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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 Notes Master for a complete handout

The Notes Master allows you to create a branded look for documents that need an image of the slide and notes beneath it. The notes are captured from the notes pane beneath each slide in the Normal view. Most of the time, notes are used for the presenter, but that does not mean they cannot be used for your audience. There are some workarounds that allow you to create a file that can contain notes for the presenter and notes for the handout, but let’s start by going through the changes you should make in the Notes Master.

To access the Notes Master, you need to use the View tab and choose Notes Master (Figure 4.6):

Figure 4.6 – Accessing Notes Master

Figure 4.6 – Accessing Notes Master

You then get the Notes Master view, from which you will be able to make all the necessary changes to customize your document’s look (Figure 4.7):

Figure 4.7 – Notes Master view

Figure 4.7 – Notes Master view

  1. In the Page Setup...