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  title info:
    title: Microsoft PowerPoint best practices, tips, and techniques
    sub title: an indispensable guide to mastering PowerPoint's advanced tools to create engaging presentations
  name:
    name part: Bossé, Chantal.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Birmingham
    publisher: Packt Publishing, Limited
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations
  abstract: 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 …
  table of 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?
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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 -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Leveraging PowerPoint's Slide Master for Design -- Technical requirements -- 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
  table of contents: 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 -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Using PowerPoint's Document Masters for Accessible Handouts and Notes -- Technical requirements -- Configuring the Handout Master for a simple document
  table of contents: 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 -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Your Visuals -- Technical requirements -- Creating great image layouts with Designer -- Setting up Designer
  note: Chantal Bossé.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Microsoft PowerPoint (Computer file)
  subject:
    topic: Presentation graphics software
  classification: P93.53.M534
  classification: 005.5/8
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1353278128
  identifier: 9781839216602
  identifier: 1839216603
  identifier: 183921533X
  identifier: 9781839215339
  identifier: 9781839215339 O'Reilly Media
  identifier: https://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230214
    record change date: 20260129163549.7
    record identifier: in00004673774
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng