Comments on: PowerPoint is my slave!

By: Ashishkumar

Ashishkumar — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:13:33 +0000

Thanks for sharing awesome ideas. The smart tips will be really helpful for experts and beginners alike. Can you please also send some good tips on MS Excel. Excel and Powerpoint are two applications which are widely used in all area.

By: Shruti

Shruti — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:55:03 +0000

Dear Shalu,

Thanks a ton- pretty useful for my work.

Regards,
Shruti.

By: Bhanu

Bhanu — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:05:37 +0000

Hi Shalu,

Thanks for the great tips. Loved the F3ad pen pointer tips. Great bag of tricks, indeed!

Bhanu

By: Rajesh Narvankar

Rajesh Narvankar — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:48:54 +0000

Hey many many thanks to you for such a wonderful tips. awesome man.

Regards,
Rajesh

By: Mark Reddick

Mark Reddick — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:58:06 +0000

Great. Simple Fun.

And if you ever need more proof why we need to keep focused, watch this…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cagxPlVqrtM&eurl=http://tmwinnovation.ning.com/forum/topics/powerpoint-presentations-1?page=1&commentId=2476123%3AComment%3A1185&&feature=player_embedded

By: Dr. Neelam Tikkha

Dr. Neelam Tikkha — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:07:12 +0000

Marvellous , simply awesome . What bag of tricks . Great I salute .

By: Gopinath

Gopinath — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:46:16 +0000

Nice and helpful article.
For switching between slides during presentation, making the slide number as URL/Hyperlink will do the trick as well. For both forward and backward jumps.

By: Aniirban

Aniirban — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:04:13 +0000

I must admit……. no amount of MS-tip could make me more adept …… than scanning this article…….

Was indeed a ready reckoner. http://tickledbylife.com/site/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:17:29 +0000

Excellent material. I work with college instructors to assist them in using technology. Your two PowerPoint articles will be included from now on. Thanks!

By: P S Prasad

P S Prasad — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:54:06 +0000

Very useful and practical information. Will definitely benefit all the readers of this article. Must read for all professionals using power point for making a difference.

Keep it up!!!

By: Gerry

Gerry — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:10:39 +0000

Extremely well written, useful and engaging! Its been a long time since I read a good PPT ‘tips’ article. Thank you and Bravo!

By: komal goyal

komal goyal — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:06:02 +0000

Shalu!!

Its really amzain!! Will surely use n try ur tips. The Pen pointer stuff is cool..

Expecting more..

Regards,
Komal

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:28:36 +0000

Great article. Many thx. fyi, discovered your article through a linkedin group on Web 2.0.

By: Anne Elmerick

Anne Elmerick — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:12:07 +0000

Great info. I especially like your suggestion to have more images, less text and larger type, and will put your tips to good use today!
Thanks.

By: Donna McMahan

Donna McMahan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:01:54 +0000

Great presentation tips! Loved them all and there were many I hadn’t seen before. Here’s one more for you. In addition to turning graphics from bmps into jpegs, once you do so, right click on the first one in powerpoint. Select Format Picture. When the dialog box opens, select Compress and then click All pictures in document. This will reduce the size of your presentaiton significantly.

Thanks again and keep all the tips coming.

By: Brick Andrews

Brick Andrews — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:09:43 +0000

Fantastic – I love all the practical tips (example, Shift-F3 to set the case on a selection). I’ve also heard of the 10-20-30 rule for presentations to avoid DBPPT (Death By PowerPoint):

- Use no more than 10 slides
- Present for no longer than 20 minutes
- Don’t use any font size lower than 30

I consider Garr Reynolds and Nancy Duarte my presentation “gurus”. They offer a lot of great advice on their blogs:

- Garr Reynolds (http://www.presentationzen.com)
- Nancy Duarte (http://blog.duarte.com)

By: Frederic Perez

Frederic Perez — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:02:24 +0000

Some tips were new to me, thank you!

Minor typo: To insert the Trademark ™ symbol enter ™. –> enter ™.

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:33:51 +0000

thanks so much for these tips – I’ll have a go at some of them in tweaking my next presentation.

By: Mobeen Tejani

Mobeen Tejani — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:30:43 +0000

Dear Shalu,

Absolutely amazing tips.

Thanks a million

Regards

Mobeen

By: Shalu Wasu

Shalu Wasu — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:11:29 +0000

Jonathan, Vish, Divya, Natalia : many thanks!
Jack – absolutely right! you will enjoy ‘Avoiding death by powerpoint’ check it out here – http://tickledbylife.com/index.php/avoiding-death-by-powerpoint/
Kaushik – thanks
Nafees – thanks! that is useful
Mindthegap
Tom, Sperl, Ivy, Kiran – thanks!

By: Kiran

Kiran — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:53:26 +0000

I am a powerpoint enthusiast. Love the stuff you came up with – especially the going back to a particular slide in the past and the hiding the pointer deal. Neat.

By: Ivy Boyer

Ivy Boyer — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:49:53 +0000

this was an extremely informative and useful article for me. Thank you so much for sharing these tips.

By: Sperl

Sperl — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:09:12 +0000

Fantastic! I wish I had this 10 years ago. Thank you!

By: Tom Humbarger

Tom Humbarger — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:44:42 +0000

Great tips – there were several that I never heard of and will certainly use in my next presentation. Thanks for sharing and I’ll definitely share it with my network!

Tom

By: MindtheGap

MindtheGap — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:46:37 +0000

Now if I could just get the PhD’s to comprehend what the Slide Master and Handout Master is for.

I recommend articles on Peka Chuka powerpoint also.

By: Nafees Ahmad

Nafees Ahmad — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:55:04 +0000

Great tips !! Thanks.

If you find it difficult to remember those shortcuts, use your right click on your mouse while in slide show mode to see all these options in the form of menu. Click which is required for the moment and that’s it.

Cheers !
Nafees Ahmad

By: Kaushik

Kaushik — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:03:54 +0000

Awesome! Shalu.

Very informative and i really enjoyed it.

By: Jack Gale

Jack Gale — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:57:28 +0000

Very good advice, I have always said that you are up there to tell a story, Powerpoint is just the pages…

By: Natallia

Natallia — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:15:15 +0000

Very cool. Thanks a lot.

By: Divya

Divya — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:13:55 +0000

This was quite an informative article. It sure had some pointers for me to keep in mind.
Many Thanks

By: Vish

Vish — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:45:33 +0000

Absolutely interesting stuff… Many of the tips esp. the B / W button and the Control+P tips are amazing.. thanks

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:43:01 +0000

awesome stuff! i also read the other article which is equally good. keep them coming….