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May 27, 2026
officeatwork brings a fresh, structured way for organizations to create brand consistent documents in Microsoft 365, helping teams stay visually aligned and professionally polished. Designed to support organizations of all sizes, officeatwork streamlines communication, supports team collaboration, and helps maintain brand compliance at scale.
You get 8 shape types plus lines as part of this Organic Shapes collection. Each of these 8 shape types have 10 variants. So you end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options! Again each of these 80 shapes have 12 brush stroke styles! Plus you get the lines and arrows in 12 brush stroke styles too. Combine all variations to end up with more than 3000 possibilities.
December 5, 2025
Boris Hristov is the Founder of presentation agency 356labs and a PowerPoint MVP. He has presented in 25+ countries and has been rated as the top speaker numerous times. Boris has years of experience as a trainer, mentor and consultant and works with many companies to help them craft and deliver truly effective presentations. In this conversation, Boris discusses the upcoming Present to Succeed 2026 online conference, being held in-person and online in London on May 21st, 2026, and in Sofia on June 12th, 2026.
Inserting a New Slide with Copilot in PowerPoint 365 for Windows
May 28, 2026
Once you turn on Gridlines in PowerPoint, you might think they are nothing more than a set of faint lines spread across your slide. It’s almost like graph paper from your school math notebook. And honestly, that first impression is not entirely wrong. Gridlines do give you a visual framework that helps you place pictures, shapes, and text boxes more neatly.
Learn how gridlines snap and help you position slide objects in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
May 26, 2026
In this issue, we focus on how precision and structure shape more effective presentations. We begin with a conversation with Laszlo Diewald about Gantt charts in presentaid, where project timelines become clearer, more visual, and easier to communicate to teams and stakeholders. From there, we revisit two often-overlooked PowerPoint essentials: rulers and gridlines. While simple on the surface, these tools help presenters align objects accurately, maintain balance, and create slides that feel polished and professional. Together, these stories highlight an important principle: whether you are managing projects or designing slides, clarity emerges when information is carefully structured, visually aligned, and thoughtfully presented.
Stay updated with the latest tutorials, tips, and news on PowerPoint and presentation techniques.
May 25, 2026
We’ve all been in the audiences of far too many presentations that unleash all the bells and the whistles of slideshow animation with a frenetic, pyrotechnic display that challenges a Fourth of July celebration or a night at Disneyland. That such excess happens is no surprise. The many options in the pull-down menus and ribbons of animation are as fascinating as are all the many joystick and button combinations on the keyboard or controller of a computer game. Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Transition has 48 effects grouped into three categories, with variable speed options for each. They cry out, “Try me!”
Learn more with Jerry Weissman.
May 21, 2026
Gridlines are non-printing horizontal and vertical reference lines that appear across the slide workspace to help position and align objects more accurately. These lines form a visual grid that makes it easier to arrange shapes, images, charts, text boxes, and other slide elements consistently.
Learn about working with gridlines in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
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