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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed PowerPoint’s Designer features, which can help you create more visually impactful slides quickly. You can now leverage the feature to create great layouts for slides that include many images, change bulleted lists to something more visually appealing, start a new presentation and leverage Designer theme ideas, and bring perspective to your large numbers.

Unless you don’t already have a Microsoft 365 subscription, there is no reason to create boring slides with text only, or blank PowerPoint presentations with no design, because you feel like you are not creative, or are design-challenged. But I do need to warn you of one thing: if you skip all the planning steps and just add content that lacks structure, using any of Designer’s design ideas will just make your slides look good, and not necessarily help have a clear message or make your presentation more impactful.

In the next chapter, we will be discussing how you can...