This post shows how to create a live countdown timer in your PowerPoint presentation. You can make one natively or use an add-in to add a countdown timer in PowerPoint. Imagine starting your ...

The HiPix PowerPoint Add-in compresses PPTX and PPSX files so they are small enough to email, enabling direct file sharing without PDF conversion or link-based distribution. The add-in operates ...

Staring at a blank slide while wrestling with raw numbers still slows teams down. A 2025 SlideSpeak study found chart ...

Are you hankering to give your PowerPoint presentations a visual boost? Do you want to get away from the “I did this in PowerPoint look” that you (and everyone else) get from using PowerPoint’s built ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is experimenting with a new PowerPoint add-in that will allow ...

Anyone who’s sat through a freshman college lecture knows that PowerPoint presentations can be a real bore. But we’re all busy people, and no one has time to design the most engaging slideshow ...

Maybe not everyone loves YouTube, watches and uploads videos on YouTube, but in the world's most popular community, sometimes you would like to add a favorite video on YouTube to your next ...

This step-by-step guide will show you how to quickly turn a list of words into a word cloud using the Pro Word Cloud add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint. Word clouds can be used as images in PowerPoint ...

Microsoft is making generally available a free add-in for PowerPoint that allows presenters and users to take advantage of Microsoft's real-time translation capabilities in creating and/or consuming ...

You can easily add music to a PowerPoint slideshow if you want to make your next presentation more engaging. You can add any MP3, MP4, WAV, or AAC file on your computer to your PowerPoint presentation ...

Are you getting the most from PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 in Windows? Learn about the key new features in Microsoft’s powerful presentation app. Need to create and share a presentation? If so, you ...