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Imagine you’re getting ready to bake cupcakes. Before you start, you line up your bowls—one for flour, one for sugar, and one for sprinkles. Each bowl has a special job, right? PowerPoint placeholders are just like those bowls! They show you where to put things on your slide—your title at the top, your content in the middle, and your footers at the bottom. These placeholders can be easily identified because they have some boilerplate text such as Click to add title or Tap to add title, or similar.
When everything has its own spot, your slide titles and content show up consistently on the same location on each slide. Yes, your slides are organized and stress-free, and you can focus on creating the perfect presentation recipe instead of cleaning up a design mess.
Understanding Placeholders (and Why They’re So Cool)
Several types of Placeholders
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Tagged as: Geetesh Bajaj, PowerPoint, Techniques, Text Placeholders
By Barrera Alcova
PowerPoint has been around for decades. What started as a basic slideshow tool is now packed with features that help people pitch, teach, and persuade. If you’ve used PowerPoint recently, you’ve probably noticed it feels a lot smarter than it used to.
But what actually changed? What new tools made it more than just slides and bullet points?
This guide walks through the biggest innovations in PowerPoint over the years. Each one brought more power, flexibility, and creativity to everyday presentations.
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Tagged as: New Features, PowerPoint, Presentations, Thoughts
In 2025, the user interface in SaaS products is no longer just a shell. It is a strategic tool that determines the success of a business, from the speed of user adaptation to the level of their trust in the platform. Against the backdrop of global digitalization and an overabundance of solutions on the market, it becomes obvious: those who added more functions win, not those who made them intuitive.
The evolution of SaaS UI design shows how an interface can turn from “simply convenient” to “practically invisible” when the user does not notice the system because it does not interfere with their work. This approach requires a deep understanding of human behavior, habits, expectations, and, of course, the skill of designers.
By Barrera Alcova
Most people think their old presentations disappear after a pitch or school project. They don’t. Many are still floating around online—on Prezi, SlideShare, Scribd, speaker profiles, or in cached Google results.
Search your name and “filetype:ppt” or “filetype:pdf.” You might find that slideshow you made in 2012 with clip art, Comic Sans, and a bad joke about cloud computing. It’s still out there. And it’s not helping you.
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Tagged as: Guidelines, PowerPoint, Techniques
The title “Do audiences recall your slides?” might sound like aiming low. Why? Because great presentations are remembered for their speakers and messages, not just their slides.
What’s the point of memorable slides if your message is not remembered? The presenter and slides must work together as a team, delivering a consistent message. That’s how it works—audiences remember the whole package: the presenter, the slides, and the message.
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Tagged as: Carmen Simon, John Medina, Nancy Duarte, Richard Mayer, Vinod Khosla
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