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Require a password for PowerPoint

Control who can view or edit your presentations, or allow others to view but not edit the files.

Crabby demystifies PowerPoint terms

Need to know more about PowerPoint terminology? Read the Crabby Office Lady's humorous (yet informative) take on common PowerPoint concepts.

Medical stethoscope design template

Make your medical presentation look just a little more elegant with this stethescope-themed PowerPoint template.

Reduce the size of your PowerPoint files

In this popular article, Microsoft MVP Steve Rindsberg says that there are quite a few reasons why your files might get huge. He looks at why it happens, how you can fix it, and what you can do to prevent it from happening again.

Create award certificates in PowerPoint

Create colorful, creative, and official looking award certificates for the athletes and graduates in your life.

Last puzzle piece design template

Watch the puzzle pieces fall into place in your presentation with this scintillating template

Draw a line or connector

This article gives a quick overview of the difference between lines and connectors and shows you how to draw each of them.

Introducing photo albums in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint you can quickly create a photo album, which is a presentation that consists of a title slide and a collection of graphic images, one or more per slide. You can get the images from graphics files or from a scanner or digital camera attached to your computer. To create a photo album, follow these steps:

Global business teamwork design template

Express the global reach of your organization with this refined PowerPoint presentation template.

Draw a flowchart

See how you can use AutoShapes to create and format a basic flowchart.

Twelve-month timeline

Chart the progress of your project with this twelve-month timeline graphic template.

Presentation for project post-mortem

Prepare to present the results of your project with this post-morten template.

Add music, songs, or sound effects to a slide show

Spice up your presentation by adding sounds. In this article, you'll learn how to insert songs or sound effects and how you can control when they play.

Employee orientation presentation

Begin your new employees' careers off well with this orientation slideshow template.

Lightning strike image slide

Does lightning strike twice in the same place? Find out with this lightning-themed presentation template.

Library collage design template

Add a transparent image to one or all of your slides, to make your presentation uniquely your own or clearly identify your presentation or company sponsor.

Business accounting design template

Show your love of books with this library-themed presentation template.

DNA structure design template

A double helix never looked so good! Complete your biology presentation with this DNA-themed slideshow template.

Crop a picture

Learn how to use the cropping tool to easily crop your picture.

Geography globe design template

Insert a geographic feel to your presenation with this globe template.

Learning games design template

Puzzle along with your audience using this game piece-styled PowerPoint template

Edit a slide master

Customize the elements on your slides by editing the slide master.

Business accounting design template

Present your ledger numbers elegantly with this accounting-themed PowerPoint template.

Education collage design template

Add a touch of the classroom to your slides with this education-themed template.

Insert page numbers, slide numbers, or date and time anywhere on a slide

Keep track of the slides in your presentation by adding page numbers, slide numbers, or the date and time.

Sales call agenda

Do you need to prepare for that big sales presentation? Use this template to help you plan your sales call.

Unity cutouts design template

Use this professionaly-designed template to add a "unity" motif to your presentation

Patient medical records design template

Download this and other healthcare design templates to "perk up" patient medical records.

Playing sounds and movies in PowerPoint 2003

This article discusses some of the options for playing music, sounds, and movies (also called videos) in PowerPoint 2003.

Insert a degree symbol

Talking about temperatures? You may need a degree symbol.

Check your password strength

Test the strength of your passwords: Enter a password in the text box to have Password Checker help determine its strength as you type.

Create and distribute a self-running PowerPoint presentation

Self-running presentations are a great way to communicate information without having to have someone available to run a slide show presentation.

Health pulse design template

Add an up and down health pulse background to your slides using this design template.

Demo: Leave a good impression; distribute a business presentation on CD

Want to truly impress your customers with a multimedia presentation about your business? You can easily make your Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentations more portable by burning them onto a CD. By including the new free PowerPoint 2003 presentation viewer on the CD, presentations can be distributed to and viewed by audiences who do not use Microsoft Office.

Open a PowerPoint 2007 presentation in an earlier version of PowerPoint

To open a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation in an earlier version of PowerPoint, you can use the earlier binary file format (.ppt) or the new Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based file format (.pptx). To open, edit, and save your Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation in an earlier version of PowerPoint without first saving it in the earlier version's file format, you can download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.

Change the slide background

To give your presentation a unique or eye-catching look, consider changing the backgrounds of some or all of your slides.

Create and use strong passwords

Read about the 6 steps to a better password; plus, common strategies it's better to avoid.

Demo: Merge multiple presentations into one

PowerPoint 2003 makes it easy for you to merge slides from different presentations so you don't have to redo work that has already been completed. You can even preserve the different formatting and backgrounds of the slides you're combining by enabling multiple masters in the presentation.

Add a border to a slide

Insert a variety of borders on a slide, and then rotate or resize them.

Require a password for PowerPoint

Control who can view or edit your presentations, or allow others to view but not edit the files.

Demo: Tips for effective financial presentations

Do you need to give a financial presentation? It's one thing to show your audience the financial information, but you want them to understand and analyze it, as well. Use these tips to create a PowerPoint presentation and make your points in a way that would be impossible with just a verbal presentation and handouts.

Top tips for PowerPoint

This article contains a number of suggestions to help you run and edit your presentation quickly and easily.

Relational Presentation: the visually interactive side of PowerPoint

Read an article on how to use PowerPoint in a strikingly flexible, interactive, and conversational way, and NOT in the typical static, linear, sleep-inducing, bullet-point-filled, lecture-style slide show way.

Add a border to a slide

Insert a variety of borders on a slide, and then rotate or resize them.

Embed fonts in a PowerPoint presentation

Learn how to embed fonts in a presentation, thus saving the font with the presentation. When you embed fonts your text will always display as you want even if the host computer doesn't have the fonts you are using installed.

Present sales reports in PowerPoint

Learn how as a salespeople you can quickly prepare to present your sales numbers to a group.

Count words in a presentation

Use PowerPoint to count the number of words that are in a presentation and report how many slides, paragraphs, bytes, notes, hidden slides, and multimedia clips are in the presentation.

Tips for giving better presentations

See tips for presentations intended to educate or persuade people in a professional setting or under other formal situations.

Avoid missing font styles in PowerPoint

See how to avoid the classic nightmare scenario where you've spent months putting together the perfect presentation for a huge professional conference or very important board meeting, but when you get there, your beautifully formatted slides are marred by some dull and unattractive system font. Whether you're putting together the most important presentation in your life or you just want to guarantee your slides will look as appealing on your boss's computer as they did on yours, here are three simple tricks you can use to make sure your slides will display with the font you intended.

Successful parent-teacher conferences

Learn how you can prepare for parent-teacher conferences, so you will not feel uncomfortable and anxious.

Brand your slides with a background or watermark

Add a transparent image to one or all of your slides, to make your presentation uniquely your own or clearly identify your presentation or company sponsor.

Copy files to a CD

Learn how to burn your data onto a CD to create backup copies of your data, share large files with other people, keep digital inventory records, or preserve the digital photographs you took on vacation

Add a border to a slide

Insert a variety of borders on a slide, and then rotate or resize them.

Install a new font on your computer

Learn how to install new fonts on your computer and how to embed them in your document so that your documents look the same when you share them with others.

Tips for finding clips

Read tricks for finding the clips you want quickly.

Crop a picture

Learn how to use the cropping tool to easily crop your picture.

Insert a check mark symbol

Read how to insert a check mark or other symbol into PowerPoint and other Office programs.

Draw a line or connector

This article gives a quick overview of the difference between lines and connectors and shows you how to draw each of them.

Add music, songs, or sound effects to a slide show

Spice up your presentation by adding sounds. In this article, you'll learn how to insert songs or sound effects and how you can control when they play.

Work confidently with your presentation slides

For many people, the thought of public speaking inspires fear, not confidence. The fear often comes from speakers being uncomfortable with their story, themselves, or their level of preparedness. Cliff Atkinson, president of Sociable Media and a leading authority on how to improve communications across organizations, shows you how to gain confidence with your PowerPoint presentation by using three basic elements that are guaranteed to engage your audience: headlines, graphics, and your spoken words.

Giving effective financial presentations

Few people look forward to watching financial presentations. Probably even fewer come away from presentations with a clear understanding of what the speakers tried to communicate. Financial presentations can be boring and hard to see and understand. How can you make your presentation more interesting, without getting too cute or distracting from your message?

Make a strong sales presentation

This article, by guest author Brad Douglas, has helped a number of PowerPoint customers create interest in their sales plan presentations.

Reduce the size of your PowerPoint files

Org charts A to Z

This training course shows you how to use the Microsoft Office diagramming tool to create an organization chart in PowerPoint 2003. Build and lay out a chart, style it effectively, and get editing tips that'll help you adapt it.

Use Visio drawings in presentations, documents, and publications

Take this training course to learn how to add Microsoft Office Visio drawings to files that you create using Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Word, and Publisher so that you'll always get exactly the results you want.

Demo: Create basic presentations

PowerPoint 2003 makes it easy for you to get organized, capture your audience's attention, and get the results that you need from your presentation.

Three ground rules for writing your presentation

Like a Hollywood movie script, your presentation can be greatly enhanced by a special writing style that boils down your story to its essence. Cliff Atkinson, president of Sociable Media and a leading authority on how to improve communications across organizations, explains.

Produce computer-based training with PowerPoint Producer

Computer-based training (CBT) has many advantages over other training techniques, but until recently, CBT could be very costly to develop. Now, you can use Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, a free download for PowerPoint users, to develop CBT at a very low cost and make it easy to distribute training through your intranet. Microsoft MVP Tony Northrup tells you how.

Office security basics

Learn about security fundamentals in Microsoft Office programs and what you can do to help protect your computer and documents. Find out about digital signatures, some basic information about macros and viruses, and how to create strong passwords to help protect your documents.

Customize your toolbars and menus

Learn how to change existing toolbars and menus, including the shortcut menu, and how to create your own toolbars and menus in Microsoft Office programs.

Introducing photo albums in PowerPoint

Format text as superscript or subscript

Learn how to create superscript text (text that is slightly higher than other text on a line, such as a footnote reference mark) and subscript text (text that is slightly lower than other text on a line, often used in scientific formulas.).

Add a second top-level box to an org chart in PowerPoint

When you create an organization chart in PowerPoint, the default diagram has only one shape at the top for the boss. But you might need to have two or more boxes at the top, if for example, an assistant gets promoted.

Tips for giving better presentations

For presentations intended to educate or persuade people in a professional setting or under other formal situations, it's a good idea to follow these tips.

Create your first presentation

Learn what you need to know to put together a Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation quickly and with little fuss.

Office security basics

Information Rights Management in Microsoft Office 2003

Information Rights Management (IRM) in Microsoft Office 2003 is a new feature that allows individual authors to specify permission for who can access and use documents or e-mail messages, and helps prevent sensitive information from being printed, forwarded, or copied by unauthorized people.

Demo: Add music to a presentation

PowerPoint presentations obviously make for a striking visual experience, but did you know you can jazz them up even further by adding music?

Introducing photo albums in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint you can quickly create a photo album, which is a presentation that consists of a title slide and a collection of graphic images, one or more per slide.

Add equations with Microsoft Equation to your Office document

If you create documents that involve mathematics, you’ll find the Microsoft Equation Editor program useful for accurately formatting equations in your Microsoft Office documents.

Demo: Create basic presentations

PowerPoint 2003 makes it easy for you to get organized, capture your audience's attention, and get the results that you need from your presentation.

Introduction to PowerPoint for HR professionals

Like employees in other professions, people who work in human resources are often asked to deliver something at short notice. Fortunately, some tools, like PowerPoint 2003, are designed to be useful to both beginners and expert users.

Demo: Use templates to create presentations

To help you save time, you can use PowerPoint 2003 to quickly create new templates and customize existing templates for your presentations.

Demo: Merge multiple presentations into one

Change all your fonts at once

If you want to change the whole look and feel of an existing presentation, use the Replace Fonts command on the Format menu. This tool lets you change all instances of a single font with one mouse click.

Publish a photo album to the Web

Follow these simple instructions if you want others to have access to your photo album on the Web.

Show slide animations during a Web presentation

Use this procedure to allow viewers of Web presentations to see slide animations when they use Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later.

Add a picture throughout a presentation

To make a picture appear on multiple slides, add it to the slide master for those slides. If you want the picture to appear only on slides that have a Title Slide layout, add it to the title master.

Move an object in small increments

Follow these instructions to move an object (such as a table, chart, graphic, equation, or other form of information) very slightly in PowerPoint 2003.

Tailoring your message to the audience is everything!

For information about how to effectively customize your message for your audience, check out this exerpt from Robert Lane's book Relational Presentation: A Visually Interactive Approach.

Take your presentation beyond bullet points in three steps

You can adapt the process that Hollywood has tested and refined through countless successful (and bullet-free) films to make your presentations clear, direct, and engaging.

Show slide animations during a Web presentation

Use this procedure to allow viewers of Web presentations to see slide animations when they use Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later.

Create pan and zoom effects in PowerPoint

Although PowerPoint allows you to easily create and distribute photo albums, you can add action to your electronic photo albums through the use of panning and zooming effects.

Office security basics

Take this training course to learn about security fundamentals in Microsoft Office programs and what you can do to help protect your computer and documents. Find out about digital signatures, some basic information about macros and viruses, and how to create strong passwords to help protect your documents

Change the color of a hyperlink

An quick and easy answer to a very common customer question: How can I change the color of my hyperlink text in PowerPoint 2003?

Creating an organization chart in Office 2003

An organization chart graphically represents the management structure of an organization. There are several ways to create an organization chart in Microsoft Office 2003, depending on which Office 2003 program you want to use.

Demo: Copy formatting in a single click with Format Painter

Microsoft Office programs offer a quick way to copy formatting from one item to another. It’s called Format Painter, and it might be the most helpful toolbar button you’ve never used. Watch the demo to see how it works.

Tips for saving time in PowerPoint

This article by Microsoft MVP Kathy Jacobs looks at thirteen tips for working faster, smarter, and stronger in PowerPoint 2003.

Which fonts look good in presentations?

Choosing the fonts for your presentation can be tricky. Just as you would make choices about any part of your presentation, to choose the best fonts you need to start by considering your message and your audience.

Create a PowerPoint presentation for a kiosk

Have you ever wanted to create an interactive presentation to promote your company or product at a conference, trade show, or convention? PowerPoint helps you add new interactivity to your presentation by setting an animation effect to play only when a specified item is clicked by a visitor to your kiosk.

Presentations: To recycle or not to recycle

Some topics and materials lend themselves well to being recycled or reused, but some don't. It's important to know the difference.

3 rules for a great presentation

Read this exerpt from Cliff Atkinson's book Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire to ensure that your presentation is lively and engaging.

Customize your toolbars and menus

Learn how to change existing toolbars and menus, including the shortcut menu, and how to create your own toolbars and menus in Microsoft Office programs.

Make a strong sales presentation

This article, by guest author Brad Douglas, has helped a number of PowerPoint customers create interest in their sales plan presentations.

Demo: Create your own design template

You can alter the color scheme, font style, and other features of one of the existing design templates, or you can step off the beaten path entirely and create a slide design all your own, even using a favorite photo as a background.

Introducing photo albums in PowerPoint

Prevent embarrassment by hiding alerts during presentations

Has this happened to you? You are in the middle of a demonstration or presentation and a New Mail Desktop Alert appears at the bottom corner of your screen, revealing information you would rather keep private. Here is a quick way to prevent revealing personal information.

Install and run PowerPoint Viewer 2003

To run a presentation on a computer on which Microsoft Office PowerPoint is not installed, or to distribute a self-contained presentation to an audience that might not have PowerPoint installed, use Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer.

Create an accessible Office document

Find out what accessibility means and how people with disabilities experience your documents. Learn about the different accessibility needs of various people and what you should do to make your documents available to them.

Save a presentation as a template

When you save your presentation as a template, you can use its formatting, including the type and size of bullets and fonts; placeholder sizes and positions; background design and fill color schemes; and a slide master and optional title master.

Connect with other PowerPoint users

You can tap the collective wisdom of other PowerPoint users by posing questions in discussion groups, reading PowerPoint blogs, or using any of the other community resources mentioned in this article.

Create and distribute a self-running PowerPoint presentation

Self-running presentations are a great way to communicate information without having to have someone available to run a slide show presentation. For example, you might want to set up a presentation to run unattended in a booth or kiosk at a trade show or convention, or send a CD with a self-running slide show to a client.

Org charts A to Z

Flowcharting with flair

Take this training course to learn how to use common flowchart shapes; build a chart using AutoShapes and connectors, getting the positioning and structure you want; and style the chart effectively and set default styles.

Require a password to open or change a presentation

By requiring a password, you can prevent your presentation from being opened or altered by someone who you haven't granted permission to.

Change a color in a clip

Do you know you can change the color of clip art? It's easy to customize your favorites.

Send slides to Microsoft Word

Follow this short, simple procedure to learn how to either embed your slides in or link your slides to a Word document.

What resolution should I make my images for PowerPoint slide shows?

Steve Rindsberg, Microsoft MVP and co-creator of PPTools.com, talks about presenter view. Presenter view allows you more control over your presentation, such as the ability to show slides out of sequence and a black-out button that allows you to blacken the screen for the audience while maintaining your view of the presentation and your notes on your own monitor. Presenter view works on an operating system that supports multiple displays and allows you to run your presentation from one monitor and let the audience view it on another monitor or a projector.

Change the description for a scheduled broadcast

Use this procedure to make changes to the lobby page before a scheduled Web broadcast of your presentation. A lobby page is a page of information about the broadcast that is displayed in the viewer's browser before the broadcast begins. It can contain a title, subject, host's name, information about the broadcast, and a countdown to the time of the broadcast.

Team up on PowerPoint presentations

Since there are several ways to collaborate in PowerPoint, it's important to determine which collaboration method is best for you. This article provides you with possible solutions for the collaboration challenges you may encounter.

Relational Presentation: the visually interactive side of PowerPoint

Author Robert Lane brings us this article, written for the growing number of you who are looking for a way of using PowerPoint that is strikingly flexible, interactive, and conversational.

How to prevent PowerPoint file corruption

Echo Swinford, Microsoft MVP and creator of EchosVoice, tells us that there are a number of ways to help prevent PowerPoint files from becoming corrupt.

Open a PowerPoint 2007 presentation in an earlier version of PowerPoint

Create a photo album

A PowerPoint photo album is a presentation that you can create to display your personal or business photographs. You can add effects that include attention-grabbing slide transitions, colorful backgrounds and themes, specific layouts, and more.

Playing sounds and movies in PowerPoint 2003

This article discusses some of the options for playing music, sounds, and movies (also called videos) in PowerPoint 2003.

Demo: Use templates to create presentations

To help you save time, you can use PowerPoint 2003 to quickly create new templates and customize existing templates for your presentations.

Install and run PowerPoint Viewer 2003

About recording a voice narration for a presentation

Narration can enhance Web-based or self-running presentations. You can also use narration to archive a meeting, so that presenters or absentees can review the presentation later and hear any comments made during the presentation.

Demo: Set the stage for your presentation

The Beyond Bullet Points method is a powerful new presentation strategy that helps you model your Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentations as performances. This strategy keeps your message well organized, and your audience engaged. Learn how Act I of your presentation can help convince your audience members that they have a stake in your story.

Prevent distractions during your presentation

In this highly-rated article, Cliff Atkinson, president of Sociable Media and a leading authority on how to improve communications across organizations, describes how the physical environment in which you make your presentation is just as important as the story you tell. You'll need to prevent distractions that will diminish the impact of your presentation.

Take the pressure off your presentation

In this, another highly-rated article, author Janet C. Arrowood provides several strategies for how to organize your presentation slides so that the information you present is engaging and you're not just parroting material to your audience. She also describes how important it is to know what not to do when you're at the podium.

What's new in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

To help you produce professional-looking presentations, PowerPoint 2007 provides a comprehensive set of features that you can use to create and format your information. You can create and add designer-quality SmartArt graphics with only a few clicks of your mouse.

Broadcast a live presentation

If you want to broadcast your presentation with live video and audio, connect a video camera and microphone to your computer according to the manufacturer's instructions. Use this procedure for broadcasting to small groups (fewer than 10 audience members at a time); for information about broadcasting to larger groups, see the Microsoft Office 2003 Resource Kit Web site.

Tips for saving time in PowerPoint

This article by Microsoft MVP Kathy Jacobs looks at thirteen tips for working faster, smarter, and stronger in PowerPoint 2003.

Demo: Leave a good impression; distribute a business presentation on CD

Top tips for PowerPoint

This article contains a number of suggestions to help you run and edit your presentation quickly and easily.

Demo: Merge multiple presentations into one

The small print: headers and footers

The small print that goes at the top or bottom of slides and printouts, known in PowerPoint as header and footer text, can be important — and sometimes tricky to get right. Take this training course to learn how to place slide or page numbers, dates, and other text on slides, handouts, notes, and outlines.

Plan your spoken words

In this highly-rated article, Cliff Atkinson, president of Sociable Media and a leading authority on how to improve communications across organizations, says that to create a coherent Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation, you need to plan not only the slides but also the words that you speak while projecting the slides. You can do this by using Notes Page view in PowerPoint.

Copy and paste clip art from the Web into a document

It's easy to copy and paste clip art directly from the Clip Art and Media site into your Microsoft Office document. This feature will work in Windows 2000 or later versions.

Plan your spoken words

Take the pressure off your presentation

So that's how! Great PowerPoint features

Take this training course to pick up tricks in four areas, including the PowerPoint 2003 feature that lets you package presentations to a CD. Tips on templates, the title master slide, and picture optimization round out the course.

Design efficiently with masters

If you've wondered how to make a design change in PowerPoint that would apply to several slides at once, this course is for you. See how the slide master helps you efficiently alter such elements as the font, text position, and layout. Also, work with several masters in a show that has more than one design template.

Playing movies

This training course shows you how to play movies in PowerPoint 2003, control how they start and how long they play, and create buttons to run them.

Animations I: Preset and custom animation

Make text and pictures fly in, bounce, and zoom out using the animation features in PowerPoint. Apply preset animation schemes, and use custom animation to modify them or create animation sequences of your own.

Demo: Copy formatting in a single click with Format Painter

Create your own template

You want a customized template for your PowerPoint presentations that includes your organization's name and a unique background, with the colors and font styles of your choice. How do you create it and make it available for later use within PowerPoint? This course tells you.

Create your first presentation

Learn what you need to know to put together a Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation quickly and with little fuss.

Take your presentation beyond bullet points in three steps

You can adapt the process that Hollywood has tested and refined through countless successful (and bullet-free) films to make your presentations clear, direct, and engaging.

Planning a successful presentation

When it comes to giving a presentation, preparation is half the battle. Janet C. Arrowood, training expert, teaches you great strategies to prevent you from reading off your slides — one of the two major presentation mistakes that she advises speakers to avoid.

Create a PowerPoint presentation for a kiosk

What's new in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

This article now contains brand new mini-demos that clock in at around one minute and highlight several of the new features in PowerPoint 2007. Check it out!

Demo: Tips for effective financial presentations

Creating presentations: The basics

Creating your message is just one side of the coin; using presentation software, such as PowerPoint, to illustrate your message is the other side. If you have not used PowerPoint before or are just getting started, you're in the right place.

Format text as superscript or subscript

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 top 10 benefits

Here are the top 10 ways that PowerPoint 2007 helps you increase your productivity and improve collaboration with others.

8 ways to get ready for PowerPoint 2007

To prepare you for working with PowerPoint 2007, this article introduces eight of the product's new or significantly improved features. If you’re upgrading to PowerPoint 2007 from a previous version, you’re probably most interested in the differences between the old and new versions and how they will affect you, as well as how to find out about them in the quickest possible way.

About smart tags

You can save time by using smart tags to perform actions in PowerPoint 2003 that you'd typically open other programs to do. Smart tags are data recognized and labeled as a particular type. For example, a person's name or the name of a recent Microsoft Outlook e-mail message recipient is a type of data that can be recognized and labeled with a smart tag. Read this article to find out more.

MVP column: Making a presentation is like playing Go

What does PowerPoint, a piece of software used to share information, have in common with Go, an ancient Asian game? Both are simple to learn, but not easy to master. Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP and webmistress of www.OnPPT.com, explains.

10 tips to enhance presentations

Cliff Atkinson, president of Sociable Media and a leading authority on how to improve communications across organizations, helps you build shows you 10 tips to further enhance your presentation. The article also contains links to some of his other highly-rated columns.