Tutorial for Beginners:
a Presentation

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Portable Presenter is a package designed to give presentations. Not everyone is trained to give presentations, and certainly not in combination with PPresenter. This set of pages guides absolute beginners stepwise into a PPresenter-presentation. Experienced speakers may skip the first chapters.

Giving a presentation is the most scary event for the average person, above fear of heights and bugs (living bugs, to be specific). Of course, a bit of tension is very useful: it keeps you concentration when you speak. However, you easily get overstressed, which degrades your story. The best way to reduce stress is be prepared!.

With the danger of being boring and over-detailed, I'll guide you through all steps of a presentation:

Of course, this is only my personal view, but at least it is an educated view.

The start: Define a Subject.

 
Portable Presenter is written and maintained by Mark Overmeer. Copyright (C) 2000-2002, Free Software Foundation FSF.