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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)

Exporting your document as a .pdf file

Even though the PDF export feature has been available for many years within Office applications, many users still overlook some settings that might help them produce various types of PDF documents.

You first need to go to the Backstage view using the File tab. From there, you can use the Save a Copy (cloud file) or Save as function (local file), or use the Export function to start creating a PDF document from a PowerPoint file (Figure 4.17):

Figure 4.17 – Creating a PDF from a PowerPoint file

Figure 4.17 – Creating a PDF from a PowerPoint file

  1. You can use the Save a Copy command and select PDF in the file type drop-down list.
  2. There is also the possibility to use the Export command, then the Create PDF/XPS Document option.
  3. In both cases, you might see an Investigate Accessibility button if any elements are missing to create an accessible PDF.
  4. When you click on the Save button while in the Save a Copy section, it automatically creates the...