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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 the display and navigation tools

When you start your slide show with Presenter View, you might need to change how it is displayed, so we will first have a look at the display tools (Figure 12.4):

Figure 12.4 – Using the display tools in Presenter View

Figure 12.4 – Using the display tools in Presenter View

If you need to look for something in another window on your computer while in a slide show, you will quickly realize you don’t see your taskbar when using Presenter View, so using the SHOW TASKBAR tool (1) could be helpful. It works like a toggle that you click to show or hide your taskbar.

The DISPLAY SETTINGS tool (2) allows you to change the device on which you want Presenter View displayed by using the Swap Presenter View and Slide Show setting (3). You might have a need for it if you realize the display is not right when starting your presentation on a computer that is not yours. I have used it many times during training sessions so that people would see Presenter View on a big...