Help me with Power Point-- Part I

Years ago I visited a church where they had an overhead projector and a lady at the front switched through the cells (sheets) with lyrics of the songs or the words of the hymn being sung. The pastor on certain Sundays would even use it for his outline. At the time I thought, well this is really cool because people are standing and looking up instead of looking down at a hymnal. Power Point was a brand new program and it could print out the slides, which in turn you would use a thermostatic copier to make the cells for the overhead. Later this church upgraded to a slide projector, and a person would actually use an early version of power point with colored backgrounds and make a more professional slide by taking a picture of the screen with a 35mm camera and printing the slides. Not bad and really high tech. Then came the LCD Projector, the one device which made it so you could actually project the image directly from the computer onto the screen with no transfer. So is that all that changed?
In this article I want to touch on the fact that now with the automation of power point you can actually do a lot more than move the slides forward and backwards. With the overhead you always had the option of jumping to a different slide, there was an order, but it was loose, literally. If you happened to drop the slides, you would have to identify the next one (which could take time). If you wanted to have a hymn sing, it was easy (just alphabetize all the slides in a box). Then came the slide projector, the service became much more ordered because you could only move forward and backwards. If you wanted to change the order, you would either have to backup or jump forward several slides. What's new? Many people today think that power point is very much like that old slide projector (except no need to make the 35mm slides). In the next part of this blog series I hope to show you how you can maximize your performance during a presentation. How to loosen up and go with the flow rather than getting embarrassed because the worship leader felt he should sing the refrain again (this happens a ton!).