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Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques

By : Chantal Bossé
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Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques

By: Chantal Bossé

Overview of this book

Giving great business presentations that stand out can mean the difference between getting and losing out on an important promotion, a critical client deal, or a grant. To start creating PowerPoint presentations that showcase your ideas in the best light possible, you’ll need more than attractive templates; you'll need to leverage PowerPoint's full range of tools and features. This is where this PowerPoint book comes in, leading you through the steps that will help you plan, create, and deliver more impactful and professional-looking presentations. The book is designed in a way to take you through planning your content efficiently and confidently preparing PowerPoint masters. After you’ve gotten to grips with the basics, you’ll find out how to create visually appealing content using the application’s lesser known, more advanced features, including useful third-party add-ins. The concluding chapters will equip you with PowerPoint’s advanced delivery tools, which will enable you to deliver memorable presentations. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to confidently choose processes to create and deliver impactful presentations more efficiently.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Practicing Your Presentation Delivery

You learned how to plan and structure your content in the first part of this book. Then, we discussed how to create better visuals with tools and functions available in PowerPoint or with third-party add-ins. We are now entering the delivery part.

Creating a memorable experience for your audience requires much more than planning the content and creating professional visuals. You need to practice.

Luckily, the PowerPoint development team at Microsoft has been adding tools to help presenters with their delivery in the past years. Here are the topics that will be covered in this chapter:

  • Viewing and adapting Slide Show options
  • Leveraging Speaker Coach to help you practice your talk
  • Rehearsing timings and creating a recorded practice run
  • Using the new Record feature to practice