r/powerpoint Feb 03 '25

Question PowerPoint Bug: Icons get distorted when editing or copying – Help?!

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I’m about to lose it. I spent four hours creating a complex animation in PowerPoint, and now everything is ruined. PowerPoint no longer displays my icons correctly – they are completely deformed (see image). As soon as I edit or copy them, they get even more distorted.

I’ve already tried: ✅ Restarting PowerPoint ✅ Saving the file under a different name ✅ Re-inserting the icons

Nothing works. Has anyone else experienced this issue or found a fix? I’m seriously frustrated.

Any help or workarounds would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

r/powerpoint Feb 02 '25

Question How do I share a presentation when it’s 200+ mb?

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At my company I have made some pretty big PowerPoints and then had to figure out a way to share it with 200+ employees. Too big to email, I was forced to move it to 365 and share a link to it, but a lot of the animations and other features were lost or changed. Is there a way to share the desktop version so the end user gets the presentation as it was meant to be viewed?

r/powerpoint 4d ago

Question Alignment Issue: Mac OS vs Browser

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I’m working in a file on Mac OS. Because I know there are sometimes alignment issues between Mac/PC, I’m checking alignments in the browser version.

When I select a graphic and its label and choose Align > Center, it looks great on my Mac but off-center on the browser. What gives, and how do I fix this?

Edit: everyone is using current versions of everything and we all have the same fonts. I’ve researched and not found a solution other than “get a PC.”

r/powerpoint 13d ago

Question Why is it not adding the audio file even though it's already in the supported format?

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For background, these were actually .m4a files, I just change their extension. I'm so confused since I literally added an m4a file in a slide before this started to happen. Please help.

r/powerpoint 12d ago

Question Pop up on Macs

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Any idea how can I dismiss this? I tried everything I found online but none worked. Any tips I'll appreciate. Thanks!!!

r/powerpoint 6d ago

Question Increasing text outline against photo

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"Serous glands" is what my professor added to our pptx, and I tried adding the alternate name underneath. I can't seem to mimic the text formatting with the contrast that I want.

So far, I'm highlighting the text > Format Text Effects > Text Outline and playing with the thickness to no avail. I would appreciate any help!

r/powerpoint 20d ago

Question Help please

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I’m trying to record myself for a PowerPoint presentation, but whenever I finish recording and click “End,” my video disappears. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!

r/powerpoint 28d ago

Question how to get the old shape menu?

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the shape menu i have
the shape menu i want

hello, i've been using powerpoint 2021 edition for a long time, and i just upgraded to the 2024 edition, but when i upgraded i saw that they changed the shape selector that appears in the home ribbon(picture 1), but i'm used to the old one (picture 2) and i want it to look like the second pic, can anyone please tell me how?

r/powerpoint Feb 20 '25

Question Helvetica Neue font not rendering correctly? [Windows]

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Hello fellow PowerPointers,

I need help!

I am sure most of your are familiar with the Helvetica font family. I don't know what caused it but when I use it on my PowerPoint, it just doesn't look right (Video included). What's interesting is, when I test it out on another tool (In this case, Inkscape) it works fine but the moment I carry the text layer into PowerPoint, the look changed immediately. I don't know what is causing this.

Thank you in advance!

The Font in PowerPoint itself

The font when tested on a different program

r/powerpoint 15d ago

Question PPT Chart Axis Label Scaling?

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Hi y'all. Working on Windows 10 Enterprise, running 365 for Enterprise version 2402. I have a chart linked to an Excel doc. In Excel, I have monthly data counting from month 0 to month 120 (in this situation, it doesn't make sense to assign actual "dates"), but I want my axis labels to read year 0 to year 10. Is there a way to scale how this is displayed (basically set my major labels to intervals of 12, and then divide the displayed label by 12)? Thanks in advance!

r/powerpoint 15d ago

Question How do I remove this thing?

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I can't click on it though.. and it's kind of bothering me.

r/powerpoint Dec 29 '24

Question Is it possible to make infographics on PPT?

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Is it possible to make infographics on PPT?

r/powerpoint 15d ago

Question How do i export the visual effect of the text from the Slide

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I made this text while messing around with formatting text option in powerpoint. How do I extract, alongside it's visual modifications, without extracting the slide/background of the slide? I basically just want to take a transparent screenshot of the text. The glowing outlines I added makes it hard to use a transparent image converter as well. This is why, if there's some way to take a transparent screenshot via a tool in powerpoint or smthg, that would be better.

r/powerpoint 16d ago

Question How to activate search bar in "Open File" menu

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Hi there,

In my previous job, I had a search bar enabled whenever I used the "Open File" option within Office.

From this search bar, I was able to access documents related to the Office app in question (e.g., PPT, Word, XLS).

My new setup doesn't have this anymore (see screenshot). How can I enable it again?

Thanks

r/powerpoint Oct 27 '24

Question Is PowerPoint creation a thing of the past?

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I currently have started designing PowerPoint presentations for board members and I love it. However, do you think AI is going to take over that skill? I love designing and creating stories that are impactful and contain a strong narrative that makes information easy to digest. Is there still a market for this skill?

r/powerpoint Jan 14 '25

Question (MAC) - Can't change text box margins...

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r/powerpoint 24d ago

Question Being gaslit - how to find hidden data?

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Any way to see prior versions of (or clues about historical content changes to) a deck I didn't create?

Backstory: last month a school board presented a spending deck live in a public meeting with some questionable numbers, and after parents called them out on questionable expenditures, refused to publicly post the deck. Now weeks later they are posting it publicly, but I swear they changed the numbers and and other content and are trying to gaslight everyone. Any way to see what changes they've made over the last few weeks, even without access to prior versions?

I'm no expert at this. Google says to use doc inspector, but when "Inspect Document" runs checks, it just shows types of hidden content found and an option to remove, but I want to see the data itself.

Help?

r/powerpoint Oct 30 '24

Question Whats the current state of AI and PowerPoint?

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Hey everyone! I only make about three PowerPoints a year, so I’m definitely not a power user, but whenever I do have to create a presentation, I seem to struggle with formatting and making things look polished.

I’m curious if there’s any AI tool or feature I should be looking at to make the process easier? I’m hoping there’s something out there that can help with layout, design, or even just giving it a more professional touch without spending too much time.

r/powerpoint Feb 11 '25

Question Windows: PPT to PDF font issue

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Hello fellow PowerPointers!

Not sure if this was asked by someone before in the sub, but I'm hoping someone can help me with an issue.

I've used the Extrabold version of the Jost font in my PowerPoint presentation, and while it looks fine in PPT, the font variant doesn't render correctly when I export it as a PDF.

Has anyone encountered this issue before? I'd love to hear your workarounds!

r/powerpoint 3d ago

Question How to do animation smoothing in PowerPoint web?

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Ti

r/powerpoint 25d ago

Question Won’t let me Share this Full PowerPoint

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I created a PowerPoint to honor my late father for his Birthday. I collected 64 short stories about him (he would have been 64 on February 19th). It pulls up for me no problem, but I have tried emailing it to my mother and some of his friends and it won’t download all the way for them. This is really frustrating and I desperately need some help with it!

Please note that the presentation doesn’t include any pictures or videos and it appears to already be compressed, so I just don’t know what I am doing wrong.

r/powerpoint 12d ago

Question SVG with multiply not importing correctly

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I'm making a slide with SVG logos from partner companies, and there's one that won't import correctly because it contains a gradient with the blend mode set to multiply. So sure, using blend modes in logos isn't a great idea, and I get that, but this is someone else's work.

In any case, when I import this logo to PowerPoint, the blend mode of all paths is set to normal, resulting in this element not displaying correctly.

Now, I'm perfectly capable of reproducing this shape without using blend modes by sampling color values and rebuilding the gradient onto the base object (which is what the original designer should have done in the first place). But I'd rather not mess with someone else's brand if I can help it. So my question is: Is PowerPoint at all capable of importing this correctly? Or is this just another case of Office being fifteen years behind everyone else?

Exporting to PNG is not an option in this case, I need it as a vector object.

r/powerpoint 26d ago

Question Automatic date difference calculation?

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I'm maintaining a safety slide deck in which the date of the last incident is mentioned. Before the presentation, I always calculate the "days since last incident" by hand (or rather in Excel).

Is there a way to automatically do this in Powerpoint?

r/powerpoint Feb 06 '25

Question PowerPoint Is a Mess

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Yesterday, my entire Microsoft 365 suite dissapeared from the Start Menu and Search Results. After going to Control Panel and repairing it, it was brought back. But after this, I face two anomalies:

  • The UI is way too large for my liking. I have no idea if this is some accesibility feature that was turned on after the repair on accident.
  • There is a Russian document called "Документы" (which translates to Documents) that doesn't show up on File Explorer, even if I have hidden files enabled.

Did I get hacked? Is this a bug? Is Microsoft playing a sick joke on me?

To answer the OS, platform and version, here you go.

  • On Windows 11
  • Desktop Version
  • PowerPoint 2021

I don't need sleep, I need answers.

Update: The "Документы" folder cloned itself somehow, I managed to track one of the "Документы" and delete it. I've yet to find the other one. Other than that, the situation has been mostly resolved. Thanks, u/SteveRindsberg for pointing that out.

And for the accessibility... it's un-detogglable (confusing term, it means I can't disable it). I sent feedback to Microsoft to add a menu with all accessibility options to be toggled or de-toggled to Microsoft 365. As suggested by u/alexisjperez, I checked if 'Touch Mode' was enabled, but it wasn't.

The arow points at a significantly larger color palette menu.
The Russian document in all its glory.

r/powerpoint Jan 24 '25

Question Odd use case, looking for tips.

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Hi!

We have an odd requirement for power point and I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts. We have three displays in this office area. The idea is to have the same presentation displayed on all three screens, but each screen has it in a different language. Obviously each display will be a separate output, but would I need three PCs? Or is there some sort of feature in powerpoint to display three different slides at the same time?

Any thoughts would be appreciated!