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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)

Viewing and adapting Slide Show options

Many users are not aware of all the PowerPoint options they have control over, and there are a few specific to presentation delivery. To access those options, you need to go to File | Options | Advanced (1) and scroll down to the Slide Show section (2) (Figure 11.1):

Figure 11.1 – Advanced Slide Show options in PowerPoint

Figure 11.1 – Advanced Slide Show options in PowerPoint

  • All options are turned on by default, so you might want to adapt what you want to make available according to how you plan to deliver your presentation.
  • The Show menu on right mouse click option (3) can be turned off by unchecking the box if you want to avoid getting the contextual menu by clicking the right mouse button by mistake. It is not necessarily bad, but I do think using Presenter View features—the topic of the next chapter—is much better.
  • The Show popup toolbar option (4) is related to the semi-transparent toolbar that can be seen in the bottom-left corner...