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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

By : Russell Anderson-Williams
Book Image

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

The play button


The play button is located down in the bottom-right hand corner and is what we use to put our Prezis into show mode to check that they look okay during the design phase. It is then later used used of course when our Prezis are actually being presented. There is a lovely new feature that most forget about or just don't notice that could help you when designing a Prezi to play on its own.

You can see in the preceding screenshot that the bottom-right arrow key is displaying three separate time settings:

  • 4 seconds

  • 10 seconds

  • 20 seconds

To access these, simply click and hold the right arrow key with your mouse. When they appear, you can select the timing you'd like your Prezi to play at.

This is useful for presentations that don't have a presenter to talk through them. They might be showed in your company's reception on a flat screen, or at a trade show for people to see. However and whenever you decide to let your Prezi play on its own, make sure you get the timings right so that people...