2007 Microsoft® Office System Step by Step, Second Edition

Adapting a Presentation for Different Audiences

If you plan to deliver variations of the same presentation to different audiences, you should prepare one presentation containing all the slides you are likely to need for all the audiences. Then you can select slides from the presentation that are appropriate for a particular audience and group them as a custom slide show. When you need to deliver the presentation for that audience, you open the main presentation and show the subset of slides by choosing the custom slide show from a list.

For example, suppose you need to pitch an idea for a new product or service to both a team of project managers and a company’s executive team. Many of the slides would be the same for both groups, but the presentation ...