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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)

Printing your documents

You might be wondering why I would cover how to print documents, especially since most users have been doing so for a very long time. Even though everyone knows how they can print from the File | Print options, or Ctrl + P, many have overlooked some nice features hidden in PowerPoint’s printing options that you should know about. Those are the ones I will cover in this section.

When you are in the Print options view (Figure 4.15), you can change so much more than the number of copies and the printer properties:

Figure 4.15 – PowerPoint’s Print options view

Figure 4.15 – PowerPoint’s Print options view

Let’s review important settings that you might have missed all those years:

  1. Selecting what you need to print might be something you are aware of already, but when we look at the bottom part of that drop-down list, we have two hidden gems. The first one is the possibility to print specific sections in your presentation. If you have put in...