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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)

Defining and starting Presenter View

Presenter View is a PowerPoint feature allowing presenters to see their speaking notes and various tools on their computer while the audience only sees the slides in their presentation. We’ll see how easy it is to set it up and describe the various parts of the Presenter View window.

If you are using any version of PowerPoint from 2013 to the latest ones, as soon as you connect your computer to a second monitor, a projector, or a TV screen, PowerPoint should automatically set up Presenter View for you. When you are working with two monitors permanently connected to your computer, there might be times when you don’t want to use it, so let’s see where Presenter View can be turned on or off.

From the Slide Show tab (1), go to the Monitors group (2) and uncheck the Use Presenter View box (3) (Figure 12.1):

Figure 12.1 – Activating or deactivating Presenter View in the Slide Show tab

Figure 12.1 – Activating or deactivating Presenter View in the Slide Show tab

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