Slide Prep:
Using DAC Templates

     The provided templates can be found in the templates section of this part of the DAC web-site. All the templates have been tested and proven to be very well suited for presenting the type of presentations in a technical community like DAC. We urge you to pick one of the provided templates.

     If, however, you feel the need to deviate from those, you have to send an example of your suggestion to slides@dac.com in order to have it tested on any irregularities and to be given helpful hints on how to improve your design if necessary.

Features of sample presentation
     We have included some examples that show the use of animation. Except for "Binate covering problem" they have all been made in Powerpoint95 and 97 and as such show that animation can be done within one slide. Sometimes it is wise to break up the animation over several slides so as not to lose track of what is going on. "Binate covering problem" (originally authored by Olivier Coudert) is an example of an animation in PPT-4 which makes it necessary to make a different slide for each animation step thus requiring much thought before starting to create the animation as every change will force you to make that correction on each slide involved in the animation.

Although we use PowerPoint XP at conference, the program is upward compatible. We decided to use older versions for the templates so that those of you who are still working with an older version will not have any problems. They all convert perfectly well to the newer versions of PowerPoint.

Guidelines PPT95-97-00 presentation
Guidelines PPT-4 presentation
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• This is a stand-alone presentation and as such needs more information on a slide than if someone is presenting.

• Big, bold fonts in "sans-serif" (Helvetica/Arial) are the rule for projected presentations.

• Simple, contrasting colors.

• Effective use of animation.