PowerPoint Tip: How Many Features Do You Need To Know? Recently we had a family picture taken on my wife’s side of the family. We assembled at her parent’s house and a photographer we know, Larry, came to take the picture outside. Everything went exceedingly well – the weather was perfect and smiles abounded. After…
Tag: 2007
Use a map to show geographic relationships; Issue #138 July 10, 2007
PowerPoint Tip – Why Not Use a Map? If you have geographic based data to present, it is important to organize it into a logical manner for the audience. Usually this means organizing it left to right in west to east order so that the data on the slide is the same order as the…
Issue #137 June 26, 2007
PowerPoint Tip – Research on Slide Titles In the newspaper recently I saw a short mention that a study was done recently that showed that a sentence as a title of a PowerPoint slide was found to be more effective. So I did the research and found the paper that this report was based on.…
Four tips to make it easier when collaborating on the creation of a presentation; Issue #136 June 12, 2007
PowerPoint Tip – Collaborating on Presentations In my consulting work, I get a chance to collaborate on developing presentations with people in many different geographic locations. Sometimes it is face-to-face and other times it is done virtually. Collaborating on presentations instead of doing it yourself is becoming more common. Today I have some tips for…
Capture part of a PDF document for use on your PowerPoint slide; Issue #135 May 29, 2007
PowerPoint Tip – Use PDF Capture Tool I’ve worked with two clients recently who produce a lot of material in Adobe’s PDF format for marketing purposes. This is quite common today as more companies switch from printed materials to online versions that can be printed as needed, downloaded from a web site or e-mailed. Marketing…
Issue #134 May 15, 2007
PowerPoint Tip – Use Gantt chart for Timelines In a number of presentations that I have worked on for clients they want to show a timeline of events as a background for their comments. It may be developments in the industry, evolution of a competitive landscape or as simple as external world events that influence…
Issue #133 May 1, 2007
PowerPoint Tip – Beyond Templates Many of you will be familiar with the idea of using a template to give your slides a common look. A Master Slide sets the background color, text colors and fonts and any branding on the slide. This way, every slide has a consistent look and the audience is not…
Issue #132 April 17, 2007
PowerPoint Tip – Finish Strong, Not Long You have heard it said many times that the most important parts of your presentation are the start and the end. Presenters spend time thinking about how to introduce their topic and engage the audience. Certainly important to do. But too many times presenters end their presentation weakly,…
Issue #131 April 3, 2007
PowerPoint Tip – Color Contrast Calculator One of the most common audience complaints about PowerPoint slides is that the presenter picked colors that don’t have enough contrast. This means that text, lines, shapes or graphs can’t be seen well on the slide and the message is negatively affected. If you don’t have a background in…
Issue #130 March 20, 2007
PowerPoint Tip – Ideas for More Visuals I have been talking recently to more and more clients about how to get away from text or number filled presentation slides and move towards using visuals to represent the ideas we are sharing. This ranges from sales staff to finance professionals to admin assistants. Today’s tip is…