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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)

Inserting and modifying a map

When I say you need to start thinking visually when creating presentations, it means to stop being on autopilot when creating your content. Any content you need to deliver needs to be examined to seek visual ways to create it. Let’s look at an example of content that can be greatly improved with one of PowerPoint’s features (Office 365 (O365) only): inserting a map. For the slide example in Figure 6.1, I created a table with data showing four Canadian provinces that should have more than 6 million people by 2043:

Figure 6.1 – Table listing four Canadian provinces with their population by 2043

Figure 6.1 – Table listing four Canadian provinces with their population by 2043

It is not a bad slide per se, but it does lack visual appeal. Instead, we can leverage PowerPoint’s map feature so that we can make each province visible within Canada, as in Figure 6.2:

Figure 6.2 – Population information shown in a map of Canada

Figure 6.2 – Population information shown in a map of Canada

As you can see, it adds...