Tutorials & Tips

Customer Relationship Management Diagram in PowerPoint

Customer Relationship Management (also known as CRM) is a widely implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. However, CRM is not just a software package or …

Types of PowerPoint Animations

PowerPoint animations enable you to add animations to presentation elements including text, graphics, charts, and more. It is important to notice the difference between transitions which are applied to slides and animations which are applied to presentation elements. Here we will see some of the animations types available to use in PowerPoint presentations. This can …

Marimekko Charts PowerPoint

Marimekko Charts are widely used in finance projects, economy and also in MBA courses like in Harvard Business School. Marimekko charts are also widely adopted in Marketing for example to analyze customer segmentation and market segmentation. Here we will show you how to build a Marimekko Chart in PowerPoint. Once you have chosen the chart type, you need …

Hiding slides in PowerPoint

Hiding slides in PowerPoint is a good way to skip slides during a slideshow presentation without removing the content. By hiding slides in your PPT presentation you can bypass certain slides from the presentation without the need to delete the slide. This can be very convenient for example if you need to finish the slide …

Opening PowerPoint in Safe Mode

PowerPoint in Safe Mode

You can open PowerPoint or any other Microsoft Office family program easily by pressing CTRL key while the program is starting. This will open PowerPoint in safe mode and can be used to track down problems with your current installation. Alternatively you can use the command line parameter /safe while starting PowerPoint or any other …

How to format a 3D sphere in PowerPoint

Shapes are powerful tool in PowerPoint, we have discussed about this in Using Shapes in PowerPoint . Using shapes we can not only make 2D figures and illustrations but also complex 3D spheres and designs, applying format options and gradients. Here we will show you how to convert 2D shapes in a simple 3D sphere …

Adding animated transitions to PowerPoint slides

PowerPoint 2010 comes with enhanced transitions and animations that we can use to make awesome animated presentations. Using transitions we can enhance our PowerPoint presentations and keep our audience stand up. However, in advance we need to understand that transitions is not the key of the presentation, you need to first focus on the content …