I remember working for a boss who demanded one-page documents only. No matter how complicated the topic was. Even if it was a documentation of a 1-day meeting. That was part of his dream to go paperless.
I remember getting migraines and stomach upsets in my attempts to deliver the one-pagers. Sometimes I would cheat. Using legal paper size instead of A4 meant more texts. Using size 8 fonts instead of 12 meant the same thing. I got away with them on rare occasions when my boss was too busy to take notice. When he did notice (because he needed a magnifying glass to read my report) he would smile and shake his head as if to say - "Shame on you".
And I remember telling myself - "shame on me." A hundred words, more or less, and I have to cheat? I can do better than that. And I did do better. Without cheating. It was indeed a lesson on working within boundaries -something that proved to be more challenging than having all the freedom to do what I want to do.
Preparing presentations with Google Docs was another opportunity to apply that valuable lesson. There was so much information to share. My first draft was 10,000kb - and I couldn't upload to Scribd.com. I must have revised this tutorial 20x!
I'm now ready to post this tutorial. Just like the one-pagers, I hope I was able to capture the most important information -a much shorter version- but a concise presentation.
Hope you'll learn the basics...
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Google Docs Presentation is truly a good alternative to PowerPoint. I hope this tutorial will be useful for you.
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