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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how to use slide transitions wisely, discussed how to leverage the Morph transition to create various types of movements between slides, and learned how to use the advanced animation timeline to create complex animation sequences or use triggers to control our animations.

Using animations can be extremely time-consuming if you don’t plan what you want to achieve before trying to create complex sequences. Just like most of the topics we have covered so far in this book, it will take more time the first few times you decide to create animations, unless you are only creating simple ones. Remember that there is nothing wrong with using simple animations, or no animations at all if you don’t need them.

I hope that the topics in this chapter will open up new possibilities for your next presentations, helping you decide whether they can help tell your story more efficiently while helping your audience remember your content for longer...