In our second excerpt from our latest white paper How SmartDraw VP Reinvents PowerPoint®, we examine how SmartDraw VP significantly eases the planning and composition of your presentation – without even launching PowerPoint®.
Creating Visual Presentations with SmartDraw
Creating a truly visual presentation means more than taking an existing text-based presentation and replacing some of the bullets with visuals. You need to think visually, plan visually, and compose your presentation visually. SmartDraw, the world’s first visual processorTM, makes this possible.
With SmartDraw’s PowerPoint® builder you create your presentation visually in a storyboard format.
In the storyboard, each shape on the line represents a slide. The top area of the slide is the title. The bottom area contains the visual that will show below the title.
Insert an existing visual into each slide, or create a new one.
You can edit the visual in each slide by double-clicking on it. It opens in a new instance of SmartDraw so that you can edit it and set the sequencing. Closing the visual saves it back to your presentation storyboard.
When your presentation is complete, click “Build” and SmartDraw creates your entire PowerPoint® deck for you automatically.
You can also use your own PowerPoint® template.
You make changes to your presentation in SmartDraw not in PowerPoint®. Edit your slide shapes in SmartDraw and then export again to PowerPoint®.
You can remove slides from your presentation by pulling them off the line of the storyboard. Only the slides on the line are included when you export.
You can adjust the order of the slides by moving the slides around on the storyboard line.
When you export to PowerPoint®, the slides will be in the new order.
You can store slides that you want to use again in your own slide library by simply dragging them to the library panel.
Later you can drag slides from the library into new presentations. All of the visuals and their sequencing are preserved.
With SmartDraw’s PowerPoint® builder, no matter how many visuals you add, your whole presentation is contained in a single file. This makes them easier to manage and also makes it easy to make last minute changes. You never have to hunt down the source file for one of your charts, for example.
Be sure to download and read the full white paper, How SmartDraw VP Reinvents PowerPoint®.
If you don't own SmartDraw VP, you can either buy SmartDraw or upgrade to the latest version.
