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Good presentations are built on decisions made well before the room fills up. The widescreen 16:9 versus 4:3 article is one of those decisions: get it wrong and your slides shrink themselves in front of your audience. Tutorials on Gantt charts in Ampler, guide options in PowerPoint 365, and related tools round out the practical side of this issue. And then there is Presentation Summit 2026, running September 13 to 16, where our pre-conference conversations with Rick Altman, Nolan Haims, Mike Parkinson, and Robin Davis each push the same idea: clarity, evidence, and intention are what separate a presentation that lands from one that doesn’t.
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Chantal Bossé helps people turn ideas into presentations that get results. A Microsoft MVP, TEDx speaker coach, LinkedIn Learning instructor, and author of Microsoft PowerPoint Mastery, she has spent more than 20 years helping organizations communicate more clearly with PowerPoint, Microsoft 365, and visual storytelling. Since the earliest days of Microsoft 365 Copilot, she has been testing and teaching AI tools in real business environments, with a practical, honest focus on what works, what doesn’t, and where human judgment still matters.
In this conversation, Chantal talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
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Camille Holden is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP and co-owner of Nuts & Bolts Speed Training, which she runs with her husband Taylor Croonquist. She designs presentations for corporate clients, trains teams in PowerPoint, and teaches courses on LinkedIn Learning that have reached hundreds of thousands of people. Half French, half American, she works out of Ventura, California, and spends more time than she’d like to admit inside other people’s slide decks.
In this conversation, Camille talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
Indezine.com is the official media partner for the Presentation Summit.
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Robin Davis is the founder and CEO of Metre, a healthcare-focused proposal firm helping organizations turn complex RFPs into winning growth opportunities. With 25 years of experience winning business in healthcare, Robin is a visionary entrepreneur, speaker, APMP Fellow, and unapologetic lover of proposals who believes clarity is a competitive advantage. Since founding Metre in 2009, she has built a reputation for bringing strategy, structure, and compelling storytelling to high-stakes sales pursuits resulting in $20B in revenue for her clients. A natural connector and wired to build, Robin also owns Homegrown Taproom & Kitchen in Nashville, TN with her wife.
In this conversation, Robin talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
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Guides help you line up objects on your slides. Most of us use them in a basic way and never look further. This page covers Guide Options in PowerPoint 365 for Windows. You can add guides through the right-click menu, place them exactly where you want, and even change their color to mark different areas of a slide. These options make it easier to build layouts, manage busy slides, and keep elements consistent across a deck. If you’ve only used the default guides so far, this walkthrough shows you what else is possible.
Explore options to use Guides more effectively in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
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