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Chantal Bossé
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Chantal Bossé 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.
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Using the Zoom feature to navigate your content

Microsoft describes its Zoom feature as a way to make your presentations more dynamic and exciting. I call it hyperlinking on steroids because you might not have to use the features described in the previous sections ever again.

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The word zoom has been used a lot in the PowerPoint interface. The Zoom feature refers to hyperlinks created to other slides or sections, not to be confused with the Zoom animation (applied to slide objects), the Zoom transition (applied on a slide), and the tool used to magnify your slide view, also called Zoom.

Since the Zoom feature was introduced, I must say I have saved a lot of design time while still creating interactive content. There are three types of zooms in PowerPoint:

  • Summary Zoom allows you to quickly create your navigation page in just a few clicks. It adds a new slide with the Zoom objects on it, linking to the selected sections.
  • Section Zoom allows you to create a navigation...
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Chantal Bossé

Chantal Bossé 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.
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