This tutorial is intended to supplement the Understanding PowerPoint Accessibility article. Placeholders in PowerPoint allow you to add text or multimedia content to a slide. Adding a text box (Home > ...

"Presenters are usually guilty of including too much data in their on-screen charts," says Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen. It's not that charts are bad in a PowerPoint presentation, but ...

If you don’t want the same rectangular pictures for your Microsoft PowerPoint slide show, create a custom-shaped picture placeholder and make it available to the presentation via a layout slide.

If you insert a lot of pictures into PowerPoint slides, you’re going to love the new layout placeholders in PowerPoint 2007 and later. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships.