
Not only will you have wasted your time, but you’ll be wasting the time of people who decided to come to your ineffective presentation, only to fall asleep during your speech. Imagine spending a lot of time on a presentation, only to produce ineffective slides. Those could be easy fixes if you are good with PowerPoint, but what if you are not? Manually creating the layout for slides can take a long time and, moreover, can be quite inaccurate. You’ll need to visualize concepts on your slides look for images or icons that are relevant to your message and then you’ll have to work on the multiple formatting options that PowerPoint offers. This means that, as the bare minimum, you’ll probably have to fix alignments between objects, select a proper font, define a color palette, setup the slide master in PowerPoint, etc. However, PowerPoint users are struggling, and the amount of time wasted on presentations is growing faster than ever.Ĭreating a presentation takes a long time: you need to structure the story you need to gather all information and then the design process starts.

PowerPoint is an easy and accessible tool within the Microsoft Office suite. If you are a manager, a student or an entrepreneur, there is every chance that you’ve used PowerPoint at least once in the last few days. With millions of presentations delivered every day, PowerPoint has become a core tool for anybody who needs to present a project and persuade others to adopt their ideas.

Maurizio La Cava makes presentations every day and makes extensive use of PowerPoint add-ins, so he has put together a list of what he considers to be the best ones, grouped for top functions and discusses them in detail below.
