Presentations software has become quite popular in the last several years, because it is a relatively easy program to learn and people can create attractive materials for giving talks. Keep in mind, however, that there are various ways to use Presentations:

• To create a "slide show" on the computer that could either run on a stand alone computer, like at a general meeting or open house display, or could be projected if you have a computer and some type of projection device (like an LCD panel and overhead).
• To create a set of overheads that could be projected using a normal overhead. These overheads, however, would have more pizzazz then just a WP document using large fonts, since there would be a common color scheme throughout the overheads and a consistent use of particular font styles and sizes. If you have access to a color printer and can make color overheads, your overheads could be quite impressive. Even if you do not have a color printer, if you select your background carefully, the overheads will look nicer than if you used WordPerfect and creating them will take less time.
• To create traditional 35mm slides by printing slides to a film recorder (you print to this special device and then take the 35mm film to a developer). Since this film recorder is fairly expensive (like $5,000 and up), you could elect to take your slide file to a company that provides this service.
• To publish your slide show on the World Wide Web. Presentations will let you convert each slide to a graphic image which you may place in one or more HTML documents.

To take advantage of all of the features offered by Presentations, like transitions and sounds, you need to be giving a "live" talk on a computer. Even if you don't have the necessary hardware to do that, Presentations offers features to help you create great looking overheads and handouts.

Keeping this background information in mind, you are now ready to move into how to create a "slide set."

Learning Corel Presentations 8.0