Echosvoice | Echo's PowerPoint site

Ever wanted to suggest a feature to the PowerPoint team? Well, here’s your chance! The Office folks have started using uservoice.com so the user community can suggest and vote on features.
To add a feature request or vote on current ones, head to powerpoint.uservoice.com. Scroll to the bottom of the page to select the correct forum (PowerPoint for iPad, PowerPoint for Windows, PowerPoint for Mac, etc.), and post your feature request there...

My last blog post discussed the difference in behavior between the picture icon in the Content placeholder and the actual Picture placeholder.
To recap, the picture icon in the Content placeholder (used on the left in the image below) inserts the entire picture, while the Picture placeholder (used on the right in the image below) fills the placeholder space with your picture....

I recently saw one of the most poorly built templates I’ve ever run across. It was created for a company in an industry where photographs of products and services are extremely important. The template had a lot of problems, but probably the worst was...

PowerPoint templates get a bad rap. That’s because most PowerPoint templates are pretty bad. They’re often ugly and they’re rarely built right. The thing is, it doesn’t have to be that way. A professionally designed and expertly crafted PowerPoint template...