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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)

Using PowerPoint’s Document Masters for Accessible Handouts and Notes

We previously stated that PowerPoint’s Slide Master was often overlooked by users, but I must say that the Handout Master and Notes Master are features that are mostly unknown to many users. This is unfortunate because most of the time, they allow users to make their PowerPoint files work harder in much less time than having to create separate files for their presentation and document needs.

PowerPoint’s two document masters work in a similar way to the Slide Master. They allow you to determine the overall look of documents you might want to produce for your audience, so you are on brand while avoiding the obligation to create Word documents.

Again, our goal is to help you format the Handout Master and Notes Master so you can quickly produce documents from your presentation file. This means there will be no need to create multiple files before your next presentation. Your PowerPoint file...