Microsoft PowerPoint best practices, tips, and techniques : an indispensable guide to mastering PowerPoint's advanced tools to create engaging presentations / Chantal Bossé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bossé, Chantal, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft PowerPoint (Computer file).

Presentation graphics software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt Publishing, [2023]

Biography/History:

Bosse Chantal: Chantal Bosse has worked in instructional design and training for over 25 years and is the founder of CHABOS Inc. , specializing in M365 training and high-stakes presentation design and coaching. She has been a Microsoft PowerPoint, M365 Apps & Services Most Valued Professional (MVP) since 2013 and has helped over 250, 000 international French-speaking learners on LinkedIn Learning with her courses on PowerPoint, Teams, and communication. She thrives on helping people understand and leverage technology to help them work efficiently and deliver engaging and impactful presentations.

Summary:

Want to become a PowerPoint Pro? Written by a PowerPoint expert and Microsoft MVP, this book helps you create visually appealing PowerPoint presentations using advanced tools, features, and expert techniques for better impact Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Learn how to plan your content and prepare your PowerPoint masters Create beautiful content using PowerPoint features and add-ins Deliver impressive presentations by leveraging PowerPoint's advanced delivery tools Book Description 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. What you will learn Plan your PowerPoint presentation content and know your audience Prepare PowerPoint masters to speed up the development process and maintain consistency Add and modify visual and multimedia elements Use transitions and animations efficiently Build flexibility and interactivity into your presentations Practice your delivery with Presenter Coach Leverage Presenter View during delivery to increase your confidence Use PowerPoint Live in Teams for easy-to-manage remote presentations Who this book is for If you are a business professional looking for best practices for presentations and are interested in the features PowerPoint has to offer to help you create and deliver impactful presentations, this book is for you. No formal presentation design knowledge is needed, but you do need to know PowerPoint's basic tools and functions such as starting and saving files, adding, copying, pasting, or moving slides. A sound understanding of cloud storage and the use of Office 365 is also needed.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Analyzing Your Audience and Presentation Delivery Needs

10 questions to help you plan your presentation

Question 1 - what is my presentation's goal?

Question 2 - what is at stake?

Question 3 - what is my main message?

Question 4 - what story can help the audience understand the message?

Question 5 - who is my target audience?

Question 6 - what is the duration of my presentation?

Question 7 - what type of venue will I present in?

Question 8 - what type of presenter am I?

Question 9 - what questions might be asked by the audience?

Question 10 - what content do I already have available?

Analyzing and sorting your content

What is the best way to start?

Sorting the content

Structuring and developing your message

The three-part model

Telling your story

Summary

Further reading

Chapter 2: Using Industry Best Practices to Design Better Visuals

Technical requirements

Choosing fonts

Which font category should you use?

Font compatibility issues

Checklist to help you review font choices

Using the right font size

Learning about contrast

Choosing colors wisely

Decluttering your slide contents

Making the look and feel of your slides consistent

Chapter 3: Leveraging PowerPoint's Slide Master for Design

Understanding layouts and placeholders

Layouts

Placeholders

Accessing layouts and placeholders through a slide master

Choosing fonts and colors

Selecting the color palette

How to customize a color palette

Selecting title and body fonts

Configuring standard layouts

Try it yourself

Changes you can make and should avoid

Adding custom layouts.

Reordering your slide layouts

Renaming your template to avoid Office Theme labeling

Using the Hide Background Graphics feature

Using a Microsoft stock image with a picture placeholder

Retrieving missing footer placeholders

Using the lock feature for placeholders or objects

Chapter 4: Using PowerPoint's Document Masters for Accessible Handouts and Notes

Configuring the Handout Master for a simple document

Adding graphic elements to your Handout Master

Adding your header and footer content

Configuring the Notes Master for a complete handout

Customizing your Notes Master

Adapting your presentation file for a handout and delivery notes

Making your presentations accessible

Printing your documents

Troubleshooting text contrast in grayscale

Exporting your document as a .pdf file

Chapter 5: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Your Visuals

Creating great image layouts with Designer

Setting up Designer

Using Designer with images

Using Designer to create visual lists and timelines

Design ideas from a list

Design ideas from dates

Using Designer ideas to start a presentation theme from scratch

Bringing perspective to your data with Designer

Chapter 6: Adding and Modifying Visual Elements

Inserting and modifying a map

Converting bullet points into SmartArt

Creating new shapes with Edit Points

Creating new shapes with the merging tools

Breaking apart a Venn diagram

Creating special text

Using and customizing stock images and other graphics

Using Picture Format tools

Customizing icons or illustrations

Chapter 7: Adding and Modifying Multimedia Elements.

Technical requirements

Inserting and formatting videos

Supported video file formats

Inserting video files

Formatting video files

Inserting and formatting audio

Supported audio file formats

Inserting audio files

Formatting audio files

Using the Cameo feature

Inserting a screenshot or screen recording for a demo

Creating a video file or GIF from a presentation

Exporting a presentation as a video

Creating an animated GIF

Chapter 8: Working with Transitions and Animations

Using slide transitions wisely

Understanding transition basics

Viewing slide transitions

Adjusting the Timing options

Leveraging the Morph transition

Using Morph Effect Options

Creating a moving timeline with Morph

Creating movement and a zooming effect with Morph

Morphing an object into another using the !! naming scheme

Using advanced animation sequences

Reviewing animations basics with the Animation Pane option

Modifying existing animations and creating an advanced sequence

Adding new animations to objects already animated

Using triggers for on-demand animations

Using triggers with shapes and images

Using triggers with a video bookmark

Chapter 9: Building Flexibility and Interactivity into Your Presentations

Using navigation elements in a presentation

Navigating with action buttons

Creating your navigation buttons

Using other slide objects for navigation

Creating custom shows

Using the Zoom feature to navigate your content

Creating a summary zoom

Inserting a section zoom

Inserting a slide zoom

Creating triggered menus

Chapter 10: Using PowerPoint Third-Party Add-Ins

Technical requirements.

BrightCarbon

Using BrightSlide (for free)

Using BrandIn (paid)

Neuxpower

Using Neuxpower's compression tools

Using Slidewise (paid)

Billion Dollar Graphics

Using Build-a-Graphic (paid)

PPTools

Using THOR (free)

Using PPTMerge (paid)

Chapter 11: Practicing Your Presentation Delivery

Viewing and adapting Slide Show options

Leveraging Speaker Coach to help you practice your talk

Starting Speaker Coach

Analyzing your rehearsal report

Rehearsing timings and creating a recorded practice run

Using the new Record feature to practice

Chapter 12: Using Presenter View

Defining and starting Presenter View

Using the display and navigation tools

Using the annotation tools

Using other tools

Making your presentation more accessible with live subtitles

Chapter 13: PowerPoint Live and Interactive Features in Microsoft Teams

Getting started with and using PowerPoint Live

Creating and using breakout rooms

Using Q&amp

A and Polls to create more interactions

A

Using Polls in a meeting

Improving the camera, lighting, and microphone setup

Checking Microsoft Teams device settings

Tips to help you improve how you look and sound

Conclusion

Index

Other Books You May Enjoy.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781839216602

1839216603

OCLC:

1369529648