Step One: Organize your presentation

• 15 minutes of planning saves hours of work!
• How much should I put on each slide?
• Where can I get some graphics? -- and associated legal issues!
• Saving and organizing files
  

Step Two: Starting your presentation

• Creating a new presentation
• Slide layouts, color schemes, and templates
• Make a title slide
• Make a bulleted slide
  

Step Three: Jazz it up

• Change the slide layout
• Inserting graphics
• Fun with text: changing fonts, sizes, colors, shadows
• What is the slide master?
• Drawing tools
• Rearranging slides
  

Step Four: Making it cool

• Slide transitions
• Animation
• Sound