Talkin' Tech page provides
guidelines for:
Recommended PowerPoint
Design Techniques
Summary Slides to Show
Agenda
Navigate Your
Presentation with Keyboard Shortcuts
Deliver Your PowerPoint Presentation over the Web
Email Your PowerPoint
Handouts
Microsoft PowerPoint is a popular
presentation graphics program that is
widely utilized by businesspeople,
educators and trainers. As an excellent
graphical tool, PowerPoint can enhance
your presentation with graphs, pictures
and animations. However, many people
complain that a PowerPoint presentation
can detract from the overall
presentation and not let the audience
focus on the presenter. For this
reason, we recommend these techniques
and tools.
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Recommended
PowerPoint Design Techniques
Below is an example of slide of that does not use recommended
PowerPoint Design Techniques. Please note that the slide is
hard to read and the graphics are overbearing.
More information
with PowerPoint Pointers:
Pointers for Successful PowerPoint Presentations
Presentation Pointers
Vicki Blackwell's PowerPoint Pointers
Creating a Summary Slide
Need an
introduction, agenda or conclusion for
your PowerPoint presentation. PowerPoint
provides a quick method of adding a
Summary Slide to your existing
presentation. The slide can then be
renamed Introduction or Agenda, or you
can copy it to the end of your
presentation and rename it Conclusion or
Review.
To create a summary slide from the
titles of other slides:
- Open the completed presentation you want to
add a summary slide to.
- On the
View menu, click
Slide Sorter.
- In slide sorter
view, select the slides with the titles you want to use. To
select multiple slides, hold down
Ctrl and click the slides you
want. (Be sure to select the slides that will best summarize
your presentation.)
- On the
Slide Sorter
toolbar, click Summary Slide.
- A new slide, titled "Summary Slide," with
bulleted titles from the selected slides, appears in front of
the first selected slide.
- Double-click
the new slide to edit it. You can change the title, edit
existing bullets, or add new
ones.
Navigate Your
Presentation with Keyboard Shortcuts
Your audience may
be annoyed watching you hunt for slide or fumble with PowerPoint.
Try these keyboard shortcuts to when navigating a presentation to
look like a presentation pro.
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PRESS |
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Advance to the next slide
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N, ENTER, PAGE DOWN, RIGHT ARROW,
DOWN ARROW, or the SPACEBAR (or click the mouse)
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Return to the previous slide |
P, PAGE UP, LEFT ARROW, UP ARROW,
or BACKSPACE
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End a slide show
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ESC or HYPHEN
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Stop or restart an automatic slide
show
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S or PLUS SIGN |
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Go to slide
<number>
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<number>+ENTER |
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Display a black screen, or return
to the slide show from a black screen
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B or PERIOD
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Display a white screen, or return
to the slide show from a white screen
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W or COMMA |
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Hide the pointer
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CTRL+H |
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Redisplay hidden pointer and/or
change the pointer to an arrow
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CTRL+A |
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Return to the first slide |
Both mouse buttons for 2 seconds
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Note: If at anytime you forget the Keyboard Shortcuts, press the F1
to display the Slide Show Help window.
Deliver
Your PowerPoint Presentation over the Web
You can save PowerPoint presentations as Web
pages for distribution to people who do not have the
PowerPoint Application by saving the file as a .mht file.
A .mht file can be opened in any web browser. To save your
PowerPoint presentation as a .mht file, follow these
instructions:
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Open the presentation you wish to save
as a web page.
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Select
File,
Save
As Web Page.
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Name the presentation and select a
location to save it to. In the “Save as Type” box, select
Single File Webpage.
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Click
Save.
Email Your PowerPoint
Handouts
 While
PowerPoint provides no direct way of
emailing handouts, you can send the Handouts to
Word, save them as a Word document and then email them as
attachments.
When
you have completed the design and content of your presentation,
select File, Send to, Microsoft Word from the
PowerPoint menu. Chose the option you prefer, make sure
Paste is selected and click OK.
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