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September 8, 2026
Credibility is the thread running through this issue. INSYNCR, as Kurt Dupont explains, exists because a generated figure looks right but a bound figure is right, and the distinction is what boardrooms and client reports depend on. Laszlo Diewald's presentaid Charts interview makes a similar point: annotations that move with the data, charts that open correctly for anyone, and numbers that don't drift between tools. Then there is Presentation Summit 2026, September 13 to 16, where our conversations with Camille Holden, Chantal Bosse, Ilene Bergelson, and Sally Zimney remind us that credibility is just as fragile in the room as it is in the spreadsheet behind the slide.
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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.
September 8, 2026
Troy Chollar is co-founder and a Sr. Designer of TLC Creative Services and awarded by Microsoft as an MVP for PowerPoint for 24 consecutive years. For more than two decades, Troy has helped organizations create presentations ranging from executive briefings and sales decks to large-scale live event experiences. A regular presenter at The Presentation Summit (he was an attendee at the very first conference!), host of The Presentation Podcast, and the voice of ThePowerPointBlog, Troy is passionate about sharing practical PowerPoint techniques, animation strategies, and workflow improvements that presentation professionals can immediately apply to their own projects. In this conversation, Troy talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
Inserting a New Slide with Copilot in PowerPoint 365 for Windows
September 14, 2026
Marcus thought he'd cracked the code. First, he learned to enable guides. Then, he discovered the right-click menu, and now is adding, coloring, and deleting guides like a pro. Then a colleague mentioned something called guide hierarchy, and Marcus froze. Hierarchy? He thought guides were just... lines. Marcus was happy to learn more. Turns out, guides in PowerPoint have layers, a bit like a family tree. There are guides that belong to the whole family (the Slide Master), guides that belong to individual branches (Slide Layouts), and guides that belong to just one person (your actual slides).
Learn about hierarchical guide options in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
September 8, 2026
Troy Chollar is co-founder and a Sr. Designer of TLC Creative Services and awarded by Microsoft as an MVP for PowerPoint for 24 consecutive years. For more than two decades, Troy has helped organizations create presentations ranging from executive briefings and sales decks to large-scale live event experiences. A regular presenter at The Presentation Summit (he was an attendee at the very first conference!), host of The Presentation Podcast, and the voice of ThePowerPointBlog, Troy is passionate about sharing practical PowerPoint techniques, animation strategies, and workflow improvements that presentation professionals can immediately apply to their own projects. In this conversation, Troy talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
September 7, 2026
Lori Chollar is co-founder and CEO of TLC Creative Services, Inc., a design studio that thrives in the presentation world, and the live and virtual event industry. Her diverse design background spans traditional graphic and print design, apparel and product design, and a whole lot of presentation, template, and multimedia design. Building from a formal degree in graphic design to a thriving freelance business, her company with husband Troy has grown into a successful corporate design studio. Lori is passionate about good design and good business. In this conversation, Lori talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
September 4, 2026
John Polk is the coauthor of Presentation Pitfalls. He is President of John Polk & Associates and a former Data Visualization Professor at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business. John designed the “Creating Effective Presentations” workshop for Capital One, which over 10,000 associates have attended. John now teaches workshops and coaches leaders to design and deliver presentations that engage, influence, and drive action. In this conversation, John talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
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