The topics in the PowerPoint Professional Presentations category focus on the features of PowerPoint that give your presentation a professional make-over. The aim is to ensure you gain a good grounding in the more advanced skills needed to create and present a professional on-screen presentation.
I’m loving using the new Design Ideas slide designs in PowerPoint. However, I found myself wanting to make changes to it and it took a bit of working out before I managed to do it. Continue Reading
If you would like your audience handouts to have a professional look and conform to your organisation’s brand, consider importing your presentation into Word where you can then including additional text like a cover page, your contact details, and your company logo.
Audience hand-outs can easily be printed directly from PowerPoint simply by navigating to the File tab and then to Print. From the Settings options you can change from printing “Full Page Slides” to Handouts. From the Handouts gallery you can choose the layout required.
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In this post I want to share with you how to update an existing presentation with your new company template.
I recently ran a PowerPoint course for a Sales Team. One of the biggest challenges they had was updating their existing presentations (which were large and extremely comprehensive) to the new company template. Their organisation had recently re-branded and they had been asked to ensure ALL presentations to clients were using the new template.
Before I arrived it had been a cutting and pasting frenzy. Apparently it had been taking forever and had caused a few people to become very stressed.
Within a few minutes I had them laughing at how easy it was. Continue Reading
PROBLEM: wasting time trying to cover up graphics that are pulled through from the Design template and displayed on individual slides.
SOLUTION: learn how to hide background graphics in PowerPoint.
PROBLEM: wasting time crafting multiple copies of the same presentation for different audiences and then having to make updates and edits to ALL copies (ahhhhh).
SOLUTION: create multiple presentations from the one PowerPoint file.
PROBLEM: Wasting time creating multiple copies of the same chart so that the audience sees each data series introduced individually. For example, data for Week 1 is displayed on one slide then the data for week 2 is added on the next slide…and so on.
SOLUTION: quickly add animation to a Chart in PowerPoint. Use animation to display elements as required. Read more
PROBLEM: boring on-screen PowerPoint presentations!!
SOLUTION: make a PowerPoint presentation interactive. Excellent for trade show presos and presentations that your audience will view at their desk.
PROBLEM: wasting time (and becoming highly frustrated) when trying to select a picture or object in PowerPoint. Sometimes it seems the pic is underneath others and therefore out of reach.
SOLUTION: Learn how to work with the Selection Pane in PowerPoint. Read more
If you present using PowerPoint you will love these Microsoft PowerPoint shortcut keys for running a presentation.
Even if you create presentations for other people share these tips with them. They will love you for it!
I find these super useful, especially if there isn’t a mouse available. I found them a life-saver when I was running a seminar for a large corporate and as I stood at the podium in front of a large audience I realised their IT team had set me up a keyboard but no mouse!
I’ve had a few requests for help with animation in PowerPoint 2010 and 2013. It seems that the options on the new Animations tab are causing a bit of head scratching. I’ve created a wee tutorial to explain how to add an animation, change the display options and add multiple animations to a single object. Read more
