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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 the Handout Master for a simple document

The Handout Master allows you to create a branded look for your simple document needs. Although many users don’t know about that specific master, many have used its view when printing handouts that have six slide thumbnails per page for their audience. Let's see how you can format it so your printouts or .pdf files will be branded and your audience sees your company information on each page.

To access the Handout Master, you need to use the View tab (1) and choose Handout Master (2) (Figure 4.1):

Figure 4.1 – Accessing Handout Master

Figure 4.1 – Accessing Handout Master

Tip

Whenever you are unsure about what a button will do, take time to read the tooltip provided each time you hover over one so you will get a brief description, such as the one provided in Figure 4.1 for the Handout Master view.

You then get the Handout Master view tab where you will be able to make all the necessary formatting changes (Figure...