Microsoft PowerPoint best practices, tips, and techniques an indispensable guide to mastering PowerPoint's advanced tools to create engaging presentations
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 Feature...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham ; Mumbai :
Packt Publishing
[2023]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720312406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Using Designer with images
- Using Designer to create visual lists and timelines
- Design ideas from a list
- Design ideas from dates
- 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
- Breaking apart a Venn diagram
- Creating special text
- Using and customizing stock images and other graphics
- Using Picture Format tools
- Customizing icons or illustrations
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 7: Adding and Modifying Multimedia Elements.
- Technical requirements
- Inserting and formatting videos
- Supported video file formats
- Inserting video files
- Formatting video files
- Inserting and formatting audio
- Supported audio file formats
- Inserting audio files
- Formatting audio files
- Using the Cameo feature
- Inserting a screenshot or screen recording for a demo
- Try it yourself
- Creating a video file or GIF from a presentation
- Exporting a presentation as a video
- Creating an animated GIF
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 8: Working with Transitions and Animations
- Technical requirements
- Using slide transitions wisely
- Understanding transition basics
- Viewing slide transitions
- Adjusting the Timing options
- Leveraging the Morph transition
- Using Morph Effect Options
- Creating a moving timeline with Morph
- Creating movement and a zooming effect with Morph
- Morphing an object into another using the !! naming scheme
- Using advanced animation sequences
- Reviewing animations basics with the Animation Pane option
- Modifying existing animations and creating an advanced sequence
- Adding new animations to objects already animated
- Using triggers for on-demand animations
- Using triggers with shapes and images
- Using triggers with a video bookmark
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 9: Building Flexibility and Interactivity into Your Presentations
- Technical requirements
- Using navigation elements in a presentation
- Navigating with action buttons
- Creating your navigation buttons
- Using other slide objects for navigation
- Creating custom shows
- Using the Zoom feature to navigate your content
- Creating a summary zoom
- Inserting a section zoom
- Inserting a slide zoom
- Creating triggered menus
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 10: Using PowerPoint Third-Party Add-Ins
- Technical requirements.
- BrightCarbon
- Using BrightSlide (for free)
- Using BrandIn (paid)
- Neuxpower
- Using Neuxpower's compression tools
- Using Slidewise (paid)
- Billion Dollar Graphics
- Using Build-a-Graphic (paid)
- PPTools
- Using THOR (free)
- Using PPTMerge (paid)
- 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
- Starting Speaker Coach
- Analyzing your rehearsal report
- 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
- Using Q&
- A
- Using Polls in a meeting
- Improving the camera, lighting, and microphone setup
- Checking Microsoft Teams device settings
- Tips to help you improve how you look and sound
- Summary
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Index
- Other Books You May Enjoy.
