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Office 2013 Digital Classroom
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Office 2013 Digital Classroom

by Walter Holland, AGI Creative Team
August 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
672 pages
14h 31m
English
Wiley
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PowerPoint Lesson 6: Delivering Your Presentation

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The best slide design in the world, with the slickest animations, can still fall flat when you reach the podium. This lesson introduces tools to improve the flow and pacing of your presentation, and to help you build a slide deck to support your talk, rather than the other way around.

What you’ll learn in this lesson:

  • Mastering PowerPoint’s suite of presentation tools
  • Rehearsing, recording, and automating your presentation
  • Configuring your slide deck for both live talks and kiosks
  • Laying out speaker notes and audience handouts
  • Sharing slide decks and deliver presentations online

Starting up

You will work with files from the PPT06lessons folder. Make sure that you have loaded the OfficeLessons folder onto your hard drive from www.digitalclassroombooks.com/Office2013. If you need further instructions, see “Loading lesson files” in the Starting up section of this book.

Presentations are performances

The point of your slide deck is to present it; your slides don’t work unless they work for an audience. Regularly previewing and practicing your presentation while building your slide deck will give you a clear sense of whether the slides form an effective whole, and rehearsing will make for a much smoother and more confident presentation, too.

Your workflow should build toward an outstanding talk, not perfect slides. Fortunately, ...

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