In PowerPoint 2007 -- and PowerPoint 2010 -- the animation effects are all located on the Animation tab in the Office ribbon. To make text fly in, you simply need to select the text and choose "Fly In ...

If you need to insert curved text in PowerPoint, you can take the help of WordArt functionality. It will allow you to curve the text in any slide and you can insert as many curved texts as you want.

PowerPoint has a great set of special effects, graphics, animations, and template themes. There’s just one problem: Everybody else has the same effects, animations, and template themes that you have.

Unless you’re presenting a cure for insomnia, you want your PowerPoint slides to engage your audience without distracting them from the presenter (you). Too much text invites people to read rather ...