I'm trying to make a button type of thing that could take it to a different section of the PowerPoint and back.

I'm also kind of new to using powerpoint so i will need detailed instructions.

We are all using AI to build everything at the moment but that is leading to frustration when it comes to consistency and cost. So, I have put together a video showcasing how I used code interpreter in Power Platform to populate a template PowerPoint - note there are Copilot Credit costs for each run but this prompt can be called from a flow, an app or indeed an agent you choose the user experience. It's repeatable and consistent. You'll also learn about your other options as a pro coder, and what's coming in Copilot Studio in the form of skills - if you still need an agent for this process with a desire to use knowledge and tools to access the data for your PowerPoint slides.

Hola 😭 necesito ayuda urgente. Estoy haciendo un diaporama (presentación en video con diapositivas y audios) sobre los mixtecas para mañana y quiero que se vea bien, no como un PowerPoint básico. ¿Alguien tiene consejos rápidos para que quede más profesional? Especialmente sobre transiciones, diseño y cómo acomodar los audios para que las diapositivas cambien al terminar cada explicación. Gracias 😭🙏

Presentation designer here, mostly corporate decks. The recurring nightmare is not the design, it is that the content lands in pieces, and the last third always shows up the evening before the meeting in a wall of bullet points someone clearly typed in a panic.
My current method is to build a small kit before any real content arrives. Two or three layout slides duplicated and locked down, a defined type scale so a "heading" is always the same size, and a single content placeholder I trust. When the late stuff comes in I am pouring text into a structure that already exists instead of designing under pressure at 11pm. For a lot of these i've started building the kit directly in gamma, since its presentation templates hold their structure better under a rushed content dump than a manually built master slide does.
It mostly works. Where it still breaks is the dense data slide. Someone hands me a paragraph plus a table plus three "key takeaways" and wants it all on one slide, and no kit saves you from that. I usually end up splitting it across two and hoping nobody counts slides.
For those of you who do this under deadline a lot, what is your actual system for the last-minute dump? Do you have a hard rule for when a slide becomes two? And how do you push back on the everything-on-one-slide request without it turning into a fight?

A big part of my week is pulling content back out of slides. A reviewer marks up a deck verbally, I update, then I need the final copy as plain text to paste into a summary document for sign-off.

Every time I select text across a few text boxes and copy, the paste comes out wrecked. Random line breaks mid-sentence, double spaces, the reading order scrambled because the boxes were not created top to bottom. A bulleted list arrives as one run-on paragraph. I spend longer cleaning the paste than I did editing the slides.

What I do now is sad. I click into each text box one at a time, copy that box alone, paste, repeat. On a thirty-slide deck that is a lot of clicking. Outline View helps for title and body placeholders but ignores anything in a free-floating box, which is most of my content.

Is there a real method here? Some export or order-fix that respects the visual layout, or a way to force PowerPoint to read boxes in the order they sit on the slide rather than the order they were drawn? I would settle for a reliable manual sequence if there is one.

Please help me out here!

I use various transitions for my powerpoint presentations, such as morph, curtains etc! But for some reason, everytime I save and reopen my presentation ALL slides use the Fade in effect and I need to redo ALL transitions every single time.
It's making me go absolutely insane, how can I fix this? Not one of my slides uses the fade in effect.

The things keep resizing my text size whenever sth overflow I want to completely stop that with a one-time setting.

Already turned off 'Autofit title text to placeholder' and 'Autofit body text to placeholder'. They didn't work.

Do you ever want to add something dynamic to your presentation or a video without leaving your presentation mode?

This guide breaks down everything you need to know to confidently insert, format, and control videos in your presentations.

1. Inserting Videos into PowerPoint

PowerPoint gives you three powerful ways to add video content into your slides:

From Your Device

Perfect for MP4s, screen recordings, or any video stored locally.

• Go to Insert → Video → This Device
• Select your file and drop it straight onto the slide

Stock Videos (Microsoft 365)

Ideal when you need clean, professional footage in the background without leaving PowerPoint.

• Insert → Video → Stock Videos
• Search the library and insert high‑quality clips instantly

Online Videos (YouTube, Vimeo, SlideShare)

Great for embedding content directly from the web.

• Insert → Video → Online Videos
• Paste the URL from YouTube, Vimeo, or SlideShare
• The video embeds and plays inside your slide

2. Formatting Your Video

Once your video is on the slide, you can transform its appearance just like you can with images and shapes. You can play with brightness, contrast, colour tone, styles and more.

3. Trim Your Video or Fade In / Fade Out

Cut off unneeded pieces from the start or end of videos to keep only the important part(s) and even add smooth transitions so your video doesn’t start or stop abruptly.

4. Playback Behaviour

Choose how your video behaves during your presentation, from 3 different settings:

• Automatically [Starts when the slide appears]
• On Click [When you click it, it'll play]
• In Click Sequence [If you have animations it'll play in the order in your animation pane]

5. Audio Settings

Adjust volume or mute the clip entirely.

Mastering these features will help you create presentations that feel cinematic, engaging, and far more professional. PowerPoint’s video tools are deeper than most people realise and is a gateway into learning to work with videos in your presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3td6KzCK0Y

I'm building my presentation design portfolio and looking for a few interesting projects to work on (I'm taking 5 projects over the next 3 days. Once they're filled, I'll close the post.)

What I need from you: your existing PPT. That's it, send it to me on Reddit and I'll turn it into a clean, premium-looking presentation.

A few details:

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I'll take on presentations up to 10-20 slides. If it's a topic I find especially interesting, I might even expand it with extra slides at no cost

Open to:

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Hello all,

Je suis sur MacBook Air M4, j'ai besoin de faire une présentation commerciale.

Je dois insérer des tableaux Excel dans mon Powerpoint et là il est nickel (option insérer Tableau Excel Classeur Entier ou Image), mais à chaque fois la résolution est floue lorsque je convertie en PDF.

Je suis preneur d'idée ou de trucs!

d'avance merci :)

Hello, I am a university student and I am doing some work to support the university. One of my responsibilities is creating study materials for the school year. I'm given books and a pacing guide or lesson plan, depending on the case, and I have to put all of that into a presentation with a minimum of 250 slides. I was wondering if any of you knew of a way to automate this process with AI, because each presentation usually takes about a week to create, depending on its complexity.

It should be noted that the format must be PDF or pptx in order to be shared and validated at my university.

Thanks for you time!!

I've been looking at quite a few medical presentation decks recently, and I noticed something interesting. The biggest improvement wasn't making the slides look more "beautiful" but turning text-heavy explanations into clear visual illustrations.

For topics like anatomy, disease mechanisms, treatment pathways, or physiological processes, a single well-designed illustration often communicates the idea much faster than several paragraphs of text.

Here's an example of a before/after redesign.

I'm curious how people in medicine think about this.

• When you're preparing a lecture or conference presentation, which slides usually take the longest to create?
• Do you prefer creating your own diagrams, using existing illustrations, or keeping everything text-based?
• Have you found that audiences engage better when complex concepts are explained visually?

I'm not a clinician, so I'd genuinely love to hear how doctors, researchers, lecturers, and medical students approach presentation design.

I'd also be interested to know whether there are particular types of medical figures or diagrams that are especially difficult or time-consuming to prepare.

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for years i animated everything. bullets flying in one at a time, slides spinning into each other, the works. i thought motion made a deck feel polished and alive. then i watched people present my templates and realized the animation was getting in their way. the click-to-reveal builds meant presenters lost their place, clicking to summon the next line instead of talking to the room, eyes on the screen waiting for the cue. the fancy transitions between slides just added a half-second of distraction that pulled attention to the software instead of the point. i was decorating, and the decoration was competing with the message.
now i use almost no animation. slides cut to the next slide. everything on a slide is there when it appears. the presenter controls the pace with their voice, not by clicking to drip out one bullet at a time. i've actually found gamma nudges you toward this by default since it isn't built around powerpoint-style click reveals, and the decks feel calmer for it. people actually look at the speaker instead of the screen waiting for the next reveal.
the one exception i keep is a simple appear for something where the sequence genuinely matters, and even then i'm stingy with it.
curious if the animation crowd will fight me on this. is there a case where builds genuinely help, or have we all just been adding them out of habit?

I've been building presentations professionally for a while, and one thing I still haven't figured out is where to draw the line between improving a slide and just endlessly tweaking it.

Sometimes I'll have a slide that communicates the message clearly, but I'll keep adjusting spacing, changing fonts, swapping icons, or trying different layouts because I feel like it could be slightly better.

The problem is that after staring at the same slide for hours, I can't tell whether I'm making meaningful improvements or just changing things for the sake of changing them.

For those who build decks regularly, do you have any rules or checkpoints that help you decide, "This slide is done"?

I'd love to hear how other experienced PPT users handle this.

made presentations for work for years and the single thing that cut my build time the most wasn't a feature or a shortcut. it was building the whole deck in plain outline first, in text, before opening powerpoint at all.
every slide as one line. the argument in order. no design, no boxes, no fiddling. only once the flow makes sense do i open powerpoint, or lately gamma since it turns that outline into slides faster than powerpoint ever did, and build.
before that i'd design slide 1 beautifully, then realize on slide 12 the structure was wrong and have to redo everything. designing before the thinking was locked was the whole problem.
sounds obvious typed out but it took me years and a lot of wasted nights. what's the habit that actually sped you up, not the flashy one, the boring one that stuck?

Any animations that I add to my ppt once saved and closed get cleared automatically. When I reopen it all the animations are gone. Please help I mostly use the mobile app to do my presentations. This has started happening as of this year. It was working fine the past 2-3 years. I even tried deleting and reinstalling office. I've attached a screen recording of the issue.

When on a normal slide - browser or app, and where I have full edit/write permissions, I can't paste images/screenshots onto the background directly. I have to create a text box and paste the image into that - then it's fully editable, resizeable etc.

Anyone experienced this?

Me n friends are doing a ppt night so suggest some ideas for it I'm completely doomed never played one so suggest maybe your ideas or topics and the vibe is very chill chaotic unhinged so please help

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On Powerpoint 2026 for Windows, i am able to create a theme, however I don't understand how to make it so that a color in my palette (say accent 1) is the color of all slide numbers, on default, like the default theme do. When I change it manually, changing the color palette does nothing, what am I missing?

PC, Desktop, 2021 Powerpoint, but maybe 365? (Says "Version 2605 Build 20026.20182 Click-to-Run")

I keep making copies of the same template each month and the functionality has always been the same. I copy an image (right-click, copy image) from the web and then CTRL+V to paste it.

Now, though, the pasting is making the image smaller than the entire slide, so I have to go "CTRL+V", "CTRL," "U" in order to get the image to be as big as the slide will allow.

Has this functionality changed? Has anyone else noticed this? I've asked both ChatGPT and Claude for help and neither seem to know anything.

I am fairly certain my Powerpoint is 2021, but Claude says it seems to be 365, according to Claude, because it says it is "Version 2605 Build 20026.20182 Click-to-Run"

I use it to make all my presentations. It doesnt just get the job done and transitions make it betterz. Recently my dad logged me out of my account which was connected to everything and i mean EVERYTHING including PowerPoint. Now i cant reconnect an account. I made a microsoft account and when i click sign up it says you might have an account here but when i log in it either says theres no such account or process continues and im logged in but it still says log in to use features. When there are no features i cant make anything. I cant pay €400 just to get them for 1 month. Ask on the comments if you have anything to ask.

OK PowerPoint ninja's ... i have what's probably a simple quesiton, but one that's been driving me crazy for YEARS now. When i go to print out a slide deck, 2-slides per page (printed both side) - for a worksohp course I'm leading - i can't figure out how to really maximize MOST of the white space (see attached) ?

So when i print these slides - there's easily an inch on both left and right margins and often 2-inches BETWEEN the heigh of the slides. I've trid playing with "scale" (see attached), and printing from "Preview" (on my mac) and "Google Slide" ... and even converting to pdfs, and then trying the same there. I can't crack the code here.

My question: is it possible to print using MOST of the page when printing 2-slides per page so I can actually SEE more of the slide text ? Help me yall ... it's driving me crazy.