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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)

Rehearsing timings and creating a recorded practice run

If you struggle to keep on topic for some of your slides, making you run over time for most of your presentations, you should consider practicing with the Rehearse Timings feature (1) available in the Slide Show tab (2) (Figure 11.7):

Figure 11.7 – Starting and using Rehearse Timings

Figure 11.7 – Starting and using Rehearse Timings

When you click on Rehearse Timings, it starts your presentation in Slide Show mode (2) and records how much time you spend on each slide. You will see the small Recording tool (3) in the upper-left corner of the screen. You can click through your slides with your mouse, use your keyboard, or click on the small arrow in the Recording tool (4). If you need to stop, just click the Pause button (5) in the toolbar.

The first timer (6) shows you how much time you have spent on a slide. If you need to repeat the recording, you can click on the small Repeat arrow (7). The second timer (8) shows you how long you have...