Chapter 7. Express Yourself Through Presentations

Whatever your presentation's message, PowerPoint is designed to enable you to convey it in the most interesting way possible. To that end, the program offers countless features for enhancing your presentation visually.

When you create a presentation, PowerPoint enables you to select from several pre-designed slide layouts as well as create your own custom layouts. (A slide's layout determines how the title, text, graphics, and other visual elements appear.)

In addition to selecting the slide layout, you can apply themes to your slides. A theme is a set of colors, fonts, placeholder positions, graphic elements, backgrounds, effects, and other formatting attributes. Applying a theme enables you to ...

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