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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)

Adding and Modifying Multimedia Elements

In terms of visual content creation, so far, we have learned about some of PowerPoint’s features that leverage AI and others that help us use graphical elements instead of text and bullet points. It is now time to level up your presentation game even more by learning how to include multimedia elements.

Adding multimedia elements will help make your presentations more impactful by providing content variety while making some topics easier to learn about via short videos rather than long text explanations.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Inserting and formatting videos
  • Inserting and formatting audio
  • Using the Cameo feature
  • Inserting a screenshot or screen recording for a demo
  • Creating a video file or GIF from a presentation