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comes a time with every presentation
when you have to actually deliver it to
an audience
luckily PowerPoint comes with several
different tools that can help you give a
smooth professional-looking presentation
when you're ready there are many ways to
start playing your presentation for
example using the command on the quick
access toolbar the button at the bottom
of the window or the options on the
slideshow tab in this example we're
going to click the button here which
will take us to the first slide in the
presentation alternatively you could
press the f5 key on your keyboard to do
the same thing to go to the next slide
you can click your mouse or press the
spacebar on your keyboard you can also
use the arrow keys on your keyboard to
go backwards or forwards
you can also
menu in the bottom left corner that
appears only when you move your mouse
this gives you easy access to navigation
buttons and also some other options that
can help during your presentation have
you ever wanted to access something else
while you are in the middle of a
presentation for example maybe a website
or a file in another program all you
have to do is click screen then choose
show taskbar
now you can access the file explorer
your web browser and anything else that
you have pinned to your taskbar when
you're ready to exit the program all you
have to do is close or minimize the
window and you'll be taken straight back
to the fullscreen presentation
getting back to the menu another tool I
use pretty often is show all slides just
click the button here this displays a
thumbnail version of each slide in your
presentation so you can easily skip
ahead or go back you can access the same
feature by right-clicking anywhere on
the screen then choosing see all slides
now would be a good time to practice
using some of the drawing tools which
can help to call attention to specific
things in your presentation just open
the menu here and you can turn your
cursor into a pen a highlighter or even
a laser pointer first select the tool
you want then click and drag to draw
anywhere on the screen
this makes it easy to point out the most
successful fundraiser for example and
also the least successful drawing with
your mouse can be a little tricky so you
might want to try the feature out before
you use it in front of an audience to
erase any markings open the menu again
and choose one of these options when
you're done you can switch back to the
regular mouse pointer by deselecting the
current tool I think I'm ready to wrap
this up so I'm going to exit the
slideshow now and go back to PowerPoint
to do this just press escape on your
keyboard or navigate past the final
slide in your presentation or go to the
slide options menu and choose end show
before we leave PowerPoint will ask if
we want to keep the ink markings we just
made I'm going to keep them for now
which means that they stay on the slide
but we can delete them at any time
just select the mark then press Delete
or backspace on your keyboard what if
you're going to be using a second
display to give your presentation like a
projector or a separate monitor there's
actually a really cool feature called
presenter view that can give you extra
help behind the scenes here's how it
works
first start your presentation as usual
then go to the slide options menu next
choose show presenter view and you'll be
taken to a special set of tools that
only you can see the audience will just
see the presentation is normal the way
out is pretty different compared to
normal presentation mode but if you look
closely you'll find a lot of familiar
features for example here are most of
the options that we discussed earlier
including the pen tool the show all
slide button and also arrows for
navigation
there's even a place to keep track of
the time preview the upcoming slide and
reference any notes you've added all of
which can come in really handy when
you're done go ahead and click the
button that says end slideshow
there's just one more thing I'd like to
show you that can help with your
presentation depending on what you need
make sure that you're on the slideshow
tab then click setup slideshow and you
can access settings that control how
your presentation is played for instance
if you ever need your slideshow to run
on a loop maybe at a kiosk or a
tradeshow booth there's an option for
that here
you can also control which slides are
included in the presentation whether
they advance manually or automatically
and much more now you know how to
present your slideshow in PowerPoint
with a little practice and with so many
extra tools you'll be a better presenter
in no time