Large Presentation for 2 day seminar

[Guest]

I am running a 2 day training program. We typically have about 4 speakers
and spend way too much time messing with the slide deck, different laptops,
projector, etc. Do you recommend using a series of slide decks or would
powerpoint do a good job of handling one enormous slide deck.

Is there a way to break the presentation up into sections, like with word.
I'm using Office 2007.

Thanks

 

[Ute Simon]

I am running a 2 day training program. We typically have about 4 speakers

and spend way too much time messing with the slide deck, different
laptops,
projector, etc. Do you recommend using a series of slide decks or would
powerpoint do a good job of handling one enormous slide deck.

Is there a way to break the presentation up into sections, like with word.
I'm using Office 2007.

Hi Janice,

though PowerPoint-2007-presentations are typically smaller than those of
older version, I would recommend to save a separate file for each session
and not combine all slides in one deck.

If you want to "tie them together" you could create a simple
3-slide-presentation:
- Title slide for the whole event
- Agenda slide with one rectangle for each session, which are linked to the
presentations of the speakers.
- Slide announcing Coffee Break ;-)

This small presentation stays open in the background all the time. Whenever
one of the speakers closes his session presentation, the Agenda slide will
be visible and you or the next speaker can launch the next presentation with
a hyperlink.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am running a 2 day training program. We typically have about 4 speakers
and spend way too much time messing with the slide deck, different laptops,
projector, etc. Do you recommend using a series of slide decks or would
powerpoint do a good job of handling one enormous slide deck.

The usual suggestion is to create a single-slide "menu" and/or welcome
presentation (perhaps with the program's logo or the like).

On it, add links to each of the other presentations.

On the last slide of each of the other presentations, include any sort of shape
with an End Show action setting assigned to it.

That will immediately close the show and return you to the menu presentation,
ready to click a link for the next speaker's show.