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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 annotation tools

When you click on the Pen and laser pointer tools button (1) below the slide preview in Presenter View, you get access to nice annotation tools that can be easily used directly on the slide preview thumbnail (Figure 12.7):

Figure 12.7 – Accessing the annotation tools in Presenter View

Figure 12.7 – Accessing the annotation tools in Presenter View

Selecting either the Laser Pointer, Pen, or Highlighter tool options (2) changes your mouse cursor to the selected type, such as Laser Pointer in my example (3), making it much easier for the audience to follow your cursor. If you are using Pen or Highlighter tool, you will be able to draw over your slide to bring attention to some content.

After changing your cursor to any of the tools, you can change its color (4) before using it on your slide. And if you drew anything on a slide, you can use Eraser and Erase All Ink on Slide (5) tools to remove part of your annotations or all of them at once.

Arrow Options (6) is helpful only if...