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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)

Creating great image layouts with Designer

For as long as I can remember, I have heard users complaining about not knowing where to start when they were tasked to create presentations. Even if I have explained a simple process to plan your content, it does not mean you will find it easy to create your visuals. That is when using the latest version of PowerPoint with the Designer feature will be an advantage.

Setting up Designer

Before we dive into the great design ideas we might get when adding images to slides, let’s make sure Designer is active in your application. Being part of Microsoft’s connected services that leverage AI while being connected to the internet, you might want to check some of PowerPoint’s options. You need to access the File | Options | General options and have a look at the Privacy Settings (1) and PowerPoint Designer (2) sections (see Figure 5.1).

In the PowerPoint Designer section, there are two checkboxes (as of Version 2209,...