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Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques

You're reading from   Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques An indispensable guide to mastering PowerPoint's advanced tools to create engaging presentations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839215339
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chantal Bossé Chantal Bossé
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Analyzing Your Audience and Presentation Delivery Needs 2. Chapter 2: Using Industry Best Practices to Design Better Visuals FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Leveraging PowerPoint’s Slide Master for Design 4. Chapter 4: Using PowerPoint’s Document Masters for Accessible Handouts and Notes 5. Chapter 5: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Your Visuals 6. Chapter 6: Adding and Modifying Visual Elements 7. Chapter 7: Adding and Modifying Multimedia Elements 8. Chapter 8: Working with Transitions and Animations 9. Chapter 9: Building Flexibility and Interactivity into Your Presentations 10. Chapter 10: Using PowerPoint Third-Party Add-Ins 11. Chapter 11: Practicing Your Presentation Delivery 12. Chapter 12: Using Presenter View 13. Chapter 13: PowerPoint Live and Interactive Features in Microsoft Teams 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Designer to create visual lists and timelines

Many times, I have heard clients tell me they just did not have time to search visuals, so they simply added text or keywords to their slides. But now, every Microsoft 365 user can get help from Designer being able to search your words to match them with relevant images. There is no more excuse to have only text on your slides! Let’s see a few examples of how well Designer can translate your words into visual elements.

Design ideas from a list

Creating a list of bullet points is something we have been doing for a very long time in PowerPoint. For this example and the following ones, I will also show you how Designer keeps the design ideas on brand by using slides that have a simple colored rectangle at the bottom in its template.

In Figure 5.8, we have a Title and Content layout with a list of three short sentences (1): Update your software, Update your system, and Restart your computer. Depending on your settings...

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