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There are a lot of things that can go wrong when you're a presenter (or when you are supporting someone else's presentation). This site is going to try to help you break Murphy's Law so Murphy's Law can't break you.
Lisa Lindgren, a fellow member of the InfoComm Presentations Council and Publisher of PresentationXpert, was kind enough to share a story about how PowerPoint 2007 recently foiled Murphy’s Law. Lisa reminds us of some important best practices and I have an observation or two of my ow
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1 year ago
Here's my favourite trick:
Key in a number and hit enter.
You jump straight to the desired slide, without having to sift through the right-click menu, or leaving the presentation altogether.
Of course, this does require you to know which slide has which number, but that you can find out while preparing.
1 year ago
That's a great trick. It always amazes me how few people know that one.
My favorite trick is setting a lines height to 0 to make it perfectly horizontal. That's a good one for everyone stuck fixing up the slides of someone who didn't know to hold down the Shift key while drawing the line in the first place.