Sometimes you have no time to finish the slide or find at the last moment that it isn't important for this presentation. On this occasion, you can save your presentation to a different file, delete the slide, and use the backup file later. However, you will not have all the notes, highlights, and drawings you made during the presentation. Instead, you can hide the slide and have all the information in one place.

It is now popular to create PowerPoint slides with diagrams or charts drawn using the chalk or marker effect. If you create slides with this effect, it will be great to create an agenda or other slides in the same style. For some PowerPoint slides, you can add a background image with a chalk or marker effect:

When you prepare a PowerPoint presentation, you can add some information from an external source file. For example, many presentations contain some data from an Excel spreadsheet or Excel charts.

For some charts or diagrams, you need to create a regular polygon – equiangular (all angles are equal) or equilateral (all sides have the same length). E.g., equilateral triangle, regular square, etc.

When you create a text box in your presentation, any text you type appears with the default font that can be different from version to version...

When you create a shape in your presentation, it is created with the default style, and any text you type has the default font.

Using different fonts for creating shapes is useful, fast, and easy. Different letters of different fonts can give your pictures a creative and modern look. Letters can emulate brush or crayon effects, water stains, or even drops and waves. This tip is about the drops effect that can help you create beautiful pictures.

There are a lot of ways how to show your picture on the PowerPoint slide. You can choose different borders with ornaments and colors, use different shapes for it, or use letters like shapes. This tip is about the water stains effect that can help you create illustrations.

To create a modern looking illustration in your PowerPoint presentation, you can use a brush effect, add pictures with torn edges, or make a mask for pictures using simple and fast tricks. This tip is about another effect that can help you create different crayon effects.

When creating a presentation, you simply choose some existing company presentation template. However, you might need to invent something new and creative to impress the stakeholders. This tip shows how to use several simple shapes to create a visually appealing design for your slides.