If you create a diagram, graphic, or even flow chart with cyclic procedures, you can use predefined SmartArt graphics, but Cycle diagrams set is very limited. Moreover, modification of SmartArt graphic is not easy, and sometimes you will spend a lot of time for even trivial change. So, it is easier to create your own arrows in a circle diagram if you want to add a fresh look for your presentation.

3D effects for your presentation help to make it more visually appealing. This tip shows you how to replace boring numbered lists with 3D cubes.

Often you see the elements of the slide like the company logo, copyright notice, or background picture, which you can't change or remove because they are part of the company template and seem to be read-only. However, the secret is that if you open the Slide Master, you can change every element of the slide.

Sometimes you need a unique or a specific shape for cool visualization, but you can't find any suitable shape among predefined shapes in PowerPoint.
Sure, professional designers prefer to use other programs such as Corel Draw, Photoshop, etc. to modify the picture, photo, etc. or create a new object. But, why casual users should buy and master other tools than PowerPoint?

Sometimes you need to combine two or more shapes for creating a fancy diagram or other visual elements. Sure, you can add these shapes to the slide and then group them. But in some situations, such as frequent use of the same groups of shapes, it will be more useful to create your own shape.

Often PowerPoint presentations contain a lot of different pictures and photos. This can become a serious problem because top-quality digital cameras nowadays create very high-resolution pictures, much higher than you need for the on-screen PowerPoint presentation.

When you create your own design on the slide, very often, it contains a lot of different objects such as pictures, diagrams, charts, text boxes, shapes, etc. Sometimes it is difficult to select one of the objects - it can be behind other objects, or it can be too small, etc.
PowerPoint proposes an excellent feature named Selection pane that can help to navigate between different objects and groups.

Visual consistency of the presentation is one of the keys to success. The audience often finds averting presentations with misaligned titles and font styles. Fortunately, PowerPoint provides you all the necessary tools for making your presentations consistent.

When you insert pictures to your org chart (see how to create organization chart with picture) or other SmartArt chart with pictures, you don't need another program to prepare pictures. PowerPoint provides you a feature rich functionality for cropping, rotating, painting, and other formatting needs.

For business presentations, you often need to show an organizational chart like a future business structure chart or a corporate structure chart. PowerPoint has the predefined organization chart templates that make organization structure editing not harder than editing a simple list of items.