{"id":13,"date":"2013-02-14T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soft-answer.co.uk\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2015-07-05T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T16:04:44","slug":"presentation-control-panel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.soft-answer.co.uk\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"Presentation Control Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soft-answer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/PCPIcon.png\" alt=\"PCP Icon\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18\" \/><br \/>\nWelcome to the home of Presentation Control Panel, an add-in for Microsoft&#8217;s PowerPoint that is designed to make it easier to present on-screen and in-print presentations.<\/p>\n<p>When preparing a presentation, you may want to provide your audience with handouts containing the slides you&#8217;re about to show them.\u00a0 The problem is that if your slides include animation effects, they can become extremely cluttered and difficult to read when printed.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is simple&#8230; produce an on-screen version and an in-print version which will be used when printing handouts.\u00a0 If your presentation is small, this is fairly straightforward, but what if you&#8217;re producing a 2 day training course with hundreds of slides for example?\u00a0 What if one particular part of your show requires 30 or so slides to achieve the desired result and the in-print version only requires 5?\u00a0 Flipping the visibility can be time consuming and extremely tedious and what happens if you miss a few?<\/p>\n<p>This is the exact situation I found myself in.\u00a0 I was producing a training course for my employers and I had quite a few slides that looked awful when printed, so I created some in-print versions.\u00a0 But as the presentation grew, flipping between on-screen and in-print versions became a problem.\u00a0 Add to this the fact that I needed to be able to include customer specific content that I could guarantee wouldn&#8217;t be shown when the same presentation was used to train someone else, and it became clear I had a need for some software assistance and so, Presentation Control Panel (or PCP for short) was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the home of Presentation Control Panel, an add-in for Microsoft&#8217;s PowerPoint that is designed to make it easier to present on-screen and in-print presentations. When preparing a presentation, you may want to provide your audience with handouts containing the slides you&#8217;re about to show them.\u00a0 The problem is that if your slides include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soft-answer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soft-answer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soft-answer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soft-answer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soft-answer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.soft-answer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"http:\/\/www.soft-answer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soft-answer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}