Waterfall charts can X-ray a complicated story. Here is an explanation about the technicalities of creating one in PowerPoint, here is an example of an application.

I just returned from a wonderful holiday in France and hope to pick up my posting habits soon. While in France, I read this interesting book: Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

If you are not running PowerPoint 2010 (review), then the 2nd line of a bullet point will always come out wrong. Here is how to fix it.

PowerPoint makes it possible to morph text in a circle, read the details here in this earlier post.

One of the best-kept secrets of PowerPoint is the selection pane, that allows you to remove overlapping objects from a slide temporarily to make it easier to edit layers. Details here in a previous post.

I have joined the legion of designers in criticizing the comic sans font (earlier post here). In this rant (strong language warning), comic sans strikes back at us, elitist Helvetica fans. Written by Mike Lacher, thank you Ellen Daehnick for suggesting it.

With color and light effects you can create a black board in PowerPoint, an earlier post here.

Cutting and pasting your object as a PNG image allows you to cut up regular PowerPoint shapes in random components. See an example here.

When Frankensteining a deck (i.e., stitching a new presentation together from old slides), there is nothing more annoying then slide formats that go crazy when pasting in slides. Here is a trick to avoid this.