January 2007
Beginner
320 pages
7h 19m
English
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Chapter 7. Delivering Presentations
Setting Up a Slideshow
Slideshows for Multiple Audiences
Presenting Your Slideshow
Creating PowerPoint Shows
Emailing Your Presentation
Packaging Presentations for CD
Optimizing Presentations
In the old days, giving a powerpoint presentation almost always meant connecting your laptop to a computer projector. You'd stand in front of a live audience and use a remote control to click through each slide while you explained each of your points in detail. You can still give a "stand and deliver" presentation, but today you can also:
Package your presentation for delivery on CD. This option is ideal for interactive, audience-paced presentations like tutorials or continuously running kiosk presentations.
Email the presentation to your audience.
This chapter covers both of these presentation delivery options. It also shows you how to optimize your PowerPoint presentation file to make running it and passing it around easier.
Note
You can also convert your presentation to a Web page, complete with clickable links that viewers can use to navigate your slideshow and even jump to other documents or Web sites. For more on these and other advanced features, see PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly).
Setting Up a Slideshow
After you've put together your slideshow—created slides, added text and graphics, and so on—you have to give PowerPoint a few instructions on how it should display the slideshow when it's show time. Say you're creating a slideshow ...
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