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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 new shapes with Edit Points

There are many default shapes available in PowerPoint, but it does not mean they will always fit your needs. This is when the Edit Points tool can come to your rescue! Even though it has been available for over 20 years, many users are still unaware it exists. There are two ways of accessing Edit Points:

  • The first way to access Edit Points is to select a shape (1), click on the Shape Format tab, and go to Edit Shape | Edit Points (Figure 6.18):
Figure 6.18 – Accessing Edit Points through the Shape Format tab

Figure 6.18 – Accessing Edit Points through the Shape Format tab

  • The second way is by right-clicking on a shape and clicking on Edit Points (Figure 6.19):
Figure 6.19 – Accessing Edit Points with a right-click on the shape

Figure 6.19 – Accessing Edit Points with a right-click on the shape

Whichever method you choose, your shape will now show black dots where two line segments meet or where a curve ends, depending on the shape you have on your slide. Those dots are called vertexes...