Overview
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Covers PowerPoint technical tips plus presentation skills.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Adding white space
- Applying a transition
- Reducing the text
- Selecting objects with ease
- Opening with Show
- What's your point?
- Getting in their heads
- What's in it for them?
- Piecing it together
- Holding their hands
- Understanding the importance of design
- Using color and fonts
- Maintaining consistency
- Using photographs
- Sharing data with charts
- Making your data meaningful
- Using diagrams and SmartArt
- Breaking the slide into sections
- Fine-tuning shapes and text boxes
- Enhancing text boxes
- Customizing layouts and templates
- Building your own layouts
- Animating bullets
- Animating photos
- Animating other objects
- Inserting music and other audio elements
- Taking control
- Setting display resolution and improving clarity
- Including hidden slides and custom shows
- Utilizing speaker notes
- Using Presenter view
- Creating handouts
- Planning the program
- Using the presenter checklist
- Knowing what to do when things go wrong
- Sharing your message
- Making the motions
- Questions and answers
- Reading your audience
- Dealing with audience distractions
- Setting up and tearing down
- During the show
- Creating a photo slideshow
- Letting the slideshow be the star
- Sharing with your audience
- Keyboard and mouse tricks
- The good, the bad, and the ugly: A recap
- Additional resources
