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Rulers in PowerPoint 365 for Windows

May 18, 2026

When working with multiple slide objects in PowerPoint, it is important to maintain proper alignment and positioning to ensure a clean and professional slide layout. Although PowerPoint provides precise coordinate-based positioning options, most design tasks only require a general visual reference for object placement. In such cases, the Rulers feature provides a convenient way to estimate positioning and alignment directly on the slide.

Learn about using rulers in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.

Gantt Charts in presentaid: Conversation with Laszlo Diewald

May 13, 2026

Laszlo Diewald has been working as a consultant for more than 10 years now. He started his career as an employee right after his study at the Technical University of Munich. Shortly after, he decided to become self-employed as a freelance consultant. In 2017, he founded his own consultancy, with a focus on large scale projects in the financial sector. In parallel, he started working on presentaid, which was finally launched in April 2022. In this conversation, Laszlo talks about presentaid’s new Gantt chart feature.

Read the conversation here.

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Pictures in Presentations

Is a picture is worth a thousand words? You probably have heard this adage so often that we decided not to repeat this phrase throughout this book! Now here’s some more info: the human brain uses a larger part of its area to store visual information rather than textual content. And that’s possibly because a picture describes so much more than text.