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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)

Leveraging Speaker Coach to help you practice your talk

The Speaker Coach feature is part of Microsoft’s cloud-enhanced features, which means you need to be connected to the internet for it to work. It was first launched in PowerPoint for the web and is now also available in the desktop version if you have an M365 license. While in the free preview stage, anyone using a Microsoft account (for example, an outlook.com, hotmail.com, live.com, or msn.com email) without an M365 subscription can access it in PowerPoint for the web.

Another important element, at the time this book is being written, is that Speaker Coach only understands English and is available only when your Office user interface is also in English. If you don’t know how to change the language of your user interface, have a look at the Microsoft support article in the Further reading section.

Microsoft always tests Speaker Coach enhancements in the web version first, adding them to the desktop version...