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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 ideas to start a presentation theme from scratch

You have been asked to present on a special topic and have no template for it. And of course, people come to you when deadlines are short. No worries, you can speed up the creation process by starting with a blank presentation and letting Designer provide you with a template. I can already see people rolling their eyes at this one, especially in big corporations where they have teams to create corporate templates, or budgets to hire a design agency to do it. But for small organizations with no team and no budget, Designer theme ideas can be a lifesaver.

These are the steps for using Designer ideas for your presentation theme:

  1. The way it works is quite simple. Start with a blank presentation and inspire yourself with the design ideas in the Designer pane (1) (Figure 5.13). You will get designed title slides that provide quality images, short videos, or animated content displayed on various layouts and using a...
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