Presentation expert Garr Reynolds says "backgrounds should be simple without lots of perceptible differences among the background image itself since this would interfere with the foreground elements." ...

PowerPoint has a great set of special effects, graphics, animations, and template themes. There’s just one problem: Everybody else has the same effects, animations, and template themes that you have.

You can create your own PowerPoint templates, which you can then open later and use. To create a PowerPoint template, create a new presentation and edit it however you like, and then save it as a ...