Chapter 1: Analyzing Your Audience and Presentation Delivery Needs
10 questions to help you plan your presentation
Analyzing and sorting your content
Structuring and developing your message
Summary
Further reading

Chapter 2: Using Industry Best Practices to Design Better Visuals
Technical requirements
Choosing fonts
Using the right font size
Learning about contrast
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
Choosing fonts and colors
Configuring standard layouts
Adding custom layouts
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
Configuring the Notes Master for a complete handout
Making your presentations accessible
Printing your documents
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
Using Designer to create visual lists and timelines
Using Designer ideas to start a presentation theme from scratch
Bringing perspective to your data with Designer
Summary
Further reading

Chapter 6: Adding and Modifying Visual Elements
Technical requirements
Inserting and modifying a map
Converting bullet points into SmartArt
Creating new shapes with Edit Points
Creating new shapes with the merging tools
Using and customizing stock images and other graphics
Summary
Further reading

Chapter 7: Adding and Modifying Multimedia Elements
Technical requirements
Inserting and formatting videos
Inserting and formatting audio
Using the Cameo feature
Inserting a screenshot or screen recording for a demo
Creating a video file or GIF from a presentation
Summary
Further reading

Chapter 8: Working with Transitions and Animations
Technical requirements
Using slide transitions wisely
Leveraging the Morph transition
Using advanced animation sequences
Using triggers for on-demand animations
Summary
Further reading

Chapter 9: Building Flexibility and Interactivity into Your Presentations
Technical requirements
Using navigation elements in a presentation
Creating custom shows
Using the Zoom feature to navigate your content
Creating triggered menus
Summary
Further reading

Chapter 10: Using PowerPoint Third-Party Add-Ins
Technical requirements
BrightCarbon
Neuxpower
Billion Dollar Graphics
PPTools
Summary
Further reading

Chapter 11: Practicing Your Presentation Delivery
Technical requirements
Viewing and adapting Slide Show options
Leveraging Speaker Coach to help you practice your talk
Rehearsing timings and creating a recorded practice run
Using the new Record feature to practice
Summary
Further reading

Chapter 12: Using Presenter View
Technical requirements
Defining and starting Presenter View
Using the display and navigation tools
Using the annotation tools
Using other tools
Making your presentation more accessible with live subtitles
Summary

Chapter 13: PowerPoint Live and Interactive Features in Microsoft Teams
Technical requirements
Getting started with and using PowerPoint Live
Creating and using breakout rooms
Using Q&A and Polls to create more interactions
Improving the camera, lighting, and microphone setup
Summary
Conclusion
Further reading
Index

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.