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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 how to create more visually appealing elements on your slides by adding maps and using and customizing SmartArt. We also learned how to create our own shapes with Edit Points and Merge Shapes, and customize the creative content supplied by Microsoft in the Stock Images library.

You now have enough knowledge about the tools and features to start creating your own visual content or adapting any default elements supplied in PowerPoint. Yes—there will be times when you will feel overwhelmed by the possibilities. After all, our brains don’t have a creative switch that we can flip on or off!

Just give yourself time to get more comfortable with the tools, and don’t feel as though you need to change all your visuals at once. Here is a challenge for your next presentation: plan more design time before your event and set the goal of using one technique you learned in this chapter. As you get more familiar with the tools and features...