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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)

Configuring standard layouts

We already mentioned that in the Slide Master view, the Slide Master is the larger thumbnail and the smaller ones that follow are the layouts. Another element you need to be aware of is the highlighted thumbnail (1), which shows you the layout of the slide you were on when you opened the Slide Master feature (Figure 3.14). You can hover over any thumbnail to show a tooltip (2) that tells you on what slide(s) the layout is being used.

Figure 3.14 – The Slide Master view showing the layout applied to your current slide

Figure 3.14 – The Slide Master view showing the layout applied to your current slide

Before making changes to any of the layouts, you should make title and content placeholders formatting changes and position adjustments you want to see applied in all of the layouts in the slide master (1), as shown in the first thumbnail in the view (Figure 3.15). Doing so replicates the changes to the layouts. I have created an example where I changed the font color and size and modified the vertical...