Chapter 3. Creating Dynamic Visuals

The vast majority of PowerPoint presentations are used for speaker support. In Chapter 1, “Planning an Effective Presentation,” we discussed the different ways we can craft a talk to appeal to different senses, and hopefully you now have a better idea of the types of messages that will be most effective.

But we still want to use PowerPoint and other tools to enhance this message, and the most dramatic impact we can have is probably visual.

Thinking Ahead

As we work with the visual examples in this chapter, you may want to keep extra copies of the files handy to continue to work with them in the coming chapters; specifically, although we will create static images in this part, in Chapter 4, “Secrets of Animation ...

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