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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

This chapter was all about using tools in Microsoft Teams to help you deliver better virtual presentations. We discussed how PowerPoint Live can help you manage your presentation and your meeting in the same window. We also learned about a few features that can help you keep your attendees engaged, such as breakout rooms, Q&A, and Polls. We finally discussed how to improve your camera, lighting, and microphone setup, sharing quick tips you can easily try.

My wish is that you realize that virtual presentations need as much practice as the ones you do in meeting rooms or large venues. In my opinion, they are even more complex to manage because often you have to learn more about the features that will help you keep people engaged, and handle technology problems by yourself. Make sure you continue learning about the virtual tools you can use because remote presentations will certainly not disappear.