Secrets of the Office Masters: Anticipating Questions with Hidden Slides

If you can anticipate a question from your audience, you'll be miles ahead if you have a slide ready to answer it. For example, this first slide might elicit the question, "What percentage of the people attending are employees?"

In anticipation of the question, you could construct a slide like the one shown next, and place it in the presentation immediately after the first slide. Then make the second slide hidden (Slide Show, Hide Slide), add an action button to the first slide that shows the hidden slide, and add an action button to the hidden slide that returns to the presentation.

→ For details on linking to a hidden slide and returning to the main presentation, see "Using Hidden Slides to Anticipate Questions".

By constructing the presentation in this way, if someone asks the question, "What percentage of the people attending are employees?" you can click the (i) information icon, give the answer, and continue with your presentation. If nobody asks the question, you don't click the (i) icon, and the presentation proceeds normally—the second slide will never appear.