15+ PowerPoint Tips & Tricks for make Professional Business Presentation
PowerPoint is most famous software from Microsoft to make modern, Dynamic and Attractive slide show or presentations. there some tips and tricks to make your presentations more professional and attractive because When you are going before customers or team members, how you present can be almost as important as what you say.
1. Always try to make your visual information minimum to remember it easily .
2. Use guides to line up objects : In PowerPoint 2000, choose VIEW » GUIDES. (In PowerPoint 2002, choose VIEW » GRID AND GUIDES.) To add a guide, press the CTRL key and drag a guide onto the workspace. To delete a guide, drag it to the horizontal or vertical ruler.
3. Align objects perfectly: For a professional-looking layout, make sure your objects line up. Select two or more objects and from the Draw toolbar, choose Align or Distribute. Select one of the alignment options.
4. Create your own templates: Try to create your own templates if possible . When you’ve created a presentation that you can reuse in modified form, save it as a template. Choose FILE » SAVE AS. Choose Design Template (*.pot) from the Save as Type drop-down list and click Save. Now is easy to start new presentations with your saved templates.
5.Reduce the text margins: Reduce the text margins to get more into a text message in your presentation . Right-click the placeholder or autoshape and choose FORMAT » PLACEHOLDER or FORMAT » AUTOSHAPE. Click the Text Box tab. In the Internal Margin section reduce the numbers for the left, right, top and bottom margins. For placeholders with no visible border, set the margins to zero. Click OK.
6. Align text at a decimal point: If you have a list of dollars and cents, for instance, to line them up, use a decimal tab. Select the text placeholder and click the tab button at the far left of its ruler until the tab symbol with a dot appears. (Choose VIEW » RULER if the ruler isn’t visible.) Press the TAB key in front of the text you want to align.
7. Use Microsoft Producer: Use Microsoft Producer, a free download, to combine and synchronize a presentation that includes PowerPoint slides, video, audio and still images. Go to microsoft.com. Choose PowerPoint as the product and check Add-ins and Extras.
8.Widen the bars in a bar chart for readability : Widen your bars chart to easily readability . Double-click on the chart to activate it, then double-click on the bars to select them all. In the Format Data Series dialog box, click the Options tab and reduce the Gap Width. Click OK.
9. Format realistic shadows : Add proper angle shadow to your object to creates a sense of depth. to make your object realistic change their color, size or direction . Select the object, click Shadow Style on the Draw toolbar, then choose Shadow Settings. In the Shadow Settings toolbar, you can change the shadow’s color and nudge the shadow in any direction
10. Remove Sound icons from your slides: If you insert a sound, for example, PowerPoint places a sound icon on the slide. If you choose to play the sound automatically, you won’t need the icon. Just drag it off the slide and it won’t appear in Slide Show view.