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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 formatting videos

Inserting videos into your presentations can sound like a daunting task, the main reason usually being that many users feel lost with all the formats available and compatibility issues with the PowerPoint version they are using. So, let’s start by defining the supported file formats.

Supported video file formats

There used to be so many variables to choosing a video file format in PowerPoint! The supported file format was highly dependent on the Microsoft Office version installed, if we were using Windows or Mac, which version of the operating system was installed, and which device the presentation would be viewed on. The good news is that we can reduce the complexity of that list with modern versions of PowerPoint (2016, 2019, 2021) and Office 365 (O365).

Warning

If you are still using Office 2010, this version stopped being supported in October 2020, opening up your computer to major security risks. And if you are still using Office...