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Message structure and presentation creation
Define audience, objective and call to action and create a clear narrative outline.
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- Define audience, objective and call to action
- Create a clear narrative outline
- Use slide layouts
- Prioritize key ideas and evidence
- Reduce unnecessary text
- Prepare an easy-to-maintain presentation
Themes, Slide Master and visual identity
Understand themes, masters and layouts and create theme colours and fonts.
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- Understand themes, masters and layouts
- Create theme colours and fonts
- Modify the Slide Master
- Build corporate layouts
- Manage logos, footers and numbering
- Save a reusable template
Text, alignment and composition
Create typographic hierarchy and align and distribute objects precisely.
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- Create typographic hierarchy
- Align and distribute objects precisely
- Use guides, grids and Selection pane
- Work with shapes and text boxes
- Create readable lists
- Maintain consistency, contrast and accessibility
Images, icons and visual storytelling
Choose images suited to the message and crop, remove backgrounds and compress.
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- Choose images suited to the message
- Crop, remove backgrounds and compress
- Use icons and SVG illustrations
- Create compositions with transparency
- Apply consistent treatments
- Respect usage rights and alt text
Data, tables and charts
Simplify a table for presentation and choose the right chart type.
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- Simplify a table for presentation
- Choose the right chart type
- Modify series, axes and labels
- Link or embed Excel data
- Highlight the main message
- Check accuracy and readability
Purposeful animations and transitions
Decide when to animate or not and use the animation pane.
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- Decide when to animate or not
- Use the Animation pane
- Set order, duration and triggers
- Create explanatory sequences
- Use Morph in a controlled way
- Avoid distracting effects
Present with impact and confidence
Prepare notes and Presenter View and rehearse pacing and transitions.
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- Prepare notes and Presenter View
- Rehearse pacing and transitions
- Use pointer, zoom and navigation
- Handle questions and interruptions
- Adapt a hybrid or virtual presentation
- Prepare a technical backup
Collaboration, governance and libraries
Co-author and comment in Microsoft 365 and compare and reuse slides.
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- Co-author and comment in Microsoft 365
- Compare and reuse slides
- Create a slide library
- Manage versions, approvals and owners
- Control fonts, media and links
- Establish brand rules
Interactive and multimedia presentations
Create buttons, links and nonlinear navigation and insert reliable video and audio.
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- Create buttons, links and nonlinear navigation
- Insert reliable video and audio
- Configure triggers and kiosk mode
- Create sections and Summary Zoom
- Add captions and transcription
- Test on presentation equipment
Advanced production, export and quality control
Create complex modular templates and automate repetitive tasks with vba or scripts.
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- Create complex modular templates
- Automate repetitive tasks with VBA or scripts
- Inspect compatibility and accessibility
- Optimize file size, fonts and media
- Export to PDF, video and images
- Prepare a documented team handoff