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Best resources, ideas and tools for creating, managing and delivering effective PowerPoint presentations
researched, tested and reported by Luigi Canali De Rossi
MasterView Issue#8
Design and Readability
MasterView International
Creating and Managing Effective PowerPoint
Presentations for International Audiences
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MasterView International by IKONOS New Media
January 15th, 2002 Issue #8
Executive Editor: Simone Luchini
Editor-in-Chief: Luigi Canali De Rossi
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In this issue:
1. What are "Serif" and "Sans-serif" fonts?
2. Why should I use the shadow effect in my text?
3. How can I customize bullets?
4. How can I replace or modify fonts?
5. How can I improve readability?
6. What colors should I use?
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This issue's theme:
*Design and Readability*
*Problems*
1) What are "Serif" and "Sans-serif" fonts?
2) Why should I use the shadow effect in my text?
3) How can I customize bullets?
4) How can I replace or modify fonts?
5) How can I improve readability?
6) What colors should I use?
*Solutions*
1) Learn what differences there are between these two classes of typefaces
2) See how to properly use the shadow effect to improve readability
3) Discover how to take control of the bullet symbols
4) Step-by-step guide on how to change fonts in a presentation
5) Tips to improve text readability and effectiveness
6) The effective use of colors in presentations
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Welcome back, dear MasterView readers and Happy New Year.
I have a pocket full of gold, silver, and copper coins: the new Euro!
How do you get along with it? Do you already miss your old currency? By
the way, speaking of Euro, let me share with you a useful shortcut: if you
want to insert the Euro symbol in a Windows 98/ME edition, the keyboard
combination is Ctrl+Alt+5.
Let me share with you some of what is happening behind "MasterView".
Three very good things have happened:
1) The newsletter has almost reached 1,000 subscribers;
2) A few web sites have started linking back to MasterView
(http://www.powerpointanswers.com/,
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/
FAQ00210.htm,
http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/
favorite_links.html, http://www.cemca.org/newsletter/
sep2001/sep2001.htm#07);
3) MasterView has reached the first positions when searching through
Google for "Presentations for International Audiences".
I am glad of this slow but continuous growth of popularity and success,
and I wanted to thank you all for your support. I would really appreciate
to hear from you for critiques, questions, feedback and ideas. MasterView
has been going out for 8 months only, and it seems to have a good future
already.
Simone Luchini
MasterView Executive Editor
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Send your presentation questions in:
ask-masterview#yahoogroups.com
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MasterView is a free monthly newsletter focusing on designing and
managing effective PowerPoint presentations for international audiences.
Directed to communicators, managers, trainers, presenters and lecturers,
it provides selected solutions, how-to techniques and resources on
effective presentation-making.
MasterView is an open discussion forum for many of you having specific
questions about making presentations.
These can be addressed to: ask-masterview#yahoogroups.com.
I and everybody at IKONOS New Media will be happy to provide you with best
advice, tools and resources.
Who am I?
I am the Executive Editor of this electronic publication, my name is
Simone Luchini and I am a presentation specialist and trainer for IKONOS
New Media (http://www.ikonosnewmedia.com)
We specialize in empowering international organizations, grow and
prosper online through the effective use of new media and ICT (Information
& Communication Technologies).
Founded in 1988, IKONOS New Media is an electronic publishing and
distance learning company serving education, research and development
organizations.
If you would like to know something more about me, come and check out
my page at:
www.ikonosnewmedia.com/people/
simone.htm
Sincerely,
Simone Luchini - Executive Editor
Presentation Specialist, Trainer
IKONOS New Media
Rome | Washington
(Simone.Luchini#ikonosnewmedia.com)
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In the last 5 issues we have looked at:
Issue 3 - Aug 2001
"IMPROVING THE LOOK OF YOUR PRESENTATION"
1) Step-by-step guide to modify standard templates
and more
2) Tips and suggestions on how to customize Clip Art
in unique ways
3) What you need to know to be able to use images as
backgrounds. How to apply a background image captured
from a Web site
4) A review of the best Web sites where you can
download free additional templates
5) 12 fundamental design commandments to create
professionally-looking presentations
masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com/ masterview3.htm
Issue 4 - Sep 2001
"RUNNING YOUR PRESENTATION LIKE A PRO"
1) Learn how to run your presentation unattended by
recording all of your slide show settings and timing
2) Find out the secret advanced keyboard commands that
allow you to do near-magical tasks while running
your show
3) Discover the PowerPoint "hidden slide" functionality
which can help you take out your magic slide, just
when you need it
4) Master how you can link any Web page, Word document
or other application file to any slide in your
presentation
5) Learn how to link presentations that have different
layouts (vertical and horizontal), by doing what the
professionals do
6) Discover the experts' approach to open and close
presentations in a memorable way. Learn from films
and theatre how this has been culturally developed
and why therefore some visual solutions are better
than others
masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com/ masterview4.htm
Issue 5 - Oct 2001
"SHARING YOUR PRESENTATION WITH COLLEAGUES
FOR REVIEW AND FEEDBACK"
1) Learn how to use the PowerPoint Reviewing toolbar
See how you can use Microsoft Word to track your
changes in the PowerPoint Outline
Become familiar with saving your files using
progressive numbering
2) Take advantage of "Online Broadcasting"
3) Learn all of the different print options available for
producing handouts and print materials
4) Discover what saving a presentation as a .pps file
(PowerPoint Show) can do for you
Learn how to set the presentation file properties
as "Read-only"
Save individual slides as .gif or .jpg files and re-assemble a new presentation
Save the presentation as a Web page (HTML)
5) See how you can send a slide in the body of an email
without sending the entire presentation
6) Take advantage of Yahoogroups and other online
collaboration and exchange services
masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com/ masterview5.htm
Issue 6 - Nov 2001
"WHAT IS INFORMATION DESIGNER - Part I"
1) Learn what Information Design really is and why it is
useful when creating charts and diagrams
2) Learn five basic principles that can help you design
more effective and readable tables
3) Understand the meaning and purpose of the most common
chart types
4) Use the "Custom animation" feature to enhance the
visual aspect of how you will display your charts
5) Learn the effectiveness and appropriateness of 2-D and
3-D charts
6) Discover the "Paste Special" option to keep your
statistical charts linked to their original data
masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com/ masterview6.htm
Issue 7 - Dec 2001
"WHAT IS INFORMATION DESIGNER - Part II"
1) Learn one of the basic principles of
Information Design
2) See how to integrate legends into your
statistical graphs
3) Discover how to move, format and position 3-D graphs
4) Learn how to save a custom chart template and reuse it
5) Step-by-step guide on how to add images to charts
6) Tips on the TAB key and chart color scheme
masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com/ masterview7.htm
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To read MasterView past issues, go to
http://masterview.ikonosnewmedia.com
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Feedback
Direct feedback: simone.luchini#ikonosnewmedia.com
IKONOS New Media
Via P. Giannone 10 - 00195 Rome, Italy
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MasterView Editorial Staff
Luigi Canali De Rossi - Editor-in-Chief
luigi.canali#ikonosnewmedia.com
Simone Luchini - Executive Editor
simone.luchini#ikonosnewmedia.com
Mihai Alexandru Bocsaru - MasterView Webmaster
mihai.bocsaru#ikonosnewmedia.com
Jamie Kim - Online Editor
jamie.kim#ikonosnewmedia.com
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