Lesson 5

• Clarity - Avoid being fancy by using a font style that is easy to read. Makig enough to be read by the audience.
• Minimize - Keeping slide counts to a minimum to maintain a clear message and to keep the audience attentive. Remember that the presentation is just a visual aid.
• Visuals - Use graphics that attract, not distract the audience.
• Simplicity - Use bullets or short sentences. Summarize the information on the screen to have your audience focus. Apply the 6 x 7 rule.
• Consistency - Avoid having different font styles and backgrounds
• Contrast - Using light font on dark background or vice versa.
• Hyperlink - A text or object that contains a link to another file, web page, a place in a document.
• Existing file or web page - Creates a hyperlink to website or a local file saved in your hard drive. Just browse your file in the dialog box or type the web address.
• Place in this document - Creates a hyperlink that allows you to jump to a specific slide in your presentation.
• Create a new Document - Creates a hyperlink that once clicked, creates a new document on your specified location
• Email Address - Creates a hyperlink that opens microsoft outlook that automatically adds your specified recipient on a new email.
• Create new - Creates a new file from scratch. You can select on a wide variety of files listed
• Create from file - Creates a file from an existing file saved on your hard drive.
• EMBEDDING – The act of placing objects within the presentation.