Launch PowerPoint. On the Shape Format tab, change the color, weight, and outline of the shape. Select the shape Go to the animation tab and choose an animation from the gallery. Press the Preview ...

With the release of the Visual Studio 11 beta comes a new tool for designing screens: PowerPoint Storyboarding. It's an add-on for PowerPoint that might at first seem a little underwhelming, but the ...

If you want to use PowerPoint's capabilities to illustrate how two or more data points compare in magnitude, it might be appropriate in some cases to use proportional shapes to make the comparison.

PowerPoint comes with dozens of free shapes; circles, stars and even smiley faces are only a few clicks away. If you don't find a shape you like, draw your own using the built-in free-form drawing ...

If you insert a shape in PowerPoint and you want to change it into another different shape without having to delete it or insert another shape into the slide, you can use the Change Shape feature that ...

You’ll find circles in lots of slides in Microsoft PowerPoint, but what you might not see as often are circles filled with two different colors. You might think, “Use semi-circles!” but guess what? A ...