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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
Profile icon Chantal Bossé

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Analyzing Your Audience and Presentation Delivery Needs 2. Chapter 2: Using Industry Best Practices to Design Better Visuals 3. Chapter 3: Leveraging PowerPoint’s Slide Master for Design 4. Chapter 4: Using PowerPoint’s Document Masters for Accessible Handouts and Notes 5. Chapter 5: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Your Visuals 6. Chapter 6: Adding and Modifying Visual Elements 7. Chapter 7: Adding and Modifying Multimedia Elements 8. Chapter 8: Working with Transitions and Animations 9. Chapter 9: Building Flexibility and Interactivity into Your Presentations 10. Chapter 10: Using PowerPoint Third-Party Add-Ins 11. Chapter 11: Practicing Your Presentation Delivery 12. Chapter 12: Using Presenter View 13. Chapter 13: PowerPoint Live and Interactive Features in Microsoft Teams 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the annotation tools

When you click on the Pen and laser pointer tools button (1) below the slide preview in Presenter View, you get access to nice annotation tools that can be easily used directly on the slide preview thumbnail (Figure 12.7):

Figure 12.7 – Accessing the annotation tools in Presenter View

Figure 12.7 – Accessing the annotation tools in Presenter View

Selecting either the Laser Pointer, Pen, or Highlighter tool options (2) changes your mouse cursor to the selected type, such as Laser Pointer in my example (3), making it much easier for the audience to follow your cursor. If you are using Pen or Highlighter tool, you will be able to draw over your slide to bring attention to some content.

After changing your cursor to any of the tools, you can change its color (4) before using it on your slide. And if you drew anything on a slide, you can use Eraser and Erase All Ink on Slide (5) tools to remove part of your annotations or all of them at once.

Arrow Options (6) is helpful only if...

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