Style in PowerPoint 2016
How to add additional information to your presentation
The presentation should minimize the amount of information, but give a comprehensive representation of it.
However, for the discussions you may need additional information that will bloat your presentation.
Fortunately, there are other ways than adding those information to the slides.
How to organize your slides
When you create a presentation, it is difficult to develop a perfect plan of slides in the very beginning. On the one side, the presentation shouldn't be too long and shouldn't contain a large number of slides. On other side, you can't be sure that any detailed information will be unnecessary. PowerPoint proposes some features to create a flexible presentation where you can manage which part of your presentation will go next.
How to create speakers notes for the PowerPoint presentation
When you prepare the presentation, you add some hints, the presentation plan, or even full text of your speech
into slides of the PowerPoint presentation. Later you will be able to use these notes during the presentation
(see how to view your
notes in the presentation mode.)
How to insert links, hyperlinks or mail links into the PowerPoint slide
When you give a presentation, sometimes you need to show other documents (PowerPoint presentations, Excel
spreadsheets, Word documents, or even some websites). Instead of searching those files on your computer,
you can add hyperlinks in the presentation to be more flexible and assured.
How to create a dynamic presentation
If you have a presentation with some charts and reports you never know how often you will need to update it.
E.g., you create a quarter performance report and receive a new data every hour. In this case, instead of
PowerPoint tables and charts it is better to embed Excel object. The information automatically updates after
updates in the Excel table.
How to work with hidden slides
Sometimes you have no time to finish the slide or find at the last moment that it isn't important for this
presentation. On this occasion, you can save your presentation to a different file, delete the slide and use
the backup file later. However, you will not have there all notes, highlights, and drawings that you will do
during the presentation. Instead, you can hide the slide and have all the information in one place.
How to create blots for numbering
When you create your own presentation, in some situations, it should be funny, or have some attractive visual
accents. You can use different colors, backgrounds or pictures, etc., but you are still limited by standard
elements. This tip shows how to use PowerPoint to create interesting visual objects for your presentation.
How to create spot shapes for numbering
It is usual to use numbering in your presentation (remember that you can use just 3-5 points in one slide).
There are many pre-defined variations and types of numbering lists you can use, and, for sure, there are
unnumbered templates on the Internet. But, do you really want to be like anyone else? Why don't you try to
create your own unique numbering style for your presentation?
Calendar project planning in PowerPoint
When you create a presentation of the project, task, or innovation, it will be useful to show the project
schedule calendar. You can create a Gantt chart, for example, in Excel, and just add it to your PowerPoint
presentation (see How to create a
perfect Gantt chart).
How to create a multi-week calendar
For some presentation slides, you might need a calendar as a background picture. For example, when you want
to present some events or processes for the next few weeks. Sure, there are a lot of existing templates that
you can use, but it is easy to create your own calendar from scratch.