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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 add and modify multimedia elements such as videos, audio files, screenshots, and screen recordings, and export a file as a video or GIF that can then be inserted back into your presentation file.

You now have enough knowledge about the tools and features to start using more media elements in your presentations. When you have the feeling it will take a long time to create graphic elements to show a process or explain your idea clearly, stop and think about using other types of media that will help the audience understand your concept more quickly.

We have added one more building block for more engaging and impactful presentations. And remember that even though there is a lot of creative content available in Microsoft’s Stock Images library, you can always create your own with your own smartphone. But if your need is for a big marketing campaign, then it might be wiser to hire professionals to create relevant videos.

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