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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)

Using the Cameo feature

We must keep finding new ways to engage our audiences, and using the Cameo feature could be interesting in some situations. At the time this book was written, it was available in the desktop version of PowerPoint with an M365 license, and in the preview version of PowerPoint Live in Teams. In short, Cameo allows you to embed a live camera feed into your slides. I see the value of adding presenter proximity when presenting virtually, or in a large venue where some people in the audience might not see you clearly. It could also be used to focus a camera on a sign language interpreter, which is a great way to be more accessible and inclusive.

To access the feature, you need to click on the Insert tab (1) and go to the far right of the ribbon to click on the Cameo button (2). It automatically adds a camera object (3) in the lower-right corner of the slide and might also open the Designer pane (4) to suggest design ideas that include a camera feed (Figure 7.20...