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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 custom shows

Custom shows are a way to create and present a subset of a larger presentation file. In the past, I have used them to create a complex marketing dashboard for salespeople or even a training dashboard allowing me to choose content according to a specific topic or duration.

Let’s continue with the same example used previously, except that now the presentation file has more slides for each presenter. We will want to create one custom show per presenter, and then change the hyperlink on our menu slide. Sections were created to make it easier to see the number of slides per speaker in the screenshot (Figure 9.8):

Figure 9.8 – Presentation in Slide Sorter view with four sections of speaker slides

Figure 9.8 – Presentation in Slide Sorter view with four sections of speaker slides

To create custom shows, you need to go to the Slide Show tab (1) and click on the Custom Slide Show button (2) to access the Custom Shows… feature (3) (Figure 9.9):

Figure 9.9 – Accessing Custom Shows… from the Slide Show tab

Figure 9.9 – Accessing...