Bossé, Chantal

Microsoft PowerPoint mastery : build professional presentations effortlessly with best practices, tips, and AI-powered tools / Chantal Bossé; foreword by Mike Parkinson - Second edition - Packt Publishing 2025 - xxiv, 434 pages : illustrations

Includes index.

Part 1: Planning Your Presentation Content and Design
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?
An informative session
Project update presentation
A client or investor pitch deck
A corporate training session
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 the slide master
Choosing fonts and colors
Selecting the color palette
How to customize a color palette
Things to be aware of when changing colors in a palette
Selecting title and body fonts
Configuring standard layouts
Changes you should avoid
Adding custom layouts
Reordering your slide layouts
Renaming your template to avoid Office Theme labeling
Using the Hide Background Graphics feature
Using the improved Insert Picture experience in placeholders
Retrieving missing footer placeholders Using the lock feature for placeholders or objects
Making your slide master compatible for AI services
Microsoft's recommendations
Placeholder size variety
Slide layout variety
Naming layouts
Using the Copilot PowerPoint Starter Template
Summary
Further reading
Chapter 4: Using PowerPoint's Document Masters for Accessible Handouts and

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