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The flipped presentation: A different way to present and create handouts

June 22, 2019 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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Let’s say that you’re giving a presentation that requires you to provide a lot of detailed information to your audience. Perhaps you’re Training supervisors about vacation, sick day, and leave of absence policies Doing a project update that requires you to explain the data you collected during your research Providing employees with a list of […]

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Filed Under: Content, Delivery, Design principles Tagged With: details, handouts, Notes page, notes pane, technical presentations

Create presentation handouts using Notes pages

July 8, 2018 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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I recommend using the Tell ‘n’ ShowSM method for your slides. That means putting a slide title on each slide that tells the point and adding an image, diagram, chart, etc. to show the point. You DON’T put everything you say on the slide. I’m not the slide police and I vary from this method […]

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Handouts for data-heavy presentations

March 16, 2015 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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Not all presentations can be full of photos. Sometimes, you need to present data — lots of it. While I do think that presenters sometimes dump more than necessary on their audience, consider this scenario. The setting You’re a market research associate. A product marketing manager asks you to research demographics for people in the […]

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Create handouts for data-heavy decision meetings

January 11, 2015 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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One of the most common uses of PowerPoint is to present data that will be used to make a decision at a meeting. A good example is a market research team presenting to marketing executives. Some of the important issues in a meeting like this are to: Tailor the presentation to the audience’s level of […]

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Filed Under: Content, Design principles Tagged With: data, handouts, meetings, Send to Word

Compress a presentation handout

July 16, 2012 by Ellen Finkelstein 6 Comments

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Many people need to create electronic handouts that are of a reasonable file size. A reader sent me this question: I need to use the PowerPoint handouts-for-Word feature to send slide pictures to my translator overseas. Imagine my horror to find that a 4MB PowerPoint file blows-out to a 66 MB Word file. Of course […]

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