[stylist] Software

Mon Sep 19 12:33:25 UTC 2011

Hi,
Here's some advice that will help you put together basic text presentations in PowerPoint. Use this method, and you will be more efficient at making PowerPoint presentations. 

I. Rather than PowerPoint, open Word.

II. Type in your presentation with the following things in mind.

1. . Heading styles become various bullet point levels in PowerPoint.

A. Heading 1 styles become the titles of slides.

B. Heading Styles below Heading 1 Style become various levels of slide body text.

III. Helpful key strokes.

1. Alt + Control + 1 through Alt + Control + 3 on the top row of the keyboard create Heading level 1, 2, and 3 styles.

2. Alt + Control + Right and Alt +  Control + Left Arrows change heading styles. For example, if a line is at heading level 3, Alt + Control + Right Arrow makes it Heading level 4. Alt + Control + Left Arrow turns a Heading Level 3 line into a Heading Level 2 line.

IV. Do not put blank lines in your document. 

V. The procedure is different for whatever version of PowerPoint you may have, but once you have your document created and saved in Word, import it into PowerPoint. Now, all you have to do is adjust the number of bullet points for each slide so that you don't have too many for each slide. Remember that the closer to level 1, the larger the font, and the closer to the maximum of 9 levels, the smaller the font. In my experience, I don't go below level 4 most of the time. And it's OK to continue points from one slide to the next if you need to do that.

Thanks.

Jim

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Brad

There was a time when I did use PowerPoint. I created the slide-show or
PowerPoint presentation myself and JAWS worked okay during all phases. I've
not tried for a couple of years; now all my software is different and am not
sure they all work together like that earlier go-around. (I'm going to email
a couple of tech people I know and see what they say.)

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Jim,

Yes I've got Office 2010. I expect then MS has various layouts you 
can download. I'd never worked with templates in Word before but I 
will look into it as I go here. Thanks for the feedback.

Brad

On 9/19/2011  05:45 AM Homme, James said...
>Hi Brad,
>Forget Publisher, and speech support for PowerPoint is very bad. 
>Don't let laying stuff out get in your way. You can always get 
>templates for that stuff. Do you have Word?
>
>Jim
>
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>With the crosshairs converging on free lance writer, leaning heavier
>on business writing, I am looking for any way to potentially make
>layout of such things as newsletters and etc. more efficient. Are
>there any  additional software offerings out there that are
>accessible? Is MS Publisher accessible? What about MS Power Point?
>I've had little experience/luck with the latter and none with the
>former. I'd like to simplify layout and import of graphics if/when
>needed and keep focus on the real job of writing.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Brad
>
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>
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