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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you have seen how to use Presenter View and leverage many of its great tools to improve your presentation delivery, and how to make your presentations more accessible and inclusive by using subtitles.

Using Presenter View to help you reduce your fear of forgetting what to say is a great way to improve your presentation delivery. Just make sure that you don’t put very long scripts in the notes. Doing so might increase your stress level because you have to scroll through the notes, or may even make your eyes focus on your computer instead of on your audience. Also, if you have a long script, reading it might make you sound unprepared and unnatural. The best advice I can give you is to aim to reduce your notes to very short sentences or keywords so that they are a reminder of the points you have to discuss.

As wonderful as I think Presenter View can be, if you think it will solve all your delivery problems, you are wrong! No tool can ever replace...