, and Vinted, and spoken on stages like SXSW and Gitex. During seven years at Warner Bros. Pictures, he helped launch more than 140 films. Based in Berlin, he helps founders and executives build businesses on their own terms. In this conversation, Matteo speaks about his post, Founder’s Journey.
September 24, 2026
You have your presentation ready. The slides are prepared, and they include charts, tables, bullet points, and photos. You have rehearsed several times and feel comfortable with the content and flow. So, why does it feel like it’s falling a little flat?
Learn more with Claudyne Wilder.
September 23, 2026
The step-by-step process to get past the proverbial blank page is as applicable to presenters as it is to writers. Another method to break through the mental barricade is to just start talking. Jerry Weissman explains how you can break through writer’s block using verbalization techniques, historical examples, and practical presentation‑focused speaking strategies.
September 22, 2026
Paul Lukehart is founder and managing principal of PL Programs LLC, a project consulting firm founded in 2020. His background is in distribution and fulfillment operations, capital project management, and he has authored a book, Practical Floor Supervision on front-line operations leadership. Paul and his family live in Indiana, and in addition to slide decks for client needs, he works on projects like SimpleDim. In this conversation, Paul discusses SimpleDim, an add-in that lets you work with CAD within PowerPoint.
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