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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 other tools

We will not necessarily go through all the remaining tools and settings available in Presentation View. Instead, we will focus on Zoom into the slide (1), Black or unblack slide show (2), and Click to add notes (3) while you are presenting (Figure 12.8):

Figure 12.8 – Extra useful tools in Presenter View

Figure 12.8 – Extra useful tools in Presenter View

If you want the audience to have a closer look at a specific element on your slide, using the Zoom into the slide feature (1) is an excellent way to do it (Figure 12.9):

Figure 12.9 – The Zooming into the slide feature in Presenter View

Figure 12.9 – The Zooming into the slide feature in Presenter View

After clicking on the magnifying glass icon (1), it is now highlighted to show it is selected (2), and the slide preview is zoomed in (3), showing a hand instead of the regular mouse cursor. If you left-click your mouse and maintain it, you can drag the image to move the zooming effect around your slide. When you want to go back to your whole slide view, simply...