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Slide Prep: Slide Preparation

The quality of your presentation is very important for getting your points across to a large audience. DAC strives to supply you with the best support in both presentation equipment and assistance. Please read this document carefully while preparing your presentation.

     DAC provides professionally prepared templates and a help desk to guide you in preparing your presentation. It is obligatory that you pass a rough draft of your presentation on to this help desk at slides@dac.com at an early stage and keep communicating improvements with them; you will receive feedback which has been considered very valuable by DAC speakers in the past. We want you to make good use of this service to improve your presentation and make it pleasing to the eye and effective in communicating the important ideas.

     The links in this section provide you with an elaborate manual on how to go about preparing your slides.

     Rules and Recs, lists "Rules and Recommendations" from which we urge you not to deviate. Especially the rule of not using logo's and affiliations anywhere else except on the title page is being checked very carefully.

     The most important features of the templates we provide, are explained in:  Using Templates

     If you are starting with a totally new presentation for your DAC talk you should begin by reading Starting from Scratch.

     When you already have a presentation ready which you want to convert to one of our templates, you have to read the information in: Converting Slides very carefully.

     Professionally designed templates are offered to you in the DAC Templates section.

      Some valuable tips and tricks are listed in the FAQs.

      You should already have gotten a copy of the AV release form and have sent it to us. In case you didn't do it yet you can find the instructions here: AV Release Form.

      For those of you you have been selected to be video taped in order to be published on the web with this video next to your PowerPoint slides, it is imperative that you carefully read: For Videoed Speakers. There may be some issues there which you may not expect and which need your special attention.

      See the Talk Prep tab for tips on converting your written paper to a technical presentation.

      A list of available equipment can be found under the At DAC tab.