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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)

Making your presentations accessible

Making documents and presentations more accessible is making sure users with a disability can access your content with the various devices they can use, such as screen readers. Whether your country has laws or official guidelines or not, there is no reason to shy away from making your documents and presentations accessible because Microsoft has included a great feature to help you do it: Accessibility Checker. This feature was made available as far back as Office 2010, although it was less user-friendly at the time. If you are using any of the more modern versions (Office 2016, Office 2019, Office 2021, or Office for M365), you will get a much nicer interface that helps you track where are the accessibility problems and how to solve them.

To display the Accessibility pane in your presentation, you can click on Accessibility in the status bar (1) to open the Accessibility pane and tab (2) (Figure 4.14):

Figure 4.14 – The Accessibility pane in PowerPoint

Figure 4.14 ...