PowerPoint Etiquette

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PowerPoint Etiquette

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Background on transitions
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Information about transitions

• Good transitions can
• Help tie your presentation together
• Make it flow smoothly between ideas
• Signal important ideas to get the audiences
  attention

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Technical aspects of transitions

• Transition effects can be used with images,
  tables, charts, and graphs
• Can add movement to
• slices of a pie chart
• bars in a bar chart
• rows in a table
• levels in an organization chart

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Types of transitions
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Blinds

• The new slide is unveiled in a series of
  horizontal or vertical rows, similar to the
  effect of opening the blinds of a window

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Boxes

• The new slide "grows" from the middle of the
  previous slide, or grows inward from the edges of
  the screen

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Checkerboards

• The new slide appears over the previous slide as
  a series of boxes

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Dissolves

• An advanced case of checkerboards, where the new
  screen is unveiled in numerous small boxes or
  other graphic elements

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Wipes

• The new slide replaces the previous slide from
  left to right, top to bottom, or diagonally

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Flash bulb

• Slide title flashes to get the audiences
  attention

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Splits

• The new slide expands horizontally or vertically
  from the center of the screen

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Fade in and dim

• Points in a text chart are highlighted one point
  at a time
• This prevents your audience from reading ahead of
  you
• Focuses their attention on the point you're
  discussing
• Dims previously introduced points

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Using a transition in a diagram
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Choosing the right transition

• Should be based on
• your message
• your audience
• the computer hardware
• the length of the presentation

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Tips for transitions

• Your transitions should reflect the basic feeling
  of your presentation
• Consider the formality of your presentation and
  the expectations of your audience.
• Remember that it takes a more powerful computer
  to use transitions

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Tips for transitions

• It may be annoying when the same transitions are
  used over and over
• It may be annoying when too many different types
  of transitions are used
• Use transitions to chunk your information

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