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Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques

By : Chantal Bossé
Book Image

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 advanced animation sequences

Even though the goal of this section is to discuss more advanced animations, let’s start with a short review of the Animations tab (1) (Figure 8.11):

Figure 8.11 – Review of the Animations tab

Figure 8.11 – Review of the Animations tab

Just as we have seen for Transitions in the first section of this chapter, you can preview animations on a slide by using the Preview button (2) on the ribbon or by clicking on the star icon beside a slide thumbnail. Clicking on the More arrow (3) opens the animation gallery where you will find four categories of animations:

  • Entrance (4): This applies an effect when an object appears on the slide
  • Emphasis (5): This applies an effect to an object already on the slide
  • Exit (6): This applies an effect to an object we want to make disappear from the slide
  • Motion Paths (7): This moves an object already on the slide

At the bottom of the list, you have access to the complete list of effects and...