You don’t have to wing it when presenting a slideshow. We’ll show you how to add notes to PowerPoint so that you have your talking points at your fingertips.

If one star in your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation is fun, then lots of stars might be exciting. See how easy it is to add multiple flashing stars in a PowerPoint slide.

You can add a border to a PowerPoint slide by adding a rectangle shape and removing the fill color, which will give the appearance of a border.

One way to do this is by adding snow to a PowerPoint slide. The article How to make it snow in PowerPoint offers a basic snow plan that uses the same shape and random timing effects.

Although older versions of PowerPoint required you to go through the Header and Footer menu to add a footnote, all PowerPoint 2010 slides come with a section designed specifically for footnotes.