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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)

Using Presenter View

I often hear from presenters that they want to have all their text on slides because they fear forgetting what to say. Lack of practice is often a problem, but some presenters fear public speaking so much that they need to have more support when using mostly visual slides.

That is why speakers need to learn how to leverage technology to help them ease their fears. PowerPoint has been providing Presenter View for some time now, helping presenters see their notes while the audience sees only their slides. Now is the time to learn how to leverage all its power with the help of the topics discussed in this chapter:

  • Defining and starting Presenter View
  • Using the display and navigation tools
  • Using the annotation tools
  • Using other tools
  • Making your presentation more accessible with live subtitles