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Microsoft PowerPoint Mastery - Second Edition: Build professional presentations effortlessly with best practices, tips, and AI-powered tools
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781835882245
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: Oct 24 2025
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.73
Height: 0.93 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Launch decks with Copilot, refine visuals with Designer, rehearse with Speaker Coach, and deliver with PowerPoint Live to create polished PowerPoint presentations
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Key Features:
- Design dynamic, engaging presentations with purposeful transitions, navigation, and interactive elements
- Save time and streamline workflows using Slide Master, Handout Master, Designer, and Copilot
- Bring your ideas to life with stunning visuals using SmartArt, images, multimedia, and AI tools
Book Description:
If you've ever spent hours crafting slides that still feel uninspired, you're not alone. This book shows you how to tap into PowerPoint's true potential to transform ordinary decks into presentations that connect, persuade, and stick.
This second edition is updated with a full chapter on using Microsoft Copilot to jump-start new presentations and expands coverage of AI-powered design tools like Designer. It introduces new ways to convert text into SmartArt, customize PowerPoint's stock images, and integrate third-party add-ins. You'll also explore richer multimedia options, purposeful transitions and navigation, and enhanced delivery tools, such as Speaker Coach and the latest PowerPoint Live features, including polls, Q&A, avatars, and immersive spaces, for more engaging virtual presentations. You'll discover how to speed up slide creation, elevate visuals, and structure your decks for maximum clarity and impact. Real-world examples throughout ensure you can apply these features immediately.
By the end of this book, you'll have the skills, confidence, and workflow to create professional presentations that flow seamlessly and leave a lasting impression, all while saving time and working smarter.
What You Will Learn:
- Plan and structure content for maximum audience impact
- Use PowerPoint's Masters to create consistent, professional slides and documents
- Leverage advanced animations and Morph transitions for smooth flow
- Add interactivity with Zoom, hyperlinks, and custom menus
- Practice and perfect your delivery with PowerPoint's built-in tools
- Enhance audience engagement by using Presenter View features
- Deliver seamless virtual presentations with PowerPoint Live
Who this book is for:
This book is for business professionals who want actionable best practices and smarter ways to get the most out of PowerPoint's features to create and deliver compelling presentations. No formal presentation design knowledge is needed, but you do need to know PowerPoint's basic tools and functions, such as starting and saving files, adding, copying, pasting, or moving slides. A sound understanding of cloud storage and the use of Office 365 is also needed.
Table of Contents
- Analyzing Your Audience and Presentation Delivery Needs
- Using Industry Best Practices to Design Better Visuals
- Leveraging PowerPoint's Slide Master for Design
- Using PowerPoint's Document Masters for Accessible Handouts and Notes
- Starting Your Presentation With M365 Copilot
- Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Your Visuals
- Adding and Modifying Visual Elements
- Adding and Modifying Multimedia Elements
- Working with Transitions and Animations
- Building Flexibility and Interactivity into Your Presentations
- Using PowerPoint Third-Party Add-Ins
- Practicing Your Presentation Delivery
- Using Presenter View
- Using PowerPoint Live and Interactive Features in Microsoft Teams
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