versus the serial one-slide-at-a-time productions that conventional programs such a PowerPoint allow. The latest version of Prezi adds two new features: 3D backgrounds and fade-in animations.

Did you know in PowerPoint, you can use videos taken from your photo cameras and the internet as background for your presentation, whether as an intro in the middle of the presentation or as an outro?

One way to generate impressive visuals in your next PowerPoint presentation is to combine the program's 3D Models tool with the Morph transition effect. Although this sounds complicated ...

Meanwhile, the new Magic Selection tool is able to crop out the background from ... the online community library of 3D models used to source content for a PowerPoint presentation.

Launch Microsoft PowerPoint, and open the PPTX file for which you want to use a GIF as the background. Select the appropriate slide. Click the "Design" tab, and locate the "Background" section.