Insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide

You can insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide so that you can use Excel while in Slide Show view.

There are other ways to get Excel data onto a slide, so why would you want an active Excel spreadsheet? Let’s say that you’re presenting some results of your financial analysis and your [...]

How to use your remote to switch to another presentation in PowerPoint 2007 & 2010

A friend asked me, “How can I link to another presentation and use my remote to get to that presentation?”

Here’s the problem. You can easily link any shape to another presentation by hyperlinking it. I have instructions in my tip, “Link to other presentations and return to the original presentation.”

But to activate [...]

Harness the back channel during your presentations

I presented at the Outstanding Presentations Workshop on “Present Interactively–Your Audience Expects It!”

What is the back channel?

One of my topics was the back channel. The back channel is what your audience is saying behind your back, or perhaps at the back of the room. These days, they usually make their comments using [...]

Keep your screen alive during presentations to avoid embarrassing hibernation mode

Have you ever started a presentation, gotten into a discussion with your audience, and found that your laptop went into hibernation because you stopped moving the mouse? It has happened to me and it’s embarrassing!

It looks as dead as a doornail!

Mouse Jiggler to the rescue!

Enter Mouse [...]

Cliff Atkinson presents on “How to let go of notes and speak from the heart”

At the 2nd session of Outstanding Presentations Workshop, Cliff Atkinson presented on “Speaking from Presence: How to let go of notes and speak from the heart.”

Some of the points he made:

Research shows that people make decisions emotionally and back them up with data Emotion isn’t on the slide; it’s in your heart [...]

3 things you must avoid when delivering a presentation to a live audience

You’ve created your presentation and now is the time — you’re standing up in front of your audience. What do you need to know to make your presentation a success?

You need to know 3 things that the audience hates and how to avoid them.

1. Reading the slides

If you put too much [...]

How to store your presentation in the cloud–for embedding, collaboration, or marketing

Storing a presentation in the cloud, that is, in a Web-based location, has great advantages:

It’s an off-site backup You can use Embed code to embed the presentation on your website or blog You can share the link with colleagues for collaboration or potential customers for marketing In this article, I’ll show you [...]

Why you need to get your presentations on the Internet–and how

Get your presentation on the Web? Why and how?

I’ve come up with 4 reasons to put your presentations on the Internet and 6 ways to do it.

Why #1–as a handout for your audience at a live presentation

Let’s say you’ve given your presentation live and–

Some important audience members couldn’t attend People [...]

Free PowerPoint alternatives–Microsoft Office Web Apps

PowerPoint is the standard for slide show software, but what if you can’t afford it?

There are many free PowerPoint alternatives available either as a download or as a web-based service. This will be a multi-part blog post covering the following products (or more):

PowerPoint Online (Microsoft Office Web Apps) ZohoShow Google Docs OpenOffice.org [...]

Create a PowerPoint handout from selected slides

A subscriber ask me how she could create a printed handout that contains only some of the slides in the presentation. She wanted to create a handout with 3 slides per page. Here are the steps:

For PowerPoint 2010 Choose File> Print In the Settings area, the first item will say Print All Slides. [...]