Creating Custom Slide Shows

PowerPoint provides a relatively easy way to create custom slide shows that remain within the original slide show. Essentially, you select the slides to include from the master slide show, and then you play just the custom slide show. If you want to explore this feature, you can do so by choosing Slide Show, Custom Shows.

Custom shows can help you quickly create a subset of a slide show, but it's not the end-all answer for customizing a presentation to a particular audience. In particular, you can't modify many of your customized slide controls in a custom show. If you need greater customizing control over a slide show, you can create a new slide show and import the slides you need from the original slide show. Then you can fine-tune the second slide show, including links, transitions, timing, and so on.

graphics/rarr.gif For details on importing slides from another slide show, see p. 78.


The Absolute Minimum

Preparing a slide show for presentation involves more than making sure each slide is just right. You must also make sure the overall slide show works in terms of slide order, slide transitions, and color schemes. In this chapter, you did the following:

  • You found out how to use the slide sorter to organize and hide slides.

  • You learned how to change transitions.

  • You explored the differences between manual and automatic slide transitions.

  • You learned how to modify color schemes and change backgrounds.

  • You saw that it's simple to create speaker notes.

  • You discovered that you can create custom slide shows from within a master slide show.

Chapter 14, "Preparing to Make a Presentation," explores getting ready to make a presentation.



Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
Absolute Beginners Guide to Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
ISBN: 0789729695
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 154
Authors: Read Gilgen

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