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If you want to see each column in your chart appear separately during your presentation, just follow these steps.

Copy a column chart from Excel.
Paste it onto a blank PowerPoint slide.
Select the Chart.
Click the Animation Tab.
Select the Fade effect.
Click on the Effects Options drop-down menu.

You can use the action button feature to create an interactive button that will launch other programs, documents or presentations from within your slideshow.

If you want to ensure you have a consistent color theme throughout your presentation, you can select one of the Microsoft design/color themes, or you can create a custom color theme.

On the Design tab, in the Themes group, click the arrow to the right of the Colors button
Select Create New Theme Colors at the bottom [...]

Many times we want a slide to look slightly different from the rest of the slides. This means that you may not want it to pull the same graphics, logos, etc…that is in the PowerPoint template. You can quickly eliminate these graphics from a specific slide.

From the desired slide, access the Design tab on the [...]

There may be times you may want to either give the PowerPoint presentation to someone who doesn’t have the software on their PC, or you will want to use a PC to show the presentation but it doesn’t have PowerPoint on it.

Using PowerPoint’s Reuse Slides feature allows you to quickly and easily see the slides you want to bring into your new or existing presentation, as well as give you the option to format as the new presentation or retain the original formatting.

The F5 key is a great shortcut key in many of the Office programs for everything from navigating, inserting named ranges into formula, and starting a slide show.

Fitting a PowerPoint slide exactly in the viewing screen can be a challenge, but the 2007 version has added a tool to make it easier.

Do you want to make text run vertically on your slide rather than horizontally? Here is a quick to do that by simply reshaping the text box placeholder.

Use these handy shortcuts to insert the copyright symbol, the trademark symbol and the registered symbol into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.