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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

By : Russell Anderson-Williams
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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

By: Russell Anderson-Williams

Overview of this book

Prezi is a tool for delivering presentations in a linear or non-linear format. This cloud-based software enables users to structure presentations on an infinite canvass in a way that is much more engaging and visually stimulating to the audience. "Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations" is a must read for anyone already using Prezi who wants to take their presentations to the next level. It covers all of the technical elements of the software, whilst also looking at the practicalities of using Prezi in a business environment. This book covers all the technical elements of Prezi and also teaches the reader how to think for Prezi, and approach their design in the best way. This is an essential resource for people who want to use Prezi seriously. As well as covering best practices for inserting imagery, sound, and video, this book also covers topics for business users like collaborating and sharing Prezis online, using Prezi at a meeting to brain storm with overseas colleagues, and how to 'Prezify' PowerPoint or Keynote slides. "Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations" will escalate you from Prezi user to master with ease.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Importing slides into Prezi


A brand new feature available in Prezi is the ability to import PowerPoint slides from the Insert menu. To help explain how to use this feature, we'll use the PowerPoint slides shown in the following screenshot. They are very simple slides that have imagery, graphs, and, text.

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Once these slides are inserted onto our canvas, we will be able to manipulate all of the individual elements such as text, images, and graphs. This is something that Prezi users haven't been able to do for a long time, and is another great example of Prezi listening to the needs of its users.

The Insert PPT function

To import your PowerPoint slides into Prezi, follow the given steps:

  1. Click Insert and then PPT from the bubble menu.

  2. Select your PowerPoint slides to import and click Open.

  3. You will then see a sidebar appear on the right of your Prezi screen like the one in the following screenshot.

  4. Once all of your slides are loaded into the right-hand panel, you can either drag individual slides...