Key Points

• When you don’t want to include all the slides in a presentation for a particular audience, you can use a subset of the slides to create a custom slide show. You can also hide slides and then display them only if appropriate.

• You can assign timings to slides manually, or you can rehearse the presentation and record the slide timings from the rehearsal. The presentation automatically advances from one slide to the next have the specified time has elapsed.

• You can easily create speaker notes to ensure a smooth delivery or print handouts to ensure that your audience can easily follow along with your presentation.

• To run the presentation on a computer other than the one you developed the presentation on, you can create a presentation package. Including the PowerPoint Viewer in the package enables the presentation can run on a computer on which PowerPoint is not installed.

• Knowing how to use all the toolbar buttons, commands, and keyboard shortcuts to navigate in Slide Show view will ensure a smoother presentation delivery.

• To emphasize a point, you can mark up slides during a slide show by using different pen tools and different colors. You can save or discard these annotations.