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3 ways to simplify your PowerPoint presentations

Posted by max On December - 10 - 2008

1. Be consistent on all pages by using the Master View

If you’re tired of typing the date, presentation title, or page number on every page in your presentation—or changing bullet styles and indentations—listen up. PowerPoint will do this for you! The Master View feature allows you to enter information once on either the title page or an interior slide page. Once entered, the information is used consistently throughout the presentation, and remains until you change it.

2. Reinforce your message with automated charts and graphs

You’ve probably seen presenters who have very cool graphs and charts within their presentation. You can import these from other programs such as Microsoft Office Excel but did you know you can perk up your slides without importing from those programs?

People retain information in different ways-by reading text, by seeing graphical representations, and by listening to what you say. So, if you want your audience to really remember your message, it’s important to learn to create at least simple charts or graphs in PowerPoint. With the automated formats it provides, you have literally dozens of ways to build a unique presentation and make your message memorable.

To insert a chart or graph in your presentation:

Go to the Insert menu, and click Chart. PowerPoint will drop in a preformatted basic chart for you. If you like the format it chose, simply type in the text you need in the datasheet box provided for vertical and horizontal axis. Click anywhere on the slide and your chart will appear on the slide with your information.

3. Jump easily between pages

If you didn’t know how to use a hyperlink, you wouldn’t be reading this online article. You may already use hyperlinks for quick and easy access to the Web if you are connected to the Internet while making your presentation. Too often, however, a cool way to use hyperlinks within a presentation is overlooked. It happens when presenters include additional information at the back of a presentation as “back up” slides and then never refer to them because it’s too difficult to navigate to the end and return to the main portion of the presentation. But if the information is important enough to reference in back up, why ignore it?

With PowerPoint hyperlinks, you don’t have to because it’s easy to jump between slides.

source: Microsoft

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