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Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839215339
Pages 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Chantal Bossé Chantal Bossé
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface Chapter 1: Analyzing Your Audience and Presentation Delivery Needs Chapter 2: Using Industry Best Practices to Design Better Visuals Chapter 3: Leveraging PowerPoint’s Slide Master for Design Chapter 4: Using PowerPoint’s Document Masters for Accessible Handouts and Notes Chapter 5: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Your Visuals Chapter 6: Adding and Modifying Visual Elements Chapter 7: Adding and Modifying Multimedia Elements Chapter 8: Working with Transitions and Animations Chapter 9: Building Flexibility and Interactivity into Your Presentations Chapter 10: Using PowerPoint Third-Party Add-Ins Chapter 11: Practicing Your Presentation Delivery Chapter 12: Using Presenter View Chapter 13: PowerPoint Live and Interactive Features in Microsoft Teams Index Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding custom layouts

Even though adding custom layouts can be done at any time, I prefer to do it after I have taken the time to configure and format the standard layouts. The reason is simple: you can then simply duplicate a standard layout as a starting point, rename it, and make all the necessary changes to it. Here is how you do it:

  • Right-click the layout you want to start with and choose Duplicate Layout (Figure 3.16):
Figure 3.16 – Duplicating an existing layout

Figure 3.16 – Duplicating an existing layout

  • Right-click the second layout that was created (1) and choose Rename Layout (2) to get to the renaming window (3). Change the name to one that describes the layout you are creating and click the Rename button (4) (Figure 3.17):
Figure 3.17 – Renaming a layout

Figure 3.17 – Renaming a layout

You now have a new layout that already has the same title placeholder as your other layouts. Let’s see an example of a custom layout that I often use in presentations...

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