Much of the business world relies on presentations to inform, educate, demonstrate and convince audiences.  Those presentations, more often than not delivered with PowerPoint, and this week we share an important capability - creating a non-linear (NL) presentation.

The vast majority of presentations are delivered in a serial, or sequential fashion.  But customers sometimes ask questions that are not on the current slide, or the next slide.  A NL presentation is not constrained that way.  It allows the presenter to go from any slide, to any other slide.  You can go to the slide that answers the customers question, and then return to where you were.  The technique uses hyperlinks to create a Navigation Menu that controls which slide is active.

The process is too complex to be described in our TechTIP eNewsletter, but we have created a demonstration presentation that uses this technique.  You can request the presentation by sending an email to editor@CorbittAssociates.com, Subject: NL PPT DEMO.  Once you have reviewed the demo, and understand the basic concept, you could create your own NL presentation.

Our COLUMBUS® navigation methodology incorporates NL navigation, and more!  In addition to NL Menu Driven navigation, it provides conditional branching, and drill-down capability.  These drill-down support slides are hidden from the audience, and only accessible by you, when extra information is required.  Go from any slide to any slide. Never get lost again.  Click the globe on the left to learn more...