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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 Q&A and Polls to create more interactions

Virtual presentations require more interaction to keep your audience engaged. The reason is simple: you are competing with emails, news feeds, text messages, and social media so you absolutely need to find ways to grab everyone’s attention.

When using Microsoft Teams, you have nice tools that can help you and we will discuss two of them in the following sections.

Using Q&A

Q&A is a recent addition to Teams meetings allowing you to separate questions and important discussions from the regular chat pane. To have Q&A (1) available in your meeting toolbar, you first need to make sure it is turned on in your meeting’s options by clicking More () (2) | Meeting options (3) to open the Meeting options pane (4). Make sure to look at the bottom of the pane for Enable Q&A (5) to check that the toggle is on (Figure 13.8):

Figure 13.8 – Checking meeting options to enable Q&A

Figure 13.8 – Checking meeting options to...