Take Notes and Track Action Items on Screen

You want to keep track of good ideas that come up during your presentation. You also want the audience to know you are interested in their comments. While the presentation is in progress, you can record “meeting minutes.” Right-click anywhere during the slide show, and then click Meeting Minder.

Perhaps people in the audience will volunteer to do things and get back to you with the results. Track these action items by using the Action Item tab in the Meeting Minder dialog box. Any action items you type are automatically displayed on a new slide inserted at the end of the presentation.

After the presentation, you can view and export your minutes and action items by clicking Meeting Minder (Tools menu).

Draw attention to important facts   Just as a coach diagrams a key play on the blackboard, you can use the PowerPoint Pen feature to draw on your slides to focus attention on important facts and figures. Don’t worry about marking up your slides; Pen drawings are only temporary. Right-click while a slide show is running and click Pen. Post action items to Outlook   After you type action items in Meeting Minder, click Export to send them to Microsoft Outlook, where they are posted as unread items in the Tasks and Calendar modules. For more information, see Your First Outlook Session. Schedule another meeting with Outlook   The Schedule button in the Meeting Minder starts Outlook, which you can use to schedule the next meeting before you adjourn. Want to give your presentation to a widespread audience?   Use the presentation conferencing features available in PowerPoint to run your presentation simultaneously on one or more remote computers while controlling the presentation from another computer. For more information, see Give a Presentation on a Remote Computer.

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