MS Office Tip: Black out your Powerpoint Slideshow
via lifehacker
At times during a Powerpoint presentation, you need to redirect your audience’s attention away from the screen and towards yourself. By pressing the B key, you temporarily black out the screen.
This allows you to control the flow of your talk and keep your audience’s focus where it needs to be.
Just make sure you’ve got an alternate light source to illuminate you during these moments. You do not want to dilate your audience’s pupils by darkening the room and then shock them when returning to the slide show.
Pressing B a second time restores the presentation to its previous display. Thanks to Travis Hudson for the tip.
How did I not know about this!?
October 21st, 2005 at 5:46 pm
Thanks for the great tip! As a side note - what brought me to this site was actually a combination of things… MpCon, ACM, curiosity… Well, I see that you are the founder of the MpCon lan party and I also saw in the past you held this as a fundraiser for ACM. I was wondering if you would still like to volunteer or allow us to contiue this very well established lan party. If you would not like to run it, but wouldn’t mind us running it, I would be more than happy to still list you as the founder and recognize that without your past efforts, none of this would be possible. Considering you are not at UMD anymore - or at least no one is able to find you - I wasn’t sure if you were still going to run the lan party. I think it’s an awesome thing in terms of how many people have shown up in the past years, and I would love to see it contiue to grow.
Thank you for your time,
Nate Whitehead