5 PowerPoint tips and tricks. Number one. Navigate to PowerPoint.new in your web browser and you can use PowerPoint on the web entirely for free. Number two. Go up to insert and then get add-ins and search for QR code. Select this add-in and you can insert QR codes directly onto your slides. Number three. Go up to the Record tab and then select screen recording. Select the area of your screen that you want to record, and this inserts the recording onto your slide. As a bonus, you can right click on it and save it as an mp4. Number four. Right click on an object, and you can move it up or down in the layers, but even better, go up to picture format, then selection pane, and you can choose the specific layer. Number five. Select an image and then go up to picture format. All the way over on the left-hand side, click on remove background. You can select the areas to keep and to remove. It works surprisingly well.