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Even More Keynote / Rehearse a Presentation
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Now, in this chapter we will do this. We will rehearse your presentation and there can be a lot of different reasons why you'd want to rehearse your presentation. The first and foremost, of course, is that you will get better at giving your presentation and your presentation may have a lot riding on it. You may be giving this in front of a board member or some decision maker about your product or your pitch. You may be giving it to an audience of a hundred or 500 investors at a stockholder meeting or at a Keynote speech like Steve Jobs does at things like MacWorld and things like that. So again, there can be a lot riding on it; either your reputation or thousands if not millions of dollars worth of IPO investments or whatever the case may be, there's a lot of good reasons to rehearse your slideshow. And the way you do that, very simply, is just go to the view menu and click on rehearse slideshow and what you'll see after you click on that is the presenter window. So let's take a look here. Remember that you'll start your slideshow from wherever the currently selected slide is, so we'll select the first slide and then go view rehearse slideshow and then what you're looking at here is the presenter's display. Now, this assumes that there is an external display connected to your computer where the external display would be the one that is displaying the actual slideshow. You're seeing your current slide and your next slide coming up. You're also seeing the time and the elapsed time. Now, the elapsed time, the timer won't start until you actually start to navigate through the presentation. So if I hit the enter key on the keyboard or if I click on the mouse, which is how you would advance through your slideshow, that is how you would start the timer. Now, notice what's coming up here next. Also notice that you are not seeing my mouse move around at all and that is a slide build. So if I click, it will give me this and whatever animation I have on the next slide is going to make the rest of the slide appear so I can click and continue to move through the presentation, so I can kind of build, in practice anyway, building anticipation and then delivering it with the click of the mouse. So I'm going to press escape when I'm done and I know that my presentation is going to take me five minutes, ten minutes, two hours and I have, again, just a better idea of what it's going to look like. Now, also I want to point out in this module how you would modify your presenter display, which you just saw and that is through the Keynote menu, click on preferences and then notice here there's a button called presenter display. So you can use this alternate display to view your presenter information, which is the default. Whether or not you show your notes, again, generally your notes are for you. They help you remember or remind yourself of what to say. So that's a common one that people change. You can show the elapsed time or time remaining and the ready to advance indicator would just put a green bar above the screen. Let's just open all of these things up or let's select all these options here and then go back and click on view once again and rehearse the slideshow. Let me go back here, start at the beginning, view, rehearse slideshow and now you get the green bar, which is ready to advance and when I start, the elapsed time will begin. Any notes that I have will appear in the notes section. So now you can see that in the bottom and why that might be important to enable in your particular presentation. So once again, very straightforward, rehearse your presentation, lot of good reasons, the click steps, view, rehearse slideshow and then Keynote preferences is how you will change what appears in that presenter display. Also as a last note, remember that this rehearsal of the slideshow, nothing changes about the slideshow itself. You haven't set any kind of narration, you haven't done any kind of slide timings or anything like that. You have not recorded your presentation. All you've done is you've just done a practice run and you know how much time you're taking to get through your slideshow as it is.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple iWork 08 |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33851 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-50-X |
| Release Date: | 2008-02-07 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 105 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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