Written by a PowerPoint trainer and Microsoft MVP, this book is your ultimate guide to crafting stunning, high-impact presentations with pro-level tools, hidden features, and techniques to captivate your audience effortlessly.
Key Features
Apply industry best practices and expert design techniques to craft engaging presentations
Use PowerPoint's AI tools and automation to save time while adding interactivity and visual appeal
Incorporate animations, multimedia, and interactive elements to make your presentations more dynamic
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Book DescriptionIn today's business world, the ability to deliver powerful presentations can make or break your success. Whether it's winning a crucial client deal, or landing a grant, your presentation skills play a vital role. Yet, many professionals struggle-spending too much time on slides that fail to impress. But what if you could transform the way you create and deliver presentations-without spending hours figuring it out?
This updated second edition goes beyond the basics, introducing the latest PowerPoint features to help you craft professional, high-impact presentations effortlessly. You'll learn how to leverage Microsoft Copilot for AI-driven content creation, use PowerPoint's advanced visual tools to design engaging slides and integrate third-party add-ins for enhanced functionality. This edition also covers new accessibility features, Presenter View enhancements, PowerPoint Live in Teams for seamless remote delivery, and AI-powered design improvements to make your presentations more interactive and effective. This book will guide you step by step from planning your content and optimizing PowerPoint's Master tools to creating visually compelling slides.
By the end, you'll have a proven workflow to create stunning presentations efficiently helping you stand out, engage your audience, and achieve your business goals with confidence.What you will learn
Plan and structure content for maximum audience impact
Use PowerPoint's Masters to create consistent, professional slides and documents
Design engaging visuals with AI, SmartArt, and multimedia
Leverage advanced animations and Morph transitions for smooth flow
Add interactivity with Zoom, hyperlinks, and custom menus
Practice and perfect your delivery with PowerPoint's built-in tools
Enhance audience engagement using Presenter View features
Deliver seamless virtual presentations with PowerPoint Live
Who this book is forIf 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.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 191 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83588-224-5 (9781835882245)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
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 handouts and notes
Starting your presentation with Copilot for M365
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 in your presentations
Using PowerPoint third-party add-ins
Practicing your presentation delivery
Using Presenter view
Using PowerPoint Live and interactive features in Microsoft Teams
