5 Tips Creating Perfect Presentations using your Computer

• Prepare for Light & Dark
• Simply Sending Presentations
• Create Beautiful Videos
• Easy Reading
• The Most Useful Presentation Tool

Using your computer you can assemble together images, text, sound, video clips to make digital keepsakes of special events, for your family and friends. For teachers to easily prepare compelling information that is attractive to present is so useful. Businesses too, need to demonstrate their products and services. Computers make presenting information easy. So start now or sharpen up your presentation skills with these tips.

Prepare for Light & Dark

Ensure your PowerPoint presentation looks its best wherever it is shown by doing two versions of it. Create one version of your presentation with a dark background and light fonts. Create a second version of with a light background and dark fonts.

Lighting at various locations can be different. If there is too much light then dark backgrounds become washed out and light fonts are difficult to read.

Simply Sending Presentations

It is easy to send your PowerPoint presentation by email. Save your presentation as a 'Slide Show', so the person who received it can open it easily.

To do this, on the 'Office Button' or 'File' menu, click on 'Save As'. In the 'Save dialog box', select 'PowerPoint Show' (.pps) from the 'Save As Type' dropdown list.

Sending your presentation by CD is easy; simply use the 'Package for CD' feature in PowerPoint. This feature will set up your presentation (including linked files) on a CD so that the slide show will run correctly for any recipient.

It even adds a PowerPoint viewer so that the recipient's computer doesn't need PowerPoint to run the show.

Create Beautiful Videos

Create the perfect video of a family occasion, an upcoming event as part of your publicity campaign, or for a product or service you’re launching. Animoto.com enables you to produce beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music easily.

Easy Reading

Always make sure your presentation will be easy to read for those at the back of the room. The font, Lucida Console, 14 to 18 point and bold, is the most legible font on screen.

If you are using your laptop connected to a projector or large screen to do your presentation, you will find a Microsoft Windows addin called ‘ZoomIt’ very handy. It is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that includes application demonstrations.

The Most Useful Presentation Tool

Anyone who makes presentations should use a wireless presenter mouse. This can be used up to 10 metres from your laptop. It does everything a regular computer mouse does, but also acts as a slide presenter, laser pointer, and media remote control. It's an all-in-one super tool for the office, road, and home. It puts you in control of your presentations.

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