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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 a video file or GIF from a presentation

After creating your presentation, it might be a good idea to reuse it in a video format that is easy to view on many platforms while making it more difficult to reuse parts of your content. It could also be done so that you have a video clip to insert back into a presentation. As you can see, the possibilities are endless, and it is easy to create.

Exporting a presentation as a video

When you are done creating your presentation, or the small set of slides that you need to have a video for, you need to click on the File tab to view what is called the Backstage view (Figure 7.25):

Figure 7.25 – PowerPoint’s Backstage view to create videos

Figure 7.25 – PowerPoint’s Backstage view to create videos

  • First, click on the Export menu (1) on the left so that you have access to the Export pane (2).
  • Then, click on Create a Video (3) to access the settings. The export process will keep everything you have included in your presentations. If you are...