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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)

Improving the camera, lighting, and microphone setup

My goal with this section is not to cover all the greatest and latest equipment available on the market, but to share some features and tips that can help you even when you don’t have access to fancy gear.

Checking Microsoft Teams device settings

The first place to start is by showing you hidden device settings available in Microsoft Teams. You first need to click on More () (1) | Device settings (2), to access the Device settings pane (3) (Figure 13.16):

Figure 13.16 – Accessing Device settings in Teams

Figure 13.16 – Accessing Device settings in Teams

Scroll down to the Noise suppression section (4). If you were not aware of its existence, it is an AI-based feature analyzing background noises. Here is a description of each setting:

  • Auto (default) (5/6): Teams monitors your background noise and turns suppression up or down to remove noise not recognized as your voice. Do you need to search for a piece of paper on...