Author: Dave Paradi

PowerPoint Tip – Web Presentation Delivery Tips Last issue I shared some tips for doing presentations remotely. This time I want to focus on tips for a presentation delivery method that is gaining momentum quickly – the web presentation or sometimes called a webinar. I have held these and now have a web meeting facility…

PowerPoint Tip – Remote Presentation Delivery tips I define a remote presentation as one where you send your slide file to your audience in advance of your presentation and they view and control your slides on their own computer as they listen to you on the telephone. This is different than a webinar where the…

PowerPoint Tip – Results of Presentation Delivery Survey Last month I conducted a survey on how presenters deliver their PowerPoint presentations. Thank you to the 250 people who participated. I have analyzed the numeric data and written comments and concluded the following. Both the numerical and written data reinforce trends that I have seen emerge…

PowerPoint Tip – Research on Effective Presentations Late last year I was contacted by the membership chair of the Infocomm International Presentations Council because she had seen my work and thought I could contribute to their group. Infocomm International is the world-wide trade association for the A/V industry. Last month I joined the council and…

PowerPoint Tip – Vertical Text Sometimes on a diagram or graph you will need to make text go vertical instead of the default horizontal direction. Let’s look at how you can do that. There would be two scenarios that you might have. First, you want to have simple text go vertical instead of horizontal –…

PPT – Search Templates for great images In two weeks I’ll be doing my web tutorial on Using Digital Photos and one of the topics I’ll be covering is where you can find photos on the web. Microsoft has a large number of photos on their Office Online web site, but one of the undiscovered…

PPT – Saving Slides as Pictures Sometimes we get a PowerPoint slide show from a friend or colleague and it contains a full slide sized photo that we would love to use on one of our slides or as a graphic for another purpose. If we get permission to use it (you always need to…

PPT – Picture File Format Photos are becoming a more important part of our presentations. In order to connect emotionally, photos are so much more effective than plain text. So if you are going to use photos, what file format should you use? There are many formats out there, including TIF (high quality, allows transparency,…

PPT – Inserting Pictures Is there a “correct” way to insert a picture on a PowerPoint(R) slide? Yes, there actually is. First, let me share the incorrect way – unfortunately this is the way that far too many people use. The wrong way to insert a picture on a slide is to copy and paste…

1. PPT – Version Issues Many readers have told me that they create their presentations on one computer and present from another – either a colleague’s laptop or a PC connected to the projector in a conference room. When taking your carefully crafted presentation to a different computer, you can have all your work be…