Before you actually create a presentation, you should determine the presentation's purpose, organize your ideas, and establish the flow of what you're going to say. You need to create an outline. To learn some useful outlining techniques, see "Creating an Outline and Storyboard" in Chapter 24, "The Message ”Scripting the Concept," p. 506 . PowerPoint offers four ways to create an outline. One of the easiest ways is to create your presentation using the Outline tab in Normal view. If you're more comfortable adding content directly to slides, PowerPoint displays your information on the Outline tab. Creating a presentation using the AutoContent Wizard is a good idea if you want to receive detailed content suggestions for a particular type of presentation. The wizard also creates a basic outline for you. And finally, if you already have an outline in another application such as Word 2003, you can easily import the outline into PowerPoint. To learn how to import existing outlines, see "Working with Outlines Created in Other Programs" in this chapter, p. 108 . As you create your outline, keep several things in mind:
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