The Presenter's Guide to Nailing Your Next PowerPoint Have a presentation coming up that involves PowerPoint slides? Creating the content and design for a new presentation can be a daunting task. Between outlining, deciding on a design, filling it out, and finalizing the details, it's not uncommon for a few questions to pop up. Where's the best place to start? Are some steps better to take before others? How can you make sure you aren't missing anything? And how on earth do you master those essential -- yet slightly technical -- design tricks that can take a presentation from good to great?