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August 18, 2026
This issue keeps coming back to the presenter, not the slides. Akash Choudhry talks about think-cell's Business Presentation survey. Survey results found that AI adoption is high but satisfaction gaps remain, particularly when human judgment and credibility matter most. Bob Befus's ScriptAssist interview is built on exactly that insight: presenters who worry about their notes lose their audience. And the thin smiles piece from 2012 holds up surprisingly well. A presenter who looks disconnected, whether staring at a script or wearing a fixed expression, loses the room either way. Three reads, one message: no tool replaces the person actually in front of the audience.
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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.
August 28, 2026
Robin Davis is the founder and CEO of Metre, a healthcare-focused proposal firm helping organizations turn complex RFPs into winning growth opportunities. With 25 years of experience winning business in healthcare, Robin is a visionary entrepreneur, speaker, APMP Fellow, and unapologetic lover of proposals who believes clarity is a competitive advantage. Since founding Metre in 2009, she has built a reputation for bringing strategy, structure, and compelling storytelling to high-stakes sales pursuits resulting in $20B in revenue for her clients. In this conversation, Robin 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
August 28, 2026
Robin Davis is the founder and CEO of Metre, a healthcare-focused proposal firm helping organizations turn complex RFPs into winning growth opportunities. With 25 years of experience winning business in healthcare, Robin is a visionary entrepreneur, speaker, APMP Fellow, and unapologetic lover of proposals who believes clarity is a competitive advantage. Since founding Metre in 2009, she has built a reputation for bringing strategy, structure, and compelling storytelling to high-stakes sales pursuits resulting in $20B in revenue for her clients. In this conversation, Robin talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
August 28, 2026
Guides help you line up objects on your slides. Most of us use them in a basic way and never look further. This page covers Guide Options in PowerPoint 365 for Windows. You can add guides through the right-click menu, place them exactly where you want, and even change their color to mark different areas of a slide. These options make it easier to build layouts, manage busy slides, and keep elements consistent across a deck. If you've only used the default guides so far, this walkthrough shows you what else is possible.
Explore options to use Guides more effectively in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
August 27, 2026
Choosing between widescreen and standard slides isn't just a design decision. It directly affects how clearly your audience can read your content. This page explains why aspect ratios matter, how projection mismatches shrink your visuals, and what you can do to ensure your slides always look crisp, readable, and perfectly framed.
August 26, 2026
Rick Altman has been hired by hundreds of companies, watched by tens of thousands of professionals, and read by millions of people, all of whom seek better results with their presentation content and delivery. He covers the whole industry, from message crafting, through presentation design, slide creation, software technique, and delivery. In this conversation, Rick talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
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