ADVANCED PRESENTATION SKILLS

CREATING AN EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION

1. Minimize. Keep slide counts to a minimum to maintain a clear message and keep the audience attentive.

2. Clarity. Avoid being fancy by using a font style that is easy to read.

3. Simplicity. Use bullets or short sentences. This is known as the 6x7 rule.

4. Visuals. Use graphics to help in your presentation but not too many distract the audience.

5. Consistency. Make your design uniform.

6. Contrast. Use light font on dark background or vice versa.

USING HYPERLINKS IN MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

1. Select an object or highlight a text.

2. Go to Insert - Hyperlinks under links category or use the shortcut key Ctrl + K. The Insert Hyperlink dialog box would appear.

LINK TO OPTIONS:

a. Existing File or Web Page - creates a hyperlink to website or a local file saved in your hard drive.

b. Place in This Document - creates a hyperlink that allows you to jump to a specific slide in your presentation.

c. Create a New Document - creates a hyperlink that once clicked, creates a new document on your specified location.

d. E-mail Address - creates hyperlink that opens Microsoft Outlook that automatically adds your specified recipient on a new email.

EMBEDDING AN EXCEL FILE TO YOUR SLIDE PRESENTATION

1. Go to Insert tab.

2. On the text group click on Object.

3. The Inser Object dialog box would appear.

OPTIONS:

Creates New - creates a new file from scratch

Create from File - creates a file from an existing file saved on your hard drive.