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With a few key PowerPoint tips and tricks, you can be just as confident as this character in your next presentation! (Image
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Effective PowerPoint presentation with animation and graphics (Image credit- Envato Market)
Knowing how to use PowerPoint and working within it early is helpful. But more important is creating a
good presentation that hits all your goals and delivers it effectively. A great PowerPoint presentation is:
Ready to Win. Professionally researched, planned and prepared so that you can effectively deliver
the right message to your target audience.
Designed correctly. With points that are illustrated and visually illustrated without overwhelming
your audience or unnecessarily complicating your message.
Practiced to perfection. Rehearsed as rehearsals with his live audience and arrived on time.
Gave up with poise. Presented with a calm inner and confident, full of projection, communicating
warmth, enthusiasm and energy.
Free from mistakes. Devoid of substandard clip art, non-flashing glare, abortions like reading
directly from promoters, and other easy to avoid problems.
Consider your all-inclusive guide to making a good presentation PPT. We will focus on preparing your
presentation, how to design it in PowerPoint, as well as how to practice your delivery and present nails.
We will also address what not to do with these tips for PowerPoint presentations – so you can prevent any
major mistakes.
Before you open PowerPoint, start by addressing these things. These Microsoft PowerPoint tips and tricks
will ensure that you are all set for your presentation:
Getting to know your audience well — their apprehensions, wants, and desires — is the first step towards
creating a PowerPoint presentation that persuades them.
It’s never too early to get accustomed to the rhythm of your presentation and to focus on the points you want
to emphasize. Saying it out loud, you will begin to develop a “feel” for the content and note that some things
work well, while others do not need to work.
“Editing is hard. It’s good enough,” is a phrase wannabes use. Leaders take editing seriously. “Anthony
Trendle
The writing phase is the most important part of making a great presentation. The second most important
step is rewriting.
Here is an article to help you collaborate as a team on a PowerPoint presentation. When you collaborate
withEntry-Level Remote Jobs, get PowerPoint design tips from people you trust.
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For example, if you’re giving an in-depth business presentation cartoons and whimsical colours might not be
the best fit. You really have to think about whom you’re talking to, and, what you’re saying then find a
template that fits the occasion templates are useful because they take the hard work out of slide design.
Where Can You Find the Best PowerPoint PPT Templates for 2020?
One subscription, unlimited downloads; the templates you’ll find on Envato Elements are loaded with PowerPoint tips and
tricks. (Image source: Envato)
PowerPoint template is a collection of rebuilt slide designs complete with colour palette’s text placeholders
and more once you choose a template. All you have to do is drop your own content into the placeholders.
Share it with your audience no need to spend time building slides from scratch PowerPoint includes a
collection of templates built in these are okay for some purposes.
But I strongly prefer the incredible templates available on Envato elements is an all you can download
service for creatives and it includes thousands of amazing PowerPoint templates as you can see here
elements has a template to suit almost any need what’s more unlike built-in designs many of these templates
come with a ton of customisation options to make your slide deck truly unique.
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It’s critical to focus in on your message and your audience thinking through this on the front end makes for
better and more effective presentations when you’re done spend some time looking through elements vast
collection to find the template that’s right for you by choosing one of these.
You can instantly give your presentation a professional looks simply not possible with anything built into
PowerPoints to look at one in more depth just click on the thumbnails will select the template as you’re
seeing me do here you’ll see a screen with more image previews along with the description of the template’s
features Freelancing work if you’re happy with it just click download here in the upper right corner you’ll see
a screen pop up that asks you to associate the download with a project this is a simple licensing step so just
input what you’re using.
You can’t use images or any other stuffs without a license on internet that provided by the Envato market during
membership
The template for and then click add and download. Even if, you eventually quit subscribing to the elements.
You’ll still be licensed to use the template, once this is complete, your download will begin open up the zip
file that you downloaded from the elements, then find the dot Pptx file and double-click to open it up.
That’s it, in just a few steps we’ve chosen a template that’s perfect for our presentation. When you’re
working on a PowerPoint presentation, one of the first things, you’ll want to look at is the slide layout the
slide layout. Which is, basically, the arrangement of content on the slide itself slide layouts include text
boxes, graphics image placeholders, and more these really let you dial in your slide designs to match the type
of content you’re showcasing.
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You’re giving for example, if you’re trying to promote your business to potential investors a business themed
pitch deck template will likely include built-in layout options that match well with your goals once you’ve
selected and downloaded a template. It’s time to get started editing the slide layout for the purposes of this
lesson. I’m using the symphony template from Envato elements. It’s a robust and stylish PowerPoint
template with a ton of amazing layouts built in. I’m looking at the first slide on screen.
Slide Editing
Here and now, let’s preview a few of the built-in layouts. I’ll scroll down here on the sidebar on the left and
click on a few thumbnails to preview slide layouts. As you can see each Slide includes an array of content
placeholders. Now, all you have to do is click on each one and fill in your own content this takes the tedium
and guesswork out of designing slides from scratch.
Once, you find a layout. Like, you can click and drag to move the slide around in the presentation itself, or if
you want to duplicate a slide. Right click on the thumbnail here and click duplicate slide. This is perfect. If
you want several slides in a row with the exact same layout, just change out the content, and all of your
layout edits will be automatically preserved.
Two columns for the body, luckily is changing the layout of a specific slide is super easy. Make sure, you’re
on the home tab here on PowerPoints’ ribbon and then click on the layout here in the upper left corner.
You’ll see a menu pop up with an array of different layout options. These will vary between any two
templates that you might be using remember.
We said, we wanted a title and two columns staking a look at the option shown number 54 looks perfect.
Just click on the preview and this layout, edit will instantly be applied to your slide. Then just go ahead and
start adding your text to build out the perfect slide. Remember, you can always reverse these changes. Just
click the undo arrow here at the top or repeat the steps. Choose another layout from the layout menu, okay.
Limit restriction
This is not the place for exclamation points. Emphasize your words (while speaking). Do not list punctuation
for you to do this. (Leave them at home!!!)
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This PowerPoint presentation tip is simple. There is no need to capitalize every word of each bullet point, or
to hold all your bullet points in the title case. If possible, skip the pills altogether. Again, better simple!
To build your PPT presentation skills, it helps to record yourself and review it for opportunities to improve. (Image source:
Envato Elements.)
That’s it, we’ve learned how to edit slide layouts in Microsoft PowerPoint. In the last lesson we looked at how
to customize the layout of individual slides. This is great, if you need to customize each slide by itself, but
sometimes, you need to apply the same edit to a group of or even all of your slides.
It’s completely unnecessary. This is where the PowerPoint slide master feature comes. In slide master is a
bulk editing tool built into PowerPoint when you’re visualizing a presentation picture. It as a stack with a
master slide and then a series of related slides any change or edit made to the master slide. It’s automatically
applied to any of the slides below.
Here in the upper right corner remember what we want to do is add an image to every slide to do that. I’ll
come up to the ribbon again and click on the insert tab. Then, I’ll click pictures. Then, it’ll simply browse to
an image stored on my computer, click to select it, and then, click on insert the image will appear on my
master slide as usual with PowerPoint.
It’s time to return to the normal slide view on the slide master tab. Just click close master view here at the
top boom. You’re back to PowerPoints’ usual look and you can see your image applied to each slide.
Remember, you can insert any type of content onto a master. Get the same results preparation is key when
you’re building and giving a PowerPoint presentation. Initially, I found it really helps to outline my message
and content ahead of making my slides outline serve as a guide map to make sure you track.
If you want to review your main ideas right before you present. It’s also useful for grouping slides together
and figuring out where you’ve placed certain concepts once again. We’re working on the symphony
presentation from Envato elements. Let’s say, I want to quickly review an outline of my slides in outline view
at a glance.
I’ll be able to review quick summaries of the content featured on each and every slide. I’ll come up here to
the view tab on the PowerPoint ribbon now. You’ll see the collection of options over here in the upper left
corner called presentation views. I’ll go ahead and click on the outline view PowerPoint will shift to outline
view.
Try this: Choose three dots in the room (usually: left, center, right). Take time to direct your delivery
towards each physical focal point in the room. Also, focus on the center when creating your primary points.
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Very your sentence length
You find it more interesting and easier for your audience to follow. Think short and porous. Or are long and
complex for dramatic effect.
Merge!
Do not speak in a monotone for your entire presentation. Be vigilant to raise and lower your voice.
Otherwise, people will tune you in, and you will come in Charlie Brown like a teacher.
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Use a professionally-designed presentation template, such as those available through Envato Elements or GraphicRiver, to make
sure your web presentation looks good. (Credit: Envato Market)
You’ll be able to see it here in the sidebar on the left side. If it has won the title of each slide will be printed in
bold. Subheadings that you might have will appear directly below with the slide number over on the left side.
If you have content placeholders save for the images instead of subheadings.
This is a way to view your whole presentation at a glance. It’s perfect for reordering and rearranging your
slide slide sorter lives up here in the presentation view group too. I’ll go ahead and click on the option for
iron your screen you’ll see the presentation, transform into a series of thumbnails these are small previews of
each and every slide you can click on one to view it, or you can click. Drag to reorder slides as you see me to
do here.
Minimalist slide templates like Nook can help you resist the urge to clutter your slides. (Image credit: Image)
I’m building a new PowerPoint presentation. I’m looking for ways to make it more unique and want to break
free of built-in font. Add a brand new one from elements, let’s jump over to Envato elements here. Navigate
over to the font section by choosing it from the browse menu here at the top now here on the left side.
You’ll see some filters that help you narrow down the types of fonts to look for choosing serif decorative
condensed. More options to fine-tune your selections for me. I’m open to all kinds of fonts, therefore, I’ll
scroll down through the options here on the main screen each font has a preview thumbnail like you see
here.
When I find one, love to go ahead and click on it. You’ll see other previews that can be clicked through here
on the right. Okay, I really like the look of this font, so I’ll go ahead and download it. Then click on the
download button here in the corner. In this pop-up menu, enter a license use for the font remember.
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Even if you stop subscribing to the elements. You’ll still be licensed to use the font. When I’m finished. I’ll go
ahead and select add and download here at the bottom the download will begin. When, it’s finished. I’ll
jump over and open up the zip folder to view the font files in windows, be sure, to actually extract the zip file
rather than just clicking into it.
In our presentation jumping back over to my PowerPoint. I’ll start off by clicking and dragging it to select
some text. As, you’re seeing me do here. Then, I’ll come up here to the font menu on the ribbon and click on
this drop down just like any other font. I’ll scroll until I find the name of the font. I just added and click on
PowerPoint will instantly apply it to the text.
I’ve selected new fonts aren’t the only way to style your text in PowerPoint. You can also apply text effects
which are creative options to change the look. Feel of words on your slides let’s look at some of these options.
I’ll click and drag to select some text here and then right click on the highlighted area down at the bottom of
this pop-up menu.
Style of the shadow text effect. I’ll click and drag on the size slider and as you can see a shadow appears right
behind the title. Once I have it sized. I can tweak the transparency slider as well to keep the shadow
comfortably in the background, when I’m finished with text effects.
I can close out the format on the sidebar and return my slide to normal view that’s really all. It takes a few
simple steps to make. It’s easy to create totally unique and dynamic text styles in your PowerPoint.
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Here’s another one of our top PPT tips: tap into Envato Elements’ unlimited stock photo library.
Next up, PowerPoint presentations featuring only text can get dull quickly to keep your audience engaged.
You really have to spice things up with pictures and illustrations. Fortunately, PowerPoint includes a ton of
great tools to make these easy images. Backgrounds can be added to your slides in just a few clicks.
There are even built-in editing tools to save you the time and trouble of using an app like photoshop to make
quick-change. The first step is choosing what images you want to add. Of course, you may have photos of
your own that you want to use in your presentation. But if you need to find images from an external source.
You need to be careful just because you find an image online doesn’t mean that you’re free to use it.
Let’s say, I’m building a slide and I want to include two images one of a sailboat. One of the lighthouses. Its
jump over to elements and type in sailboat up here in the search box. I’ll press enter on my keyboard and as
you can see here. There are hundreds of results that scroll down and find one I like clicking on it.
You can see a larger preview and the option to download here on the right side. Let’s click download and go
ahead. Enter a license use for the photo. Remember, even if, you stop subscribing to the elements. You’ll still
be licensed to use anything you downloaded while a member. That’s it, the image file drops into my
downloads and is ready to use now.
I’ll just go ahead and repeat this process to find and download a lighthouse photo that I like as well. Now, it’s
time to begin placing the images in our presentation. First, we need to find a slide with a good layout. If
you’re using a pre-built custom theme from Envato elements many of the slide layouts include image
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placeholders’ buildings.
Let’s say I want to add the lighthouse image, but I don’t have a placeholder for it on the slide no problem
what we’ll do is come up here for the insert tab on PowerPoints’ ribbon. I’ll click pictures right below it and
then repeat the same steps as before. Browsing to an image and clicking to insert it. Okay, our images are
placed on the slide now.
Suppose, we want to make a few changes. You can click and drag on an image to move it around the slider to
resize it. Click and drag on one of the corners as you’re seeing me do here. This is ideal for quick movements
and style changes, but PowerPoint really offers a great set of options to edit your images. They can be found
up on the ribbon.
Make sure, your image is selected and then come up with the picture tools format option here. You’ll find the
ability to make colour corrections crop an image. Apply filter borders rotations and more. For example, let’s
say we want to use the image as background other words. It’ll be behind our text again with the image
selected.
I’ll click on send backward here on the ribbon. Then in the drop down, let’s choose send to back that’s all. It
takes the image is now placed behind your text. Any other objects on the slide to demonstrate. I’ll click and
drag the text box over the image and then change the font colour to something that really stands out.
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Use pre-built chart template series
As, you can see, it’s really easy to make an image into a background photo. Smart art is a powerful way to
visualize data and concepts in Microsoft PowerPoint it’s a series of pre-built chart templates that you can
fully customize to meet your needs money PowerPoint templates from Envato elements. Include amazing
built-in charts, but sometimes you have to go totally custom to get your point across. I’m working on a slide
here. As, you can see it’s all tucked so far.
I want to make it more engaging and so I’m going to add smart art over here in the empty space to browse
smart art options. Let’s come up here for the insert tab on the PowerPoint ribbon over near the center. I’ll
find the button labelled smart art and click on it. You’ll see a selector menu pop-up where you can browse
the wide variety of smart art available.
Once, I do this you can see that there are several options previewed here in the center. Let’s say my company
is led by a single CEO with multiple direct reports. This option here on the left side looks like a good fit, so
I’ll click to preview and then choose OK. The smart art will appear here on my slide as you can see. There are
text placeholders that overlay the stylish graphics that smart art brings to your presentation.
You’ll see two new menus that have appeared under the smart art tools heading here at the top design and
format first up. Let’s check out the design tab where I can change the layout promote order individual nodes
in the chart or change the smart art style let’s say I want to change the colour.
I’ll click on change colours here in the middle and then browse these various colour options once find one,
then I’ll click on it and PowerPoint will apply it to the smart art next up. Let’s check out the format tab this
applies mostly to the entire SmartArt illustration. Although you can edit each note or part of the smart art.
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Timeline-slides-PowerPoint-keynote-google-slide (Image credit- Infographic)
You can also manipulate the entire piece just like you would a photo suppose. I want to right align the chart.
I’ll click and drag a corner to make a little smaller. You’re seeing me do here now on the format menu with
my SmartArt selected. I’ll click on this align drop down here in the upper right. Then, I’ll click align right the
chart will instantly shift to the right side of my slide.
Avoid introducing concepts all at once. I’m working on a slide here and as you can see there are several types
of content on it. There’s a title a subtitle. A text box and an image now by default when I advance to this
slide in PowerPoint.
First things first, I’ll start with the title. I’ll click on the title box to select it. Then come up to the animations
tab on PowerPoints ribbon. The left half of this new menu here at the top shows the many animations
available to use.
I can even click on this drop-down arrow to get an even wider selection. I really want something eye-
catching so I’ll try this swivel option. I’ll click to select it. You can see a PowerPoint previewing the effect.
Since, I want to animate the subtitle the same way. I’ll repeat these same steps. Then click to select the
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subtitle and then add the swivel animation.
Next up, it’s time to handle the main body of text right here. Below for this, I want something less fancy, so a
simple fade should work with the text box selected. I’ll just return here to the animation pane and then
choose fade. Finally, for the image I want something dramatic. Let’s say, it’s a big unveil, so I want to build a
little suspense for this.
I’ll choose the shape animation boom. We’ve added 4 animations to our side, but we’re not finished
remember how I said. Wanted the title and subtitle to animate together by default. PowerPoint introduces
animations the order that they were added one, two, three, four, but wanted items one and two to appear on
my slide.
At the same time to customize animation order and timing. Let’s come back up to the animations tab and
then click animation pane here at the top. This is really the control center for animations in PowerPoint.
You’ll see a new sidebar on the right with all of our animations listed. Since, I want to group 1 and 2. I’ll go
ahead and right click on item 2 here.
Then, I’ll click start with previous on the down now. You’ll see only three numbered animations listed, but
still our same four options. The one we just changed is now nested under the item. One so it’ll start at the
same time. There are other changes that you can make as well up here in the timing menu. You can change
animation duration delay start trigger and more.
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This gives you the ability to match animations to the pace of your overall presentation. You can also reorder
animations up here by clicking. Dragging on the side. Just a few clicks, the entire dynamic of the slide can
change. That’s it, now that things are styled and ordered correctly. It’s time to preview our side. I’ll come
over here to the preview button in the upper left corner.
One example is video in just a few clicks, you can actually embed a video right onto a slide. This is perfect. If
you need a visual aid or really want to explore something in more depth videos in PowerPoint can be edited.
Changed just like images you also have a nice assortment of editing tools to make simple changes to a video
right inside of PowerPoint.
I’m working on a slide here and you can see some text over here on the left side. Let’s say I want to fill the
space here with a video to add a bit more visual appeal. The first step is to find a video to add to my slide. Of
course, you may have videos of your own that you want to use, but let’s say that isn’t the case and I need to
find a video online
Let’s jump over to elements and check out their stock video options for my PowerPoint. Let’s say that I want
to show video of a waterfall. I’ll type that in the search box and then press enter on my keyboard as you can
see elements has hundreds of options for me here. I’ll scroll down and then click on the thumbnail of a video
that I can watch this larger preview here. If I’m ready to use it.
My video is downloaded and it’s time to add it to my slide jumping back over to PowerPoint. Let’s come up
to the insert tab on the ribbon over here on the far-right side in the media section. You’ll see a button called
video. I’ll go ahead and click on it. You’ll see this drop down with two options. Online video is useful if you
want to use a video stored online, but for our purposes let’s go ahead.
Choose video on my PC this browser window will open up. I can go ahead and locate the video file we just
downloaded select it. Press insert PowerPoint will drop the video onto my slide. The first thing you may
notice is that the video may cover up your entire slide, but that’s no problem. Just like an image I can click
and drag corners to make the video smaller.
Let’s press this play arrow here. Watch his PowerPoint. Plays the video, that’s it in just a few clicks. We’ve
dressed up a blank slide with an amazing video GIF are a popular way to add some motion. Style to your
PowerPoint presentation while we often think of GIFs as just funny images, they can also be really useful
visual aids to help.
You get your point across Envato elements has a nice collection of GIFs that you can download with your
membership. I’m using this flat animated icon set here, which includes several cool GIF icons in a single
download. Let’s go ahead and download the pack by clicking on download as usual. We need to specify
license usage.
We’ll look at a slide that I’ve been creating. You can see, it’s pretty text heavy without a lot of visual interest.
When, you’re putting your slides together, always remember that you’re presenting it to an audience. It’s
human nature to be attracted by colours and motion, whereas, text alone can become dull.
The worst thing that can happen to you as a presenter is to lose the attention of your audience.GIFs are an
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easy way to make sure they stay engaged my slide is talking about data here, so it feels like the paper charts
GIF. The pack we downloaded would be a good fit. Let’s go ahead and add it to the slideshow.
Just like any other image I can click on it. Drag to move it around on my slide. One can also resize the GIF by
pulling on one of these handles in the corners. You’re seeing me do here, but this isn’t the only customization
option that I have to check those out with the GIFs selected. Let’s come up here with the picture tools format
option here.
I can add effects align and position the GIF precisely on the slide or even rotate it to a new angle for our
purposes. Let’s say I want to change the colour of the GIF to make it a better match for my slide. I’ll go ahead
and click on colour here on the left side. This window will pop up with a collection of pre-built colour
themes for my GIF.
I’ll press the GIF will instantly update itself on the slide now. It’s time to preview the GIFs. I start the
preview watch as the GIF, animated onto the slide our custom colours are also applied and by default the GIF
keeps playing over and over. It’s really easy to add cool GIFs to your slides to help keep your audience
focused. One of the best uses for PowerPoint is to help visualize data trying to talk through numbers. It can
be really dull and confusing. That’s why, it’s so helpful to use PowerPoint charts to help bring your data to
life.
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PowerPoint Charts (Image credit: Envato Market)
There are tons of chart styles and options available and you can fully customize each one. It’s one of the
easiest and best ways to make your presentation pop. Keep your audience engaged. PowerPoint themes from
Envato elements often come with incredible charts already built in. All you have to do is change the styling
and data to fit your own needs.
Pressing delete on my keyboard this frees up space. Makes the chart looks little cleaner, okay. Now, it’s time
to customize the data itself. I’ll right-click anywhere on the chart and then choose edit data. You’ll actually
see an excel spreadsheet window open right inside of PowerPoint there. I can start changing out the data in
each of these five rows.
Let’s say that I want to reposition the chart on my slide charts work just like images. I can just click and drag
to move the chart to different positions. I can resize it by clicking on a corner. Scaling it up or down when
you’re giving a presentation. Remember that, chart labels and details might be hard to see from the back of a
room.
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That’s why, it pays to make your chart as big as you can now. I’ve added my data and placed the chart on the
slide. I’ll finish by changing out the look and feel of the charts these options live up here. On the design tab in
the chart tools design option here. I can change things like the chart style. Even, the type of chart for our
purposes all.
The chart will preview them live as you can see here. Once, I find a colour simply click to select it. The chart
will update to match finally last up. We want to remove some of the clutter from the chart the main thing.
These grid lines just to give the chart a cleaner look with the chart selected. Let’s click on the plus icon here
and then click to uncheck the grid line box.
That does it in just a few easy steps. We’ve created a totally custom stylish chart to help bring our data to life.
Charts can be useful in almost any presentation. Especially, those that are data driven infographics are
visuals used to illustrate concepts. Data in a clear and concise way they’re especially useful in PowerPoint
presentations, because they help you explain your key ideas to your audience.
I like to use infographics regularly both to make my slides more attractive. Easier to understand
infographics are meant to be simple. Creating them should be too, that’s why it’s so helpful to use pre-built
infographic PowerPoint templates from Envato elements infographic templates like the one you see here are
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packed with incredible designs that fit almost any situation all you have to do is add in your own data.
The professional designs do there, scroll through a few of the slide designs here. You can see how many
options exist in this template. It’s up to you to choose the one that works best. The key to selecting an
infographic is figuring out what you’re trying to communicate. In my case, I want to document a simple
process flow let’s choose this slide right here as the forward-facing arrow seems to fit my purpose.
Then, I’ll align each of these text boxes with the corresponding shape in the infographic next up. It’s time to
customize the infographic to fit my process in this case. I’ll start adding captions to each of the three text
boxes you’re seeing me do here. The bold font is like a title and the text below is describing.
I downloaded through my Envato element’s membership. Elements has recently added royalty-free music
that you can use in presentations and other projects the files are included in your element’s membership. By
providing a license usage, you’re covered in terms of copyrights and fair use.
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You should skip sound effects if you want to learn how to make an effective PowerPoint presentation without distractions.
(Image source: Envato Elements.)
Sound effects – like the swoop that used to happen when your college professor brought a new bullet
point to the power point – distracting and outdated. Avoid this in most cases.
Add audio or music to your presentation to inject interest or highlight an important point, but there is
something to take extra care with. If you include audio, make sure that your usage really connects with your
audience and takes a fresh approach. Otherwise, it is best to leave it.
It’s time to think about the type of music that I want to use. My presentation is meant for my business so
high-volume rock music probably isn’t the best choice. Instead, I’d like some soft piano music just to play in
the background let’s go ahead. Try a broad search term piano. That type it in and hit enter and elements will
return all music results matching that keywords you can see. I get thousands of results. I’ll scroll down until
I find a title that looks right for me.
I can see the music files along with supporting documentation jumping back to PowerPoint. It’s now time to
add the music to my presentation I want it to play from the very start of my presentation. So, let’s be sure
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we’re working on the first slide. Then, I’ll come up here to the insert tab on power point’s ribbon over on the
far-right side in the media group.
These controls will be visible on the slide. You’ll also have to click to start the music playing for my purposes.
I want the controls to be invisible. The music to start all by itself and keep playing for the duration of the
presentation to make those changes. I’ll come up with the audio tools playback menu.
Preview presentation
First up, let’s make sure the controls stay hidden by checking this box labelled hide during the show. Then to
start the music automatically, click on this drop down next to the start box. Choose automatic. Let’s also
make sure the music keeps playing across multiple slides by default. It only plays on the slide.
You add it to that’s done by checking this play across slides option here. Last up to keep the music file
playing over and over throughout your presentation check loop until stopped. That’s it, we’ve added a calm
background track to the presentation, be sure to turn your sound on and preview your presentation. As,
you’re seeing me do here click through a few slides to make sure the music keeps playing just the way you
want it.
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As, you can see it’s easy to make your presentation stand out through the use of music. With your element’s
membership, you have a ton of great options PowerPoint presentations are great ways to show off software.
Services to potential users, even if you just want to show a preview of your website device. Mock-up
templates are the best way to do it device.
I’ll copy the image file to my computer now. Just adding the screenshot image to my slide won’t allow me to
overlay it on the phone. Mock-up a little bit of editing will be needed for that for this. I’ll need to jump over
to the slide templates. Download folder inside. You’ll see this folder called PSD device mock-up.
Use Slide Sorter view to drag-and-drop and re-sequence the order of images in your slideshow. (Image credit: Envato)
I’ll go ahead and open it up. You can see sub folders inside for all different types of devices, tablets, laptops,
smartphones and more. For my presentation, I’m working with a smartphone, so I’ll go ahead and open that
folder inside there’s this smartphone .PSD file which is an adobe photoshop image file.
If I have photoshop installed, I can double click on the file and photoshop will launch okay now. We’ve got
photoshop open up. In the center window here, you’ll see a placeholder image turned at a sharp angle, think
back to the smartphone mock-up. You’ll realize this image is meant to perfectly overlay the screen.
All we need to do is add in our own screenshot down here in the lower right in the layers panel. You’ll see
two layers stacked one is the background and the other is labelled double click here. You’ll see arrows
pointing at this tiny thumbnail movie go ahead and double click on it. This is called a smart object layer.
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By clicking on it the image placeholder will appear in the preview screen. As, you can see here now all I have
to do is locate my screenshot of my computer and click and drag it onto the photoshop window. Click and
drag the edges of the screenshot until it completely covers the placeholder when I’ve got it right.
I’ll go ahead and press CTRL+S on windows or command S on the MAC to save my changes. Then, I’ll jump
over to the main window here by choosing this tab in the upper left. As, you can see photoshop has adjusted
the screenshot to match the angle of the smartphone mock-up screen. It looks great and I can’t wait to see it
on my slide.
Finally, I’ll go ahead and go through the steps of saving and exporting the image from photoshop. You can
see me doing here now that our screenshot is ready. Let’s go ahead and jump back to the slide on the mock-
up screen. Note that it says click icon to add picture this is the image placeholder already built into the
mock-up.
That runs on a device many of us will give many different PowerPoint presentations in our careers. Lives
pre-built templates make things easier by letting us fill in placeholder instead of building a presentation
from scratch, but even so making completely new presentations over and over can get tedious fast
sometimes slides from one presentation can be easily reused in another.
Business info graphics, PowerPoint keynote google slides-preview (Image Credit- Infographic)
Let’s look at how to do just that it’s as easy as copying and pasting from one presentation into another. I’m
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working on a new PowerPoint presentation here and as you can see this is an introduction to my fictional
company. I’ve put a lot of work into this. I think it looks great, but as you can see all. We have here is text
and images. Now want to add an infographic showing where my team is located around the globe.
The presentation doesn’t have a pre-built slide template for that. I don’t have time to build one from
scratch. Luckily, I remember making a similar chart in a past presentation. We want to take that slide and
move it to our new presentation. Here, the first thing I need to do is locate the slide or slides I want to copy
from the old presentation.
Then, I’ll jump back to my new presentation my next step is to decide exactly where I want to paste the
infographic slide looking at my options here on the left side. I think it would fit perfectly between the slides
called who we are and what we do. I’ll click once in the empty space between the two slides.
The layout stays the same, but the colours match the theme of the new presentation in many cases. This is
great, but let’s suppose that I want to paste the slide in, but maintain its original colours. To do that, I’ll click
on the copy dropdown in the corner of the new slide thumbnail. You’ll see this pop-up called paste option
now by default PowerPoint use.
Right in this case things look perfect, but sometimes you may need to rearrange the slide. Just by clicking
and dragging content placeholders back into their original positions. As, you can see copying and pasting
slides between templates is a wonderful time saving technique that keeps you from doing the same word
twice you.
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Skilled speakers have a knack for reading the energy of the room and adjusting their presentation on the fly. (Image source:
Envato Elements.)
When the actual day arrives, there are only a few final power point presentation tips and guidelines to keep
in mind:
Ready Room
Every presentation room has a temperature. It is your job as a speaker to gauge this and tailor your
presentation to it.
Here is a great example. Sorting is coming to a company, and you are asked to talk to the audience. Even if
the audience is not personally affected by the tasks, you have to consider the overall morale of the workforce.
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Don’t forget that PowerPoint templates are infinitely customizable and serve as design tips inside a PPTX file.
Most importantly, focus on what you can do to improve your presentation. There is nothing important that
we have to address. Here are some PowerPoint presentation tips and tricks to help avoid misrepresentation.
Don’t be afraid
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Top pros use mindfulness to conquer fears and deliver a good PowerPoint presentation every time. (Image source: Envato
Elements.)
The fear of public speaking is a real one. Many beginners think that if they are feeling nervous that a
presentation will not succeed well. This may cause them to cancel the presentation.
Many of the best PowerPoint tricks do not use the application at all! Here is a tip from expert Sandra
Zimmer, who leads the Self-Expression Center on conquering her fears before going on stage.
If you feel that public speaking apprehension is not normal, you can never make your award-winning
presentation. Therefore, do not be afraid and accept that it is part of the process!
Reading from your paper or screen also feels like you are not ready. Many do this, but none should. As a
general rule, you should only present a few things that you know well and miss the main points, at least at
most.
The best way to see that to make a good presentation PPT is to start with designs from others. This means
using a template, but that does not mean you cannot customize them!
Conclusion,
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Too wrapped up with the presentation to teach you how to build your PowerPoint presentation for your
business. As we all know “Practice makes all Perfects!”. Do repeat this practice and get master in it.
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