Special Edition Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

Chapter 9. Presenting a Slide Show

Patrice-Anne Rutledge

In this chapter

• Understanding Slide Shows 140

• Setting Up a Show 140

• Rehearsing Timings 143

• Recording a Voice Narration 144

• Working with Custom Shows 147

• Reusing Slides in Other Presentations 148

• Viewing Your Show 150

• Packaging Presentations onto a CD 156

• Using the PowerPoint Viewer 158

• Troubleshooting 159

Understanding Slide Shows

After you create all the slides in your presentation, you’ll want to plan how you’re going to present them in a slide show. Fortunately, PowerPoint makes it easy to set up and rehearse your presentation, as well as configure it to work with a projector. In PowerPoint 2007, all the tools you need to manage slide shows are on the Slide Show tab, shown in Figure 9.1.

Figure 9.1. Set ...