Background

Today's business environment expects executives and professional employees to present information to other team or company members. These lectures are carried out best by means of computer-based presentations.

What is a presentation? Well, you surely remember the flip chart. The lecturer filled expensive, large, blank pages with illegible felt-tip-marker drawings and notes, and then he would f-l-i-p it up and over the other pages in the pad.

Flip charts were replaced by slide projectors, with carousels or trays that showed consecutive slides. The lecturer would press a button – click-click – and the next slide would appear.

Slide projectors were then replaced by overhead transparency projectors, that were easier to arrange. They could also show layers, with one slide being placed on the other. Those slides were slippery, though. When the pile fell or got shuffled, the speaker would have to return to the lectureng technology used so successfully by Moses and others throughout the generations.

Computer presentations have the same flexibility as transparencies, with the added benefit that they are not slippery. They also add multimedia and breathtaking effects.

Our Computer Presentations forum discusses this modern technology.

You may submit a query to the Computer Presentations forum, after which you will receive responses from subscribers, around the world.

Our collective information and background and knowledge help each other give more successful presentations.

Topics

This forum includes recommendations and tips in the following topics and areas relating to any presentation software:

• Queries about general features
• Queries about features working with text in any language
• Queries about features when using any platform
• Issues relating to conversion from one presentation software to another
• Conversion among presentation software programs that use different platforms
• Questions about over-use of presentation features
• Online collaboration among users
• Conversion of presentations to HTML or Web format
• Adding outside elements such as graphics or spreadsheets to a slide show
• Working with macros
• Bug reports
• Preserving your settings or special features when upgrading your presentation software program
• Preserving your settings or special features when upgrading your computer
• Questions about other issues relating to presentations

Who should join

The Computer Presentations forum is open to the following groups of people:

• Experts in any computer presentation software package
• Users of these programs
• People who want to know about presentations
• Executives who want to know what features are available
• Developers of professional presentations
• Agencies that hire typists
• Those who use presentation software for special purposes, such as teaching
• Professionals who use presentation software in the course of their work
• Programmers, developers, and designers of presentation programs
• Translators
• Editors
• Writers
• Grant writers

Join the Computer Presentations forum