Improving Slide Presentations

• • concise information
• • understandable portrayal of info
• • high-contrast, consistent designs that fit the theme
• • graphics to support important points
• • grammatically correct
• Slide- a single page of a presentation in a slide show; usually comes with placeholders
• Slide placeholder- sections of a slide that can be clicked to replace the blank boxes in the position of content
• Accent color- emphasis color
• Color scheme- an arrangement of a color palette for a design
• presentation theme- a predefined combination of fonts, colors, and effects that can be accessed through the themes section of the design tab
• slide sorter view- shows thumbnail version of the slides
• reading view- a preview of what the slides would look like in a presentation
• slide show view- runs slides as they will appear during a presentation — to access, press F5
• presentation transitions- a special effect to smoothly move between slides; accessed via transitions tab and has three types
• three types of transitions: subtle, dynamic, exciting
• • subtle transitions- the most basic and simplistic animations to transition
• • exciting transitions- these use more complex animations to transition between slides
• • dynamic content transitions- only moves placeholders rather than the slides