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You create a presentation in PowerPoint by starting with a basic outline and building on it by adding new slides and content. You decide the layout and color scheme and format and design of the content. Then to enhance your presentation you add advanced elements such as animations, images, media clips and so on.

Here are a few pointers that I find useful while creating presentations. These are not guidelines but just a few basics that I feel makes my life easier while creating presentations:

• I start with a blank presentation file when my presentation needs minimal design and color application. A blank presentation file contains a single slide when created and provides me with a great variety of scope to use my imagination when I like to use my creativity in the few number of slides that I am creating.

• I create a presentation from an existing presentation that I have already created when I feel that I would be using most of the design and content of my existing presentation. Any changes I need to make I do to the existing presentation making my life easier.

• But it is the Design templates and templates on the Web that I use most frequently while creating presentations. The reason is that templates come with a predefined design concept, fonts, and color scheme. I just have to type in the content make a few minor adjustments and my presentation is ready.

Also, if you want to create presentations that you want to distribute to lot of people over the Web, there are a few things that you want to remember:

•Use fonts that are available installed with Windows. If you use fancy fonts that are available on your system, they may not be displayed correctly when your presentation is distributed over the Web because these fonts may not be available on the system where your presentation is viewed.

• You should avoid embedding sound and video files that are not compatible with different operating systems. For example you may embed a sound file to your presentation on Macintosh that a person using Windows may not be able to play.

• And finally, try and view your presentations on different platforms to understand the visual changes that may take place to your presentation. This will help you to understand the PowerPoint features that are supported on different platforms. You can then judicially use the features supported by all platforms or come up with separate presentations for separate platforms.

TJ