Tips and Techniques on Effective PowerPoint Presentation Issue 02/08

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Increase The Effectiveness Of Your Presentation Through A Simple Feature in PowerPoint
Dear PowerPoint User, Can you imagine attending a presentation with 213 slides - each slide having at least 3 points - and all the points appear together with the slide? While the presenter might be happily presenting thinking that he was giving his best shot, the audience might be battling nausea and dizzy spell. Do you think this presentation was effective and successful? If you were the presenter, is there anything that you could do to avoid this kind of "Data Dumping"? Thank God, Yes ! "Data Dumping" occurs when we pack the entire slide with so much information that you can hardly place your finger on an empty space in the slide.
In this issue, we are going to introduce a simple feature in PowerPoint that will bring your presentation up a notch. The feature is known as the dim effect in PowerPoint's animation section.
What does this effect do? It simply dims the previous points and thereby allows the focus to be on the current point. In this way, you will easily direct your audience's attention. It also helps your audience to focus on the point that you are currently elaborating on. This effect also makes your slide look less clustered since all the previously elaborated-points would have been dimmed. Sounds too good to be true? Click here to check out this effect on YouTube Otherwise check out this step-by-step guide: For the purpose of illustrating, we will work on a sample slide. If you have your own slide with all your animations done, please proceed to step 2. 1. We will start with a sample slide like this: 2. Click on "Effect Options" 3. Click on drop-down list of "After animation". Tips: Choose a color that is as close to your background as possible so that after animation, the text will look as if it fades into the background. Click on "More Colors" for more selection of colors. For this sample slide, the color grey is chosen. Remember to click "OK" to register the change. 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for all texts that you want to dim after animation. Before we sign off this newsletter, we have a new set of diagrams available for you free. Click here to download the diagrams now. Till our next newsletter, Kelvin Lee To view previous newsletter, click on the links below: - Issue 01/08 - Pause To Give Your Audience Time To Reflect And Absorb To view our YouTube videos, click on the links below: - Effective Tips on PowerPoint Presentation - How To Use PowerPoint Animation Effectively Does our e-newsletter benefit you? Send your comments to feedback@figtree.com.sg Social Bookmarking - Like This Article? Bookmark Us and Share It With Your Friends!