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08-20-2007, 03:54 PM
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Carpe Noctem
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Any PowerPoint pros in the house?
Just curious if there were any pros out there. I have a PP presentation due for a final here in a couple days and I've only done basic PPs before. Was hoping someone could give me a few ideas for something that grabs some attention?
Thanks!
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08-20-2007, 04:40 PM
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Professor Chaos
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you rang?... i use it on a regular basis for corporate presentations... what are you doing?
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08-20-2007, 04:51 PM
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Carpe Noctem
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Presenting a "service" to a ficticious company in a building. I am presenting a cafe like the rain forest cafe in order to bring world famous coffee and food into the building.
I'm trying to add flair to the presentation... Maybe animation or something? I've made some stuff in firworks in order to bring a custom flair so far.
Thanks for the reply 
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08-20-2007, 04:54 PM
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Professor Chaos
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what do you have to work with? video, audio, pictures (what kind). you can import and place virtually anything into PP. is this a projector presentation or paper?
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08-20-2007, 04:55 PM
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Professor Chaos
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one thing to keep in mind with a business presentation is the simple law that less is more. a single well chosen picture is 10 times better then a bunch of flair. you want to come across as a business person not a party animal when proposing to a potential customer
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08-20-2007, 04:58 PM
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Carpe Noctem
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Just emailing the PP file to the instructor. It's an online business class 
I guess I can use any media that a standard windows program can open. Instead of a verbal presentatin to go along with it, the instructor will read the PP notes section to guide through the slides. SO far I've just used the slides, decked out with a water/wave theme with a few pics. Oddly enough it's a reef related cafe
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08-20-2007, 05:01 PM
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Professor Chaos
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how long? did you use title page breaks? try to keep it to one picture or flair about ever 2 pages or so.
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08-20-2007, 05:05 PM
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Carpe Noctem
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Twitterbait
how long? did you use title page breaks? try to keep it to one picture or flair about ever 2 pages or so.
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10 slides maximum. So far I have 6 and only three have pics. I was just thinking on the slide where I provide the solution, I would like it to somehow have something extra.
The concept is focused on me as the presenter, using the PP as a aid, rather than a PP leading the way, with me hiding in the background.
So if I were to animate what I wanted in MM flash, I could just insert it as a gif? that makes sense.
You will have to excuse my ignorance, I've been a point and click guy for ever and I'm just starting out with some of this stuff and changing careers. Going for an AA in business and a BA in IT/Webbased design
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08-20-2007, 05:14 PM
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Professor Chaos
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bingo, it will not show the picture movement unless he runs it as a presentation.
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08-20-2007, 05:48 PM
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Thanks twitter...
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08-20-2007, 07:51 PM
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Hop, you are better man than I, you saw what it took to straighten out basic Microslop program for me 
I have PP but only to read PPS files my friends with broadband insist on sending me  "
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08-22-2007, 10:14 AM
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i hope you are going to share you presentation with the rest of us too!
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08-22-2007, 06:50 PM
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Plankton
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Hop, What school are you going to? My wife is in a buisiness management course at University of Pheonix. She just started the BA program and just started her second class of the BA today. She does alot of PP in the class too...
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08-22-2007, 06:57 PM
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Carpe Noctem
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Hop, What school are you going to? My wife is in a buisiness management course at University of Pheonix. She just started the BA program and just started her second class of the BA today. She does alot of PP in the class too...
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LOL: Same place Just wrapping up finals on my first block of two classes; Gen105 and com140. New classes start next monday.
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08-22-2007, 07:00 PM
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i hope you are going to share you presentation with the rest of us too!
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That could be embarrasing! I had to present a service to a large office building. So I'm proposing a ficticious restaurant which is a cross between Starbucks and the Rain Forrest Cafe. It's called The Captive Reef Cafe. And I may copywrite the name and theme for my future business adventures 
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