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What is a Slide Show ?

PowerPoint will allow you to run your slide show on your computer or as a 35mm slides or overheads projector transparencies.

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Your slides should summarise the key points. They should not become the script for your speech.

Try and have one slide for every two to five minutes of your presentation.

The best first slide to have in a presentation is one that captures the audience's attention. Try a provocative statement, a rhetorical question or an outrageous statement.

Your presentation should present solutions to real problems.

(Slide Show > View Show)

(Slide Show > Set Up Show)

Hidden Slides

It is possible to hide a slide when giving a slide show.

Select the slide in Slide Sorted view and select (Tools > Hide Slide).

When you run your slide show this slide will be skipped.

When a hidden slide is next in line a large asterisk will appear in the slide window near the bottom right corner.

You can display the hidden slide by clicking on the asterisk.

You may have to move the mouse slightly if the asterisk does not appear.

It is possible to insert some background sound for your slide show.

Select (Insert > Movies) and select (Sounds > Play CD Audio track).

You can hide slides you do not want to show in a slide show. Tools > Hide Slide. Be sure you are in slide sorter view. When a hidden slide is next in line an asterisk appears in the slide window (bottom-right corner). Just click on the asterisk to display the slide (or press H). You may have to move the mouse slightly to make the asterisk appear.

Remember you can align and distribute your objects easily

If you are showing a slide show you may want to run it from an icon on your desktop.

Open Windows Explorer and find the file.

Use the right mouse button and create a shortcut to the file and add it to your desktop.

You can then right mouse click the shortcut icon and choose "Show"

This will run the slide show and then close the file,

Display the slide show help when in a slide show- useful shortcut keys

You can temporarily turn the screen black during a slide show by pressing "B".

You can pause with a with screen by pressing "W". To resume press again

You can end the slide show at any point by pressing Escape

A transition is a special effect use to introduce a slide during a slide show. You can rehearse the transition timings

When you are doing your slide show you can hide slides Slideshow / Hide slide. Curved lines scribbles, freeform lines, 3D4 effects

Adding a 3d effect – select the object and hit the 3D button on the drawing toolbar

To enhance your animations set the timings between slides to zero

When you activate the Custom Animation dialog box the items listed refer to the original objects. To animate an object, select it. You could have moving charts – just ungroup them and convert them to objects.

Zooming – You can “Zoom out from screen”. Note there is a size at which the animation will fail.

Manual Animation

You can automate almost everything although you may prefer to initiate some action manually. The problem with using all automatic animation you are tied to the timing of the slide show. When allowing some flexible time for questions and comments you will want to able to trigger these manually. Right click the object. Choose Custom Animation > Effect tab. Click on timings and select the Animate and On Mouse Click button.

Slide Show / Presentation Confusion

Each slide show is a presentation but not every presentation is a slide show.

Each presentation could be running as a slide show or in "edit" mode, a slide show is a "running" presentation.

Things to Remember

You can press (Esc) at any time during a slide show to cancel it.

Make sure that everyone in the room can read the slides easily. Avoid putting too much text on any one slide.