Basic Workflow for Quickly Creating PowerPoint Slide Presentations
My wife’s family was over the house for dinner the other day and her grandfather (Grandpa Eugene) who is a computer enthusiast in his 90s. He’s always working on family histories and other interesting projects. God bless him, I hope I have that energy when I’m 40, let alone 90. Well, he wants to put his latest project together as a multi-media presentation for the family. He wanted to how to make a PowerPoint presentation.
It just so happens that I do them all of the time at my day job. I promised to send him some tips on using PowerPoint and the workflow that I use to expedite the process.
Creating an effective PowerPoint presentation tends to be difficult and take a long time for many people. However, if you follow a basic workflow, you can make the entire process much quicker and easier that you may think.
Here is the process that I use to build professional presentations in a short amount of time.
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Keep the PDFs, Lose the AcroCrap
Goal: Provide a list of FREE applications that will allow you to do everything you want with PDFs while avoiding the annoying, expensive problems of Adobe Acrobat.
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is great for a number of reasons however; Adobe Acrobat (the de facto standard application) is a horrendous piece of garbage. The Acrobat Reader (Free) is painfully slow to open, has more bugs than a porch light, and love to crash browsers. The Acrobat Writer (Standard $299 or Professional $449) applications are ridiculously expensive.
Here is a list of applications that will let you get the most out of the PDF format with none of the issues:
You can use this combination of free applications to do just about everything that you would ever want from Adobe Acrobat.
- Open and Read PDF files
- Create PDF files from any document or application on your computer
- Edit PDFs by converting them into Microsoft Word documents
- Merge Multiple PFDs into a single file
- Stop PDFs from crashing your browser
- Not spend hundreds of dollars
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Quick Painless Install and Set Up for FREE
If you have a website or do any type of web development you have probably needed a server at some point. Not everybody has a full blown commercial web server at their disposal for development, experimenting, and testing their site. You may think that it is both expensive and complicated to have your own local web server.
You may think that it is both expensive and complicated to have your own local web server. Nothing Could be further from the truth!
Nothing could be further from the truth. True, you do need a few pieces of specialized software that can be complicated to install and configure. However, there is a wonder application bundle that has all of the key components of a web hosting server bundled up and configured in a simple wizard driven installer.
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