What this book covers
Chapter 1, Analyzing Your Audience and Presentation Delivery Needs, introduces questions that will help you plan and structure your presentation content.
Chapter 2, Using Industry Best Practices to Design Better Visuals, helps you learn about important industry best practices to improve your design.
Chapter 3, Leveraging PowerPoint’s Slide Master for Design, talks about how the Slide Master can be used as a design automation tool.
Chapter 4, Using PowerPoint’s Document Masters for Handouts and Notes, covers how to leverage masters, which will help you make your presentation files serve more than one purpose and still be efficient and impactful.
Chapter 5, Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Your Visuals, helps you understand how the Designer feature can save you some design time.
Chapter 6, Adding and Modifying Visual Elements, discusses how to use graphical elements and customize them to replace text and bullet points.
Chapter 7, Adding and Modifying Multimedia Elements, goes into how to improve your content by using and formatting audio and video elements.
Chapter 8, Working with Transitions and Animations, focuses on generating movement with purpose, which will improve the pace of your content and the audience’s understanding.
Chapter 9, Building Flexibility and Interactivity in Your Presentations, explains how to engage your audience by using navigation elements to adapt to their needs or show them special content.
Chapter 10, Using PowerPoint Third-Party Add-Ins, brings in a few ways to boost your content creation productivity and presentation management possibilities.
Chapter 11, Practicing Your Presentation Delivery, points out some of PowerPoint’s native tools that will help you practice your presentations so that you have a memorable effect on your audience.
Chapter 12, Using Presenter View, puts forward how this feature and its many tools can help you deliver more engaging presentations and have more control.
Chapter 13, Using PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams, has been included to help virtual presenters who use Teams discover many features that will help encourage engagement.