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Another type of slide to end your presentation

June 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Apple Keynote, Handouts, PowerPoint

If you are uncomfortable simply using a black slide at the end of your talk, why not advertise your email address? This means you don’t have to hand out your business cards! Instead, the audience can jot down your address and contact you if thety have any further questions they want to ask you. I [...]

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Printing great handouts from Apple Keynote
- it can be done

June 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Apple Keynote, Handouts, PowerPoint

I found it frustrating initially using Keynote because handout printing options appeared to be very limited (compared to PowerPoint, for example). But it’s actually very straightforward.

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Why can you not use your PowerPoint slides for handouts?

May 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Apple Keynote, Handouts, PowerPoint

I keep reading all this stuff in the PowerPoint design books which tell you not to use your PowerPoint file for handouts. The reasoning goes like this: the audience are there to hear you. If you cram your slides with tons of text, graphs, and other images they will spend the whole time reading the [...]

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