Tip #2550 - Banish the Blank Slide Jitters
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Banish
the Blank Slide Jitters
When you start a new
PowerPoint presentation, do you stare at that first blank slide and freeze?
Do you have problems figuring out just how to start when that blank white
slide just stares back at you?
If you have this type
of reaction to a blank slide, you may be happy to learn that PowerPoint
has some built in help, and I mean a little more help than just a slide
design. I'm talking about suggestions for type of content, as well as,
presentation order based on the type of presentation you're trying to
create.
Interested?
Sounded interesting
to me too, so let's get right to it.
What we're looking
to use today is the AutoContent Wizard found in the newer versions of
MS PowerPoint.
To begin, you need
to locate the "From AutoContent Wizard" choice
on the Task Pane.
If you don't see the
Task Pane, you can use either the File menu, New
choice or the View menu, Task Pane choice.
Either way, you'll end up in the same place.
When you click on
the AutoContent Wizard choice, a three step wizard will start that asks
some very basic questions. It's the answers you give here that will be
the basis of the presentation.
The first step will
ask you to identify what type of presentation you're creating.
It's important to
pick something as close to your needs as possible, as the suggestions
for content information vary for each presentation type. Picking the closest
match will help ensure that you'll find the suggestions useful.
The next two steps
are basic information, such as how the presentation will be used, presentation
title and footer information.
Click the Finish
button after providing as much information to the wizard as possible.
Presto, change-o!
Your blank slide is converted to a multiple slide presentation with suggested
content topics and placement.
Obviously, you still
need to enter the content and alter whatever slide setups and slide orders
you deem necessary, but with the wizard, you get to skip the jitters that
the intimidating blank slide can cause.
~ April
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