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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)

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

Symbols

.pdf file

document, exporting as 86-89

A

Accessibility Checker 81

action buttons

navigating with 200, 201

advanced animation sequences

animations, adding to objects 190-192

animations basics, reviewing with Animation Pane 187, 188

creating 189, 190

existing animations, modifying 189, 190

using 186, 187

Align group 224-227

animated GIF

creating, from presentation 169, 170

annotation tools

using 275, 277

Artificial Intelligence (AI) 83, 91

audio

formatting 159, 160

formatting, with Trim Audio tool 162

inserting 157-159

playback settings, changing 160, 161

supported audio file formats, defining 157

automatic transitions 262

B

Backstage view 168, 169

Billion Dollar Graphics 238

Build-a-Graphic, using 239

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