PowerSlide Solutions

09/10/2017

I sort of get where this writer is going with this, and most the points made are quite valid; so I think it is worth sharing (but be warned: it does need some Anglicising).

Janice Brown pressed the clicker and advanced to her second slide. She turned back to the audience and continued. "As you can see..." Janice was nervous. There were only about 25 people in front of her and this made her more jittery. She could see every wince, every uncomfortable shift, and

07/05/2017

I haven't posted anything for a while as there has not been much new or good advice doing the rounds recently; however, I think this article on bad advice is worth a read. Hope you agree.
Mike

Beware! Here comes a rant... I was reading an article on a respected website about presentation advice. The title sounded interesting, so I clicked. It announced "Presentation Advice from 20 Expert Presenters." This will be interesting, I thought. Can you imagine my shock and horror once

19/08/2016

Anybody who doesn't get nervous delivering a presentation to a room full of strangers should ignore this post. For the rest of us, I think it could prove useful. Just remember that even professional actors suffer from stage fright.

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30/10/2015

I don't 100% agree with some of the tips; but hey, I didn't write it! Nevertheless, it does contain a lot of good ideas. Enjoy...

Any person with basic computer skills can create professional-looking slides for their presentations if they adopt a strategy of audience first. The secret of great slide design isn’t merely an aptitude for design and years of training, though undeniably, both of those help. But if you don’t have th…

08/10/2015

By now, many people who view or deliver presentations know that using images instead of text gives your presentation more impact and makes it much more memorable; which is just what you want, isn't it? Using images as opposed to text sounds easy, but there are a few pitfalls that can trap the creator of the presentation; some of these are: a) finding an image that matches the subject, b) ensuring the image creates the appropriate impact, and c) ensuring that the images used are free of copyright restrictions, and also free of charge.

I now have access to several websites that provide high quality, free-to-use photos that will help me give your presentation the “oomph” that you want (and need).

14/05/2015

He did it his way, and it worked for him; now it's your turn.

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08/05/2015

If you've got to have text in your slides, get someone to check your spelling and grammar before it's too late!

Your welcome.

11/02/2015

This is something I've done a lot of over the years with very pleasing results; so I'm glad someone has gone to the bother of making a tutorial to guide others through the process. Hope you find it useful.

PowerPoint is a flexible tool. Here's a quick lesson on how you can use it as a basic photo editor.

06/01/2015

I've been looking for something worth sharing for some time now, but there was very little about. However, I have just come across this one: it makes some good points and in a way that is easily understood. Hope you agree.

I wrote this about four years ago, originally as an ebook. I figured the idea might spread and then the problem would go away--we'd no longer see thousands of hours wasted, every single day, by boring PowerPoint presentations filled with...

12/11/2014

I've known about, and applied the Rule of Thirds to photographs that I've taken for many years now, but I've never consciously applied it when formatting slides. However, after reading this article, I must go through some of my previous presentations and see if I have applied it subconsciously. (By the way: I think that first slide contains too much text!)

Keep your slides symmetrical and visually interesting. Here's everything you need to know about the "rule of thirds" as applied to PowerPoint design.

15/09/2014

In 1953 CinemaScope came out, so we've enjoyed widescreen movies since that date. Widescreen TV started to appear around 2000 (TV commercials had to be made in the widescreen format from 1 July 2000); and from around 2003 computer displays have gradually moved over to the widescreen format. (Sorry, but we need to get a bit technical here: prior to widescreen, TV & computer screens had an aspect ratio of 4:3 – widescreen displays have an aspect ratio of 16:9.)

I think everyone will agree that viewing things with a widescreen format is easier on the eye. So why are PowerPoint & Keynote presentations still being created in a 4:3 aspect ratio format? Maybe people just don’t realise that they can be created in a widescreen format. My old laptop uses MS Office PowerPoint 2007, and even that can produce a presentation in the modern widescreen (16:9) format.

Go on, give it a go; you know it makes sense! Just one piece of advice: do not distort/stretch your pictures to make them fit the new wider screen.