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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)

Making your presentation more accessible with live subtitles

If you are an M365 user, you can use a good microphone connected to your computer and make sure to have access to an internet connection to deliver your presentation. You should also consider using live subtitles to make your presentation easier to understand for your audience.

While in Presenter View, you can click on Toggle Subtitles (1) to start the feature. In the slide preview, your words will be captured and then added under your slide (2) (Figure 12.12):

Figure 12.12 – Using subtitles during your presentation

Figure 12.12 – Using subtitles during your presentation

You can decide to show subtitles in your spoken language or make them available in another language. All you have to do is click on More slide show options (3) and then on Subtitle Settings (4). The first two options (5), Bottom (Overlaid) and Top (Overlaid), will add captions at the bottom or top of your slides respectively on a semi-transparent shape. I suggest you avoid...