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How to make the most of PowerPoint presentations

A PowerPoint presentation is your one opportunity to express yourself in multimedia form. PowerPoint gives you a chance to articulate and communicate the thoughts in your head in full color and living animations while helping your audience stay focused on the message. PowerPoint was created to allow the common speech presenter to perform there normal plan speech which was typeset and laid out so neat and clean in a word processor format with pizzazz! Now, it's essential to know how to get the most out Microsoft's terrific medium that allows you, the presenter, to reinforce your message with visual prompts. If you follow the three keys of being consistent on each slide, reinforcing your message with automated charts and graphs, and transitioning easily from slide to slide you will get the most out of your presentation.

The best place to start is to design the presentation in Master View. This allows you to see each slide that you have already created along with the style slide and data that you have in that slide. Designing in this view allows you to not only remain in a creative role but also to see what you have planned to cover. Another plus to this view is that you can stay on topic and create a consistent flow to the presentation. One of the last things you want to do when presenting to an audience is to jump all across the board with your topics. Each topic should effortlessness role into the next thought without losing the audience. Master view also makes it easy for you the designer to decide in which order each slide should be placed, where each subtitle belongs and if you are using too many graphics or pictures in your presentation causing the audience to lose concentration of the point and begin to focus on the artwork.

The second key to making the most of a PowerPoint presentation is to reinforce your message with automated charts and graphs. Throughout the course of giving a presentation or discourse often times you can lose part of your audience. Not everyone takes in information the same. Some people are auditory in that they are better off hearing, some are visionary in that they have to see, some retain information by what they read and then there are those that have to be wowed for the message to get through. Graphs, charts, clipart and pictures make the presentation memorable and make it easier for people to remember. Think of it this way; when you hear, see or read "Have your way" you think

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