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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed how to adapt the various Slide Show options available in PowerPoint and how to leverage the Speaker Coach, Rehearse Timings, and Record features to help you rehearse your presentations and improve your delivery skills.

Of course, relying solely on technology to rehearse might not be enough depending on what is at stake. If your next presentation might win you a million-dollar project, start by allowing enough time to plan, create, and rehearse your presentation with the tools you have learned about in this chapter. Then, choose a few people you can count on to be good critics and deliver your presentation in front of them, more than once if possible. Technology can accomplish a lot, but human feedback is priceless!

In the next chapter, we will be discussing how to use Presenter View during your presentation delivery to help you increase your confidence and leverage tools to help you navigate your content even if no navigation elements...