Now that you have created a presentation, you can make sure that the delivery is as well prepared as the presentation itself. PowerPoint 2000 offers a variety of ways to review and deliver presentations so that they are polished and professional.

The Slide Show feature allows you to preview your presentation on your computer. You can use the Slide Show to check a presentation before printing it or to prepare to show it electronically. By adding transitions to your presentation, you can help emphasize topic changes.

PREVIEW THE SLIDE SHOW

1. On the Slide Show menu, click View Show.

2. After the first slide appears, click anywhere on the screen to move through the presentation.

3. At the last slide, click anywhere to end the slide show.

HIGHLIGHTING PARTS OF THE SLIDE SHOW

You can use highlighting while you are giving the presentation to add emphasis to important information.

Highlight A Slide During A Slide Show

1. On the Slide Show menu, click View Show.

2. Click the right-mouse button, point to Pointer Options and then click Pen. The mouse pointer becomes a pen.

3. Click and hold the pen on the slide. Drag the pen around the words you want to highlight until a line encircles the text.

4. Click the right-mouse button, point to Pointer Options and then click Arrow. The pen changes back to the mouse pointer.

5. Click anywhere on the slide to advance to the next slide.

6. To save your changes, on the File menu, click Save.

USE THE SLIDE SHOW MENU

1. On the Slide Show menu, click Set Up Show.

2. Click Browsed at a kiosk and notice that PowerPoint automatically checks the Loop continuously box.

3. Under Slides, click All. Notice the box at the bottom of the menu that lets you select how slides are advanced--manually or based on slide timings. The selections that make it easy for you to set up a self-running presentation are all now available in a single menu. Leave as the default by clicking OK.

4. On the Slide Show menu, click View Show. The presentation runs in a continuous loop.

5. To end the show, press ESC.