If you prefer to get your business message across visually or like to incorporate images and shapes into corporate missives, rely on PowerPoint's shapes collection to help you shape up your ...

Follow the steps below to split a shape into parts or multiple pieces in Microsoft PowerPoint: Draw the shape onto the slide. On the Shape Format tab, you can click Shape Fill to change the color of ...

The cropping tools of Powerpoint 2010 can help you to cut and remove unwanted portions of your images. You can remove or hide part of an image, simply by reducing the horizontal and vertical edges.

For the most part, the graphics you add to a slide should be specific–in purpose and in content. Pictures are seldom so well-honed. That’s why PowerPoint’s Crop tool might become one of your favorite ...

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 has a great set of special effects, graphics, animations, and template themes. There’s just one problem: Everybody else has the same effects, animations, and template themes that you have.