Make Slide Decks with Archival and Legacy Value

Slide decks have become a form of documentation within organizations. Other than supporting the live talk in front of an audience, slides also function as an archival or legacy piece. This chapter discusses the archival methods that can maximize a slide deck's potential to do the heavy lifting of communicating technical information beyond the presentation itself. By making full use of the Notes or Presenter Notes feature in slide programs, slide decks become, essentially, documentation repositories, or ?>deck docs?>. Hidden slides can be a great advantage in a presentation setting. This chapter also discusses how to save slides in the best format for information retrieval. Realizing the slides?> potential as mission-critical information repositories demands that a strategic use of notes becomes part of the everyday workflow.