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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

In this chapter, we discussed layouts and placeholders so that you would understand their role in the Slide Master. We also covered how to choose theme fonts and colors, and how to format your standard layouts and create new ones.

Of course, many more topics could have been included in this chapter if the main goal had been the creation of a robust corporate template. With what you have learned, you will be able to have a decent template to work from and save yourself a lot of time creating your slides afterward. Even if you have a feeling that it will take you too much time, I can guarantee you that it is all worth it. You will be able to reuse slides and create new presentations very quickly the second time around.

In the next chapter, you will be learning about the document and notes masters so you can make your PowerPoint file serve more than one purpose without overcrowding your slides. We will also explore the various ways you can print or create PDFs from your...