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November 3, 2026
Slides are helpers, not the show. Jerry Weissman explains why pictures still beat long blocks of words, because people remember what they see. Our Ampler tutorial shows this with waterfall charts: one clear picture of how a number grows or shrinks, instead of a page of figures. But a good picture only works if someone is listening. Claudyne Wilder compares starting a talk to starting a dance. You connect with your partner first, and then you begin. Three reads, one simple rule: help people see, and help them feel included.
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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
November 2, 2026
How many KPIs belong on a slide? More importantly, how many can an audience truly absorb before attention turns into overload? In this thoughtful article, we explore the balance between completeness and clarity, arguing that the most effective KPI slides are not repositories of data but tools for decision-making. Using examples from business, aviation, medicine, and psychology, they demonstrate why fewer, better-presented metrics often lead to stronger conversations and faster decisions.
October 26, 2026
As a student of Argentine Tango, I compare establishing rapport to starting to dance with a new partner. The couple walks to the floor. They get in the dance position, BUT they don’t immediately start dancing. They may mark the step and not move, or they may just stand there and feel each other’s internal rhythm. Then, when the leader feels connected, the dance starts.
October 23, 2026
In a 2001 article in Small Business Computing, writer Angela Garber expressed the universally negative reputation of cluttered slideshows by coining the frequently cited epithet, Death by PowerPoint. Given the constant disparagement of slideshows by critics, audiences, and even by presenters themselves, why would anyone continue to use them?
October 20, 2026
This issue is about doing the job properly the first time. SimpleDim brings real measurements into PowerPoint, so a warehouse layout or a floor plan on a slide is not just a picture but an actual, to-scale drawing you can trust. Laszlo Diewald’s Dynamic Grid 2 does the same for data: one click refreshes your table straight from SharePoint, so the numbers in the room are always the current numbers, not last week’s. And Ramgopal’s book, Clear Slides, makes the same argument about thinking: organize your ideas before you open PowerPoint, because a clear head makes a clear slide. Three different tools, one simple rule: get it right early, and the rest gets easier.
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