You've made it all the way to the final lesson. And in this lesson, we're going to talk about PowerPoint in presentation mode to show off all of your fine skills and content. We've been doing it a few times throughout this course already, but let's just do it one more time. You can either click on this little button in the lower right hand corner or go to slideshow menu on the ribbon. Let's just go to the ribbon for a moment. There are two little options under the monitors to draw to your attention.
If the presentation itself is not showing up on either the projector screen or your laptop correctly, or it's backwards, then check the monitor settings here. Below this setting you have a checkbox for Presenter View. When you use Presenter View, you should get a different view of the slide then is on the projector screen. Your view will include the speaker notes, which is very handy. Note that you can adjust the margins so That all your speaker notes fit on the screen without the need for scrolling. You can also adjust the font sizes to help those of us with eyesight that isn't quite what he used to be.
Back on our slideshow menu. If you don't have this box checked, your slideshow will be in presentation mode on the projector screen, but in edit mode on your laptop, this mode enables you to scroll through your slides during the presentation. Personally, I prefer using the presentation mode. So keep this box clicked. PowerPoint is very intuitive on how you advance slides. And I'm sure you'll figure this out on your own without any direction from me.
However, what very few of you know is that if during your presentation, you need to jump to a previous slide or perhaps you have extra slides in the appendix at the end. And you know the slide number you can simply type the slide number in using your keyboard and hit Enter, and PowerPoint will jump to that slide directly. We've all seen presenters who scroll through their entire deck of slides to get to the slide they're looking for to answer a question from the audience. So talk about annoying and distracting the audience as they watch you fast forward or rewind until you find that slide you're searching for. So that brings us to the end of this course on how to use PowerPoint, both from a tactical and a strategic perspective. Throughout this course, I've been challenging you to make your PowerPoint presentations look nothing like a PowerPoint presentation.
To illustrate some of the principles of PowerPoint, we've worked our way through how I created the 10 slides used in the introduction. What I haven't told you is that I developed this entire course on PowerPoint, using all of the features of PowerPoint itself. So how many slides Do you read Really think are in the final version? Turns out there's actually 184 slides in this one hour course. Are you surprised? Did it feel like that many slides.
Hopefully you appreciate my point. That is not the number of slides you have in your presentation. It's how you use PowerPoint as a visual aid to improve your message. Imagine how effective or rather ineffective this course would have been in the absence of using PowerPoint itself as the visual aid. I've also included a fun little bonus lesson with this course that'll help you set up a Family Feud style interactive template that you can use the next time you need to present another boring survey to your audience. Thank you so much for taking this course.
I hope that you found the ideas presented helpful and insightful. PowerPoint is a wonderful tool when used as a visual aid and not as a crutch. If you want to learn more about how to develop Killer presentations, I've developed another course that walks through that part of the process, and I encourage you to look for that. So until next time, I'm Blair cook.