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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)

Building Flexibility and Interactivity into Your Presentations

Creating well-planned visuals is a great thing but being able to build flexible content that helps you interact with your audience is even better, for you and your audience! Yes—it does take some more planning, but the rewards can be huge. It can help you feel more confident, knowing that you always have the right visual to pull up to answer questions, and it helps keep your audience engaged because they realize they can ask you to go back to a topic.

Building bigger presentations that contain flexible elements might even allow you to reuse more content instead of recreating new presentations all the time. You will be the judge after reading through the topics of this chapter, where we will discuss the following:

  • Using navigation elements in a presentation
  • Creating custom shows
  • Using the Zoom feature to navigate your content
  • Creating triggered menus