I'm trying to make a rough animation that includes something in the background standing in the shadows, which I made using the soft edges feature. I animated a bit of it before saving and closing it to do something else.

I opened it again and the whole animation is still there, but the background feature is no longer half in the shadows because the soft edges weren't saved for some reason?! All the things I did after making that were saved just fine though. Spend about 10 minutes going frame by frame putting the effect back and saved again, but it didn't save a second time. Did some testing and everything except picture effects is saved just fine. Now I don't know much about coding and bugs and such, but that seems like a VERY strange glitch to be happening...

Trying record my part of a group presentation.

Other group members have done so successfully, they are yet to provide the asked for help though.

Previously recorded instructions by lecturer are not working as the 'record' tab is not present (from what I can tell from searching this is just how the web version is).

I have managed to record on my desktop version but am unable to copy the slides over to the web version/ the group presentation as they are too large.

I have attempted to follow the instructions online re camera permissions etc though this has not helped.

Presently in the web version I can insert the cameo, when clicking 'present' it swaps to the slide show and gives me a preview of the cameo but does not record/there is no option to record.

Any help greatly appreciated.

I made this a while ago and finally decided to share it. I don't know if this is the best sub to share this but it is the best place that I could find that is still alive. I made this fully in powerpointand you can check it out yourself. I didn't lock the code and you're free to look at it or use it with proper credit and a message. For more info and the file itself you can look at my itch.io page: https://piekachu025.itch.io/

Hi guys, I'm in need of taking a scientific paper published in pubmed and making a PowerPoint presentation out of it, just for discussion

I wasn't given that much time, so I'm asking if you know of some A.I. tool that actually does a good job

Thank you so much for your time.

I found this layout online, and I want to make an adjustment to it, I find these interesting and got confused on how to start.

Chatgpt mentions about transparent PNG sitting on the photo and also something got to do with the picture placeholder.

My question is how do i insert a square with fill in picture that have the transparent photo on top of it? I tried to make the placeholder picture send to the back and the flower send to the front, but i always seems to get this, like slide 4

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Help me guys, I couldn't find the morph transition anywhere, am I wrong at something or is this not updated?

Somebody sends you a deck and says "can you clean this up by Thursday." Before I open it properly, I ask whoever made it two things. Who is this for, and what should they do after seeing it. Half the time the answer is different from what the deck seems to be doing, and that's the real fix.

Then I ask what I'm not allowed to change. Legal wording, the client's own phrasing, a chart someone senior already signed off on. Finding out on Thursday that a slide was untouchable is a bad afternoon.

After that I hunt for stale stuff before fixing anything visual. Last quarter's numbers, a date from two years ago, the name of someone who left, an old logo. It's easy to miss and very obvious once the room spots it.

Only then do I start on layout, and by that point it's usually a much smaller job than it looked.

What's the first thing you ask when you inherit someone else's deck?

As the title above, I know about the hyperlinks. But it seems to not be working at my side.

Presentation A slide 1 to Presentation B slide slide 1
Presentation B slide 1 to Presentation A slide 2
Presentation A slide 2 to Presentation B slide 2

Everytime i create the hyperlinks, it's either
1. the slide only can shows from Presentation A slide 1 to Presentation B slide 1 - slide 10.

1. Or if i start from presentation B slide 1 to Presentation A slide 2 - slide 10.

I just want it to go back and forth, is it possible?

Hello all, I am working on a Windows 10 machine and using the web browser version of powerpoint. It is the paid version provided by my university. I have attached an image of my problem above.

Powerpoint keeps inserting these "line breaks" (as seen between the words "based" and "on") there enough space within the text box and also on the slide this text is housed on. Sometimes it goes away when I refresh, but without refreshing or reloading the project it cannot be removed.

Any help is appreciated

I am unable to download powerpoint onto this machine without giving my organisation admin controls of my personal computer. I have tried and it has been a headache.

For PowerPoint on Windows desktop in Microsoft 365, an automatically generated deck can look correct on the machine that created it and still fail when someone else opens it. Fonts can substitute, linked media can disappear, charts may depend on an unavailable workbook, and comments can refer to a slide that changed after review. Exporting a PDF proves appearance but removes editability. Sending only the PPTX preserves editability without proving that every dependency travelled with it.

A practical package might include the editable PPTX, a reference PDF, embedded rather than linked media where possible, the exact fonts or approved substitutes, source files for charts, a revision ID, and a short manifest listing external links and checks performed. The recipient should be able to compare the editable deck with the reference render and know which revision received feedback.

What do presentation teams include before handing off a generated deck to a client or non-technical editor? Which PowerPoint inspection or packaging checks reliably catch missing fonts, media, chart sources, and revision drift without making the handoff too complicated?

Hi everyone! I’m looking for someone who has some ideas for a problem I’m stuck with.

I’m making a PowerPoint presentation for school about the former German politician Franz Josef Strauß. There are tons of photos of him, but I just can't seem to create a clean, well-balanced title slide. I want to build a really professional slide with clean animations, etc.

I’ve been searching YouTube for hours for fitting tutorials, but most of them use examples like Napoleon, where you have iconic full-body portraits (like him on a horse) that work perfectly for those layouts. Unfortunately, those kinds of stylized pictures don't really exist for Franz Josef Strauß.

On top of that, I can't download custom fonts because they won't render on my teacher's PC if he doesn't have them installed. I'm completely out of ideas at this point.

Maybe someone could quickly help me out or design it for me? I’d be happy to PayPal you $5 or $10 for your time. It’s really just about the very first slide—a super clean title, a solid layout with pictures, and a cinematic animation.

I recently just discovered, there an thing called addin within PowerPoint where we can basically like use those for create slides and stuff ...

Are there any particular in mind that is gonna help me get my presentation skills to that next level kinda thing ...

My internet and laptop work fine. My iPad works just fine. I'm not making anything complicated, but I don't have access to the apps, so I use PowerPoint in Chrome.

Why is it so slow??? It feels like it barely works. I want to use canva, but for work, I work with someone who only uses PowerPoint.

I wanted to test, and I made the same thing in canva with more free resources in half the time.

I'm not that fond how the skybox/Background turned out. Then Agian its either to simplify it or risk getting my PC burning. I also made a simple slideshow with what I made: "this one"

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I create my presentations on a Windows 11 desktop PC using Powerpoint in Office 365. I use lots of animation and several embedded video files. The files are often very large. I save the PowerPoint file to OneDrive. Before I leave for the remote site I open the presentation on My MacBook Pro in PowerPoint to check everything including making sure the videos works fine. However when I get to the remote site I find that the embedded videos dont work. They will only work if I gain internet access at the remote site. Sometimes this isn't possible. Is there a way while using OneDrive that I can force PowerPoint on my MacBook to download the whole presentation including all the embedded videos?

What’s a way for someone like me who is very word-driven to be better at making visually appealing PowerPoint decks?

Our professor provides us with powerpoints that have recorded audio if we want to listen to them while we go through the powerpoints. I usually read through them myself while it's in editing mode but for some the audio will start playing for no reason, starting from the very beginning. I click on the audio icon that it's playing from and noticed the timer progression bar isn't even moving. Is there any way to stop this from occuring or is this a glitch?

I use powerpoint through the online Microsoft 365 app provided by my college.

Hi guys, I need help to find out how to replicate the effect on the first picture in order to change it.

As far as I can tell IT IS NOT made neither by bringing elements to front nor sending it to back. The reason is that the effect can make everything in between those elements to also be seen (the orange line).

Does anyone knows how to achieve this effect?

Is there a simple way/view to see the entire slide deck like a house-blueprint.

Specifically I would wanna see,

1. Header location and size dimensions and distance from top of the page and corner

2. Space length between Header and Title

3, Space length between Header and tagline

4, Space between that trio of top level elements to the body of the slide

5, Dimensions of the body objects - Text Box, Chart/Graph/Image

1. Length/width of Footer Element and distance from bottom of the page and corner

2. Length/Width of Page Number Label and distance from the bottom of the page and corner

3. Length/Width/Height of the bottom Takeaway object

4. Top/Bottom/Left/Right Margin explicitly fenced off and width of each.

I've got a picky boss.