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 […]
Create handouts for data-heavy decision meetings
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 […]
The flipped presentation
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 […]
Compress a presentation handout
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 […]
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. Click […]