Chapter 24. It's Showtime! Giving a Presentation

This book can't get up on stage for you, but this chapter can certainly help—it's all about setting up, practicing, and delivering a slideshow.

If you've never given a PowerPoint presentation before, you'll learn basics like launching the show, moving through its slides, and drawing the virtual curtain. But even if you're a slide deck veteran, there's plenty here to help avoid the dreaded Death by PowerPoint: how to rehearse and check a presentation's timing, how to record narration, and how to make sure your slides looks good on the big screen. And if you give different versions of the same talk to different groups, this chapter will show you how to generate custom presentations from a single, master file.