Monday, March 21, 2011

Power Point Slideshow Keyboard Shortcuts

One day I was randomly pressing keys on my keyboard and made one of the most useful discoveries for my everyday life... Want some shortcuts that will help you while presenting Power Point slideshows on your PC at work?

Start your Power Point. Open your presentation. Go to slideshow mode. Press "F1". Voilà! A text window with Slideshow Keyboard Shortcuts will appear. Learn them by heart because they can be very useful AND will differentiate you from the rest of your colleagues (It is simple, but not many people know this). Maybe you already know this, but it did help me a lot!

If the "F1" should not work. You can go to "Help" and type "Slideshow keyboard shortcuts". If your computer works in Spanish, you should type "Métodos abreviados del teclado de presentaciones".
Hope you find it useful!

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Steal this presentation!

My boss just shared with the team an awesome presentation that we should all have a look at - 'Steal this presentation' by jessedee at slideshare.net. If you work with Power Point all day long, I recommend you to have a look at it... I'm sure you'll find a lot of tips that will help you improve and make your presentations more impactful.

I seriously thought we were doing a pretty decent job. I was aware that our slides were not Steve Jobs material but believed we had gone one step forward by adding pictures and images to our text... I now see we were wrong. Although today they are more colorful and visual, they still need to be a lot more visual and impactful. We must put a lot of effort and need a lot of practice to achieve those levels, but I am positive it will be worth the try.
I know it will impact you as much as it has impacted me!