The Benefits of Using Slide Notes

In Toby Lux’s article here on The Toolbox, “Captivate Your Audience During Presentations – Checklist,” he discusses many things to keep in mind while presenting. This includes using large and simple talking points, trying not to speak for too long, not reading from the presentation, and thinking of questions that might be asked ahead of [...]

Reducing File Sizes on PowerPoint Presentations – Part 3 of 3

In the final article of this series, I will briefly go over three additional options that could help keep your file sizes down on your PowerPoint Presentations.

Turning off the Auto Save feature
Embedding only the characters used in the presentation
Compressing images

Although having the Auto Save feature turned on can definitely be a very large help, it [...]

Protecting Intellectual Property

It is very common to see an image and want to use it in your own publication. But did you know that you could possibly be violating copyright law without even knowing it? Copyright law can be a very confusing matter, but it is something we should all be aware of, even if only in the most [...]

Reducing File Sizes on PowerPoint Presentations – Part 2 of 3

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed how to detect hidden images and change the dimensions of an image. Both of these can have a large affect on your file size. But did you know that the type of image can also affect your file size?
It may not seem like it really matters, and [...]

Reducing File Sizes on PowerPoint Presentations – Part 1 of 3

As Government contractors and employees, we all have to create a PowerPoint presentation at some point for various reasons. One of the major issues we each come across is that the file size is too big. This is a problem as most email has a size restriction, making it more difficult to send files to [...]