Organize Your Presentation

Suppose you are preparing a presentation that covers one or more subject areas. Or perhaps you need to customize your presentation for multiple presenters. Whatever your requirements, you want your slide show to run as smoothly as possible. To do this, you need to simplify and organize your material so that it can be presented for multiple purposes.

Create mini-presentations from a master presentation   A custom show is a group of selected slides to which you assign a name for easy reference. You define them by clicking Custom Shows (Slide Show menu). For example, within a master presentation you can create separate custom shows for sales, product development, and executive management. To run a custom show, select its name in the Custom Shows dialog box and then click Show.

Turn a slide into a presentation   When you create and organize your presentation, you might find that particular slides include too much information. Each bulleted item on the slide has its own bullets and the slide is getting too complicated. To simplify your presentation, if you run out of room on a slide, click Expand Slide (Tools menu) to create a new set of slides from the current slide. Each bulleted item on the expanded slide becomes a new slide.