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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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Rick Altman has been hired by hundreds of companies, watched by tens of thousands of professionals, and read by millions of people, all of whom seek better results with their presentation content and delivery. He covers the whole industry, from message crafting, through presentation design, slide creation, software technique, and delivery.
In this conversation, Rick talks about the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
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Nolan Haims has over 25 years of experience in the fields of visual communications and presentation, having created every type of presentation from Fortune 500 CEO keynotes to TED talks to multi-million-dollar agency pitches.
As Director of Presentation for Edelman, the world’s largest PR firm, he created and ran a department dedicated to raising the agency’s bar on visual communication and created winning pitches worth millions.
He trains organizations to think visually, speaks at national conferences, and is a co-host of the long-running Presentation Podcast. As one of only 40 Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs in the world, he works with and advises the software development team. He runs his own visual communications consultancy in Montclair, NJ. He is the author of The Better Deck Deck.
In this conversation, Nolan talks about his participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
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Mike Parkinson is a geek. He is 1 of 36 Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs in the world, is an internationally recognized communication and presentation expert, best-selling author, and professional trainer. Mike’s keynotes, training, books, and tools such as Build-a-Graphic help companies succeed while saving money and time. He owns Billion Dollar Graphics and is a partner at 24 Hour Company, a premier creative services firm.
In this conversation, Mike talks about his participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2026, being held virtually from September 13 to 16, 2026.
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This issue keeps coming back to the presenter, not the slides. Akash Choudhry talks about think-cell’s Business Presentation survey. Survey results found that AI adoption is high but satisfaction gaps remain, particularly when human judgment and credibility matter most. Bob Befus’s ScriptAssist interview is built on exactly that insight: presenters who worry about their notes lose their audience. And the thin smiles piece from 2012 holds up surprisingly well. A presenter who looks disconnected, whether staring at a script or wearing a fixed expression, loses the room either way. Three reads, one message: no tool replaces the person actually in front of the audience.
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