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One thing I heard many years ago but everyone I tell seems surprised by: Export your slides to PDF. You have no idea what you'll be presenting from, and PDF r
by jedimastert 9y ago
One thing I heard many years ago but everyone I tell seems surprised by:
Export your slides to PDF.
You have no idea what you'll be presenting from, and PDF readers are everywhere and will so up basically the same on every screen. Most PDF readers have a full screen mode where pressing the space bar will advance you one "page", and 99 times out of 100 you don't need transitions. Just do it.
- _e 9y agoYes, PDF is universal but PowerPoint and Keynote have "Presenter view" which adds extra functionality besides just showing you the same slide that your audience sees such as private notes for each slide as well as thumbnails of upcoming slides so you can skip slides without the audience knowing or use a timer to pace yourself [0]. I did a quick search and I could not find out whether Adobe Acrobat has this functionality. [0] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/View-your-speaker-notes-privately-while-delivering-a-presentation-on-multiple-monitors-CCFA1894-E3EF-4955-9C3A-444D58248093 https://support.office.com/en-us/article/View-your-speaker-n...
- ghaff 9y agoI'll always have a PDF on a thumb drive in case something goes sideways with Powerpoint of whatever. But, as you say, there are advantages to presenting from presentation software. In general, I try to be as ready as possible for a Plan B that mitigates whatever projection and network problems arise.