Whether it’s the office standard or you’ve simply used it forever, Microsoft’s PowerPoint ( ; $400 as part of Office 2008) is a terrific tool for presenting your thoughts and ideas to colleagues.

To help you get started, CIO.com asked Ayca Yuksel, the product manager for Microsoft Office PowerPoint, to share five design tips and five technical tricks for those who are new to the application.

Copying a chart from a Microsoft Excel workbook document into your PowerPoint presentation can save you the time and effort of creating a new chart in a PowerPoint slide. By default, the copied chart ...

The four tabs for Themes, Tables, Charts and SmartArt have all gone, and their many different sets of tools have been merged into two new tabs. Like Word and Excel, PowerPoint now includes the new ...

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