Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques: An indispensable guide to mastering PowerPoint's advanced tools

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.
Table of Contents

Analyzing your Audience and Presentation Delivery Needs
Using Industry Best Practices to Design Better Visuals
Leveraging PowerPoint's Slide Master for Design
Using PowerPoint's Document Masters for Accessible Handouts and Notes
Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Your Visuals
Adding and Modifying Visual Elements
Adding and Modifying Multimedia Elements
Working with Transitions and Animations
Building Flexibility and Interactivity into Your Presentations
Using PowerPoint Third-Party Add-Ins
Practicing Your Presentation Delivery
Using Presenter View
Using PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams