Whether you build PowerPoint slides every day or only occasionally, knowing some tried-and-true design principles can make your life a lot easier. In this video, I review four design principles used by professional designers, and walk through lots of examples of how to use them.…

If you’ve never experimented with the drawing tools in PowerPoint, it’s time you give them a try! Whether you’re working with a touch screen, a mouse or a digital pen, these tools allow you to hand-write almost anything—text, shapes, equations—and then convert them into computer-readable text and shapes that you can work with in your slides.…

You’ve been put in charge of party planning for your office, and you need an app that lets you create events. No problem! In this hands-on tutorial, I’ll show you from beginning to end how to build out a model-driven app to handle your requirements.…

The Canvas App in Power Apps allows you to create a rich, pixel-perfect app, with a lot of control over the user interface and experience. It’s also easy to hook this up to various data sources, including Dataverse.…

In a Microsoft Word document, it’s common to need to adjust your page numbers so they start at a specific number. Doing this is actually straightforward, so long as you understand how section breaks work.…

There’s a lot to learn in Power Apps, and the best way to do that is to get some hands-on practice. Microsoft’s model-driven sample apps make this a breeze, offering three fully-built apps that you can install in a new environment, complete with sample data.…

Just the other day, I needed to calculate ages for several people based on their date of birth. Rather than doing this manually, I set up an Excel spreadsheet and made use of the DATEDIF function to do the work for me.…

It’s common to need to add a watermark to a Microsoft Word document—either some text (like “DRAFT” or “CONFIDENTIAL”) or a picture, such as a company logo.…

It seems like I always need to remove picture backgrounds and make them transparent—for use in a presentation, a website or a printout. Microsoft PowerPoint offers two easy ways to do that from the Picture Format tab—no extra software required.…

Animated GIFs are everywhere today—from Facebook, Twitter, Slack, emails and more. And while there are various tools out there to create them, perhaps the easiest is right under your nose: Microsoft PowerPoint.…