Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® to Create Presentations that Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Business Skills)

by Cliff Atkinson

Practicing Scaling to Time As you saw in Chapter 5, if you complete all three columns of Act II, you have enough Key Point, Explanation, and Detail slides to fill about a 45-minute presentation. However, at the last minute, you might need to scale down your presentation from 45 minutes to 15 or even 5 minutes. Now practice how easy it is to do that with only a few clicks of the mouse. Follow these steps in Slide Sorter view to scale the storyboard to time by hiding the slides you don’t need to use in the presentation: If you’re giving a 45-minute presentation, do nothing—all your slides will appear to your audience. To prepare a 15-minute presentation, hold down the Ctrl key and click the white Detail slides throughout the presentation. With all the Detail slides selected, right-click any Detail slide, and then select Hide Slide. Now