10 Pretty Awesome Things You Can do With PowerPoint

It’d easy to bash PowerPoint, especially given the poor uses we see all too often … plain boring slides with no personality, or worse yet … slides that are inundated with text, delivered by monotone lecturers lacking enthusiasm. But this much maligned yet widely used application is capable of so much more! Just give PowerPoint a chance. Those who are experienced with some of these functions may find them a bit mundane, but I still remember how cool it was to find and use them for the first time. Following are 10 pretty cool things you can do with the popular presentation tool. 1. PowerPoint’s Animation capabilities are an easy way to bring some fun and pizzazz to your slides, with just a few clicks. Again, you’ll want to exercise some restraint here (before your audience puts you in restraints!). Here is a more detailed overview of using PowerPoint Animations. 2. One of the most flexible Animations available in PowerPoint is the Motion Path. 3. One set of Animations are for “Emphasis”.

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