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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)

PowerPoint Live and Interactive Features in Microsoft Teams

If you present mostly virtually, you might run into challenges while trying to figure out the best way to share your PowerPoint presentation. Yes, you could simply share your whole screen and use Presenter View, as discussed in the previous chapter. But then you might have a hard time seeing your meeting controls, especially if you are working with only one monitor.

With virtual presentations being widely used and, I’m quite sure, here to stay, I wanted to include a chapter on leveraging Microsoft Teams’ PowerPoint Live, and other features that help you create more interactions and engagement. Why Teams and not another virtual meeting tool? Simply because it is the application I have been using and have seen evolve since its introduction in 2017, and its ability to leverage many more features included in Microsoft 365.

To help you take your presentations to a new level using PowerPoint Live within Teams...