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Paul Lukehart is founder and managing principal of PL Programs LLC, a project consulting firm founded in 2020. His background is in distribution and fulfillment operations, capital project management, and he has authored a book, Practical Floor Supervision on front-line operations leadership. Paul and his family live in Indiana, and in addition to slide decks for client needs, he works on projects like SimpleDim.
In this conversation, Paul discusses SimpleDim, an add-in that lets you work with CAD within PowerPoint.
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Tagged as: Add-in, CAD, Interviews, Paul Lukehart, PowerPoint, SimpleDim
Looking prepared is not the same as being prepared. That gap is what this issue explores. ScriptAssist closes it on camera, giving presenters a way to read their script while holding eye contact, so the audience sees confidence rather than effort. The executive presence article from Suasive argues that this kind of perceived confidence is learnable and that it shapes career outcomes more than most people expect. Our pre-conference conversations with John Polk, Lori Chollar, and Troy Chollar ahead of Presentation Summit 2026 bring the same idea into the room, where how you stand, speak, and connect with an audience often decides whether the message lands.
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Marcus thought he’d cracked the code. First, he learned to enable guides. Then, he discovered the right-click menu, and now is adding, coloring, and deleting guides like a pro. Then a colleague mentioned something called guide hierarchy, and Marcus froze. Hierarchy? He thought guides were just… lines. Marcus was happy to learn more. Turns out, guides in PowerPoint have layers, a bit like a family tree. There are guides that belong to the whole family (the Slide Master), guides that belong to individual branches (Slide Layouts), and guides that belong to just one person (your actual slides).
Learn about hierarchical guide options in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 365
Tagged as: Align, Guides, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Tutorials
Credibility is the thread running through this issue. INSYNCR, as Kurt Dupont explains, exists because a generated figure looks right but a bound figure is right, and the distinction is what boardrooms and client reports depend on. Laszlo Diewald’s presentaid Charts interview makes a similar point: annotations that move with the data, charts that open correctly for anyone, and numbers that don’t drift between tools. Then there is Presentation Summit 2026, September 13 to 16, where our conversations with Camille Holden, Chantal Bosse, Ilene Bergelson, and Sally Zimney remind us that credibility is just as fragile in the room as it is in the spreadsheet behind the slide.
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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint
Troy Chollar is co-founder and a Sr. Designer of TLC Creative Services and awarded by Microsoft as an MVP for PowerPoint for 24 consecutive years. For more than two decades, Troy has helped organizations create presentations ranging from executive briefings and sales decks to large-scale live event experiences. A regular presenter at The Presentation Summit (he was an attendee at the very first conference!), host of The Presentation Podcast, and the voice of ThePowerPointBlog, Troy is passionate about sharing practical PowerPoint techniques, animation strategies, and workflow improvements that presentation professionals can immediately apply to their own projects.
In this conversation, Troy talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
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Tagged as: Interviews, Presentation Summit, Troy Chollar
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