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As a presenter, you should not substitute yourself to the PowerPoint slides. PowerPoint is only a
support to your oral presentation. Still, the more comfortable you may be with PowerPoint tools, the more
time you can spend on developing the contents to deliver your speech. You will find here some tips which
may open your eyes on the capabilities of PowerPoint.

- How to convert PowerPoint Presentations to PDF just by saving from PowerPoint interface ?
- How to Advance Slides Automatically in PowerPoint ?
- How to Play a Sound across Multiple Slides in PowerPoint 2007 ?
- How to post your PowerPoint presentations to Facebook ?
- How to add an active excel worksheet into a PowerPoint presentation ?
- How to add dynamic PowerPoint slides in your Excel or WinWord document ?
- How to customize your slides and texts in PowerPoint with 3 D effects ?

How to convert PowerPoint Presentations to PDF just by saving from
PowerPoint interface ?


You may use such option to build your handouts. Handouts should be given at the end of the presentation : the
audience should concentrate on what is being said first!

1. Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click Save As.

2. In the Save as type box, select PDF.

3. Click Options and select one of the following options if useful :

    - Slides selection

    - Save multiple slides per page (documents)

    - Includes notes

How to Advance Slides Automatically in PowerPoint

Such tool can be useful for specific time of your presentation. It may help change the rhythm of your
presentation flow and help you give a short rest!  Be careful with effects as what counts is that the
audience remembers you and your speech.

1.  Click on the tab Animations in the Ribbon
2.  Select the slide on which to apply the automatic transition
3.  Check “Automatically After” on the right hand side and input how many minutes when Powerpoint
will move to the next slides.
4. You can also change the transition style and add sound for transition

How to Play a Sound across Multiple Slides in PowerPoint 2007

You could automate your introduction with automatic slide transitions and music playing. It would be like building
your little movie with the first PowerPoint slides.

1. Select the slide where you want to begin your audio track

2. Click the tab Insert -> Movies and Sounds -> Sound from File.

3. After you click OK, you can click Automatically.

4. Now click the sound icon to display the Options tab. Click on the tab, and set Play across slides for Play Sound.

How to post your PowerPoint presentations to Facebook

If you are looking to spread your presentation, you can load your presentations contents via social websites.
Slideshare now offers connection to Facebook and LinkedIn. Slideshare is a website to share PowerPoint
slideshows.  You’ll have to register to SlideShare first. Once you have an account, you can easily link it to both
Facebook and LinkedIn and begin sharing content across all three. Upload your ppt presentations to any
one — SlideShare, Facebook or LinkedIn and it will show up instantly on all three.

How to add an active excel worksheet into a PowerPoint presentation ?

You may need to create a PowerPoint presentation which you will periodically present ie month end reports.
You can link the PowerPoint slides to Excel documents. Whenever you will open the PowerPoint document, it will
request for update.

1. In PowerPoint, select Insert\Object
2. Go to the selection From the file and select the Microsoft Excel Worksheet
3. Click on Link if you want the document to update automatically

To manage the links, Click the Microsoft Office Button , point to Prepare, and then click Edit Links to Files.
You can decide to update manually the contents or leave the automatic update on.

When double clicking on the Power Point slide, the slide show will open.

How to add dynamic PowerPoint slides in your Excel or WinWord document ?

If your excel or word document stays the master document, you may consider inserting PowerPoint slides to
illustrate some tables or specific parts. That will definitely give extra credence to your documents. 

1. In Excel or Word, select Insert\Object
2. Go to the selection From the file and select the PowerPoint document
3. Click on Link if you want the document to update automatically

When double licking on the PowerPoint slide, the slide show will open.

To manage the links, Click the Microsoft Office Button , point to Prepare, and then click Edit Links to Files.
You can decide to update manually the contents or leave the automatic update on.

How to customize your slides and texts in PowerPoint ?

Surprise your audience visually with PowerPoint. You may add 3-D perspective, add objects with depth and
shadows to your slides. Combine your text with meaningful pictures for a memorable presentation.

Simply reproduce the slide given as example below to get acquainted with the extensive PowerPoint drawing
tools for text, images, background and templates formatting.

 

To reproduce the text effects on this slide, just do the following 10 steps :

1. Type your text on a blank slide

2. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Align Text Left.

3. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Character Spacing, and then click More Spacing.

4. In the Font dialog box, on the Character Spacing tab, in the Spacing list, select Expanded. In the By box, enter 7.

5. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the WordArt Styles group, click the arrow next to Text Fill,
point to Gradient, and then click More Gradients.

6. In the Format Text Effects dialog box, click Text Fill in the left pane, select Gradient Fill in the Text Fill
pane, and then do the following :

Click the button next to Preset colors, and then click Silver (fifth row, third option from the left).

In the Type list, select Linear.

Click the button next to Direction, and then click Linear Diagonal (first row, first option from the left).

In the Angle box, enter 220°.

7. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the WordArt Styles group, click Text Effects, point to 3-D
Rotation, and then under Perspective click Perspective Heroic Extreme Left (third row, second option from the
left).

8. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the WordArt Styles group, click Text Effects, point to
Bevel, and then under Bevel click Cool Slant (first row, fourth option from the left).

9. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the bottom right corner of the WordArt Styles group, click
the Format Text Effects dialog box launcher. In the Format Text Effects dialog box, click 3-D Format in the
left pane and then do the following in the 3-D Format pane:

Under Depth, in the Depth box, enter 15.5 pt.

Under Surface, click the button next to Material, and then under Translucent click Clear (third option from the left).
Click the button next to Lighting, and then under Special click Flat (first option from the left).

10. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the WordArt Styles group, click Text Effects,
point to Shadow, and then under Perspective click Perspective Diagonal Lower Left (second row, first option from
the left).

To reproduce the background on this slide, follow those steps :

1. Right-click the slide background area, then click Format Background. In the Format Background dialog box, click Fill
in the left pane, select Gradient fill in the Fill pane, and then do the following:

In the Type list, select Linear.

Click the button next to Direction, and then click Linear Diagonal (first row, first option from the left).

In the Angle box, enter 45%.

Under Gradient stops, click Add or Remove until three stops appear in the drop-down list.

2. Also under Gradient stops, customize the gradient stops that you added as follows:

Select Stop 1 from the list, and then do the following:

In the Stop position box, enter 0%.

Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click Black, Text 1 (first row, second option from the left).

Select Stop 2 from the list, and then do the following:

In the Stop position box, enter 25%.

Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click Black, Text 1 (first row, second option from the left).

Select Stop 3 from the list, and then do the following:

In the Stop position box, enter 100%.

Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click Aqua, Accent 5, Darker 25%
(fifth row, ninth option from the left).

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