Chapter 8. Enhancing Your 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 predesigned slide layouts. A slide's layout determines how the title, text, graphics, and other visual elements are positioned in a slide. You are not compelled to use existing layouts all the time. You can create your own custom layouts and save them to reuse in other presentations.

In addition to selecting the slide layout, you can apply themes to your slides. A theme is a set of colors, fonts, placeholder positions, ...

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