Have you ever been faced with the need to better "organize" your navigation for a presentation?  
 
Here's what I mean:  its common knowledge that when you create/publish a presentation, the result is a simple listing of all of your slides.  Nothing fancy....and on a scale from 1 to 5 from the perspective of "organizational structure", its not exactly rating too high.  And not too user-friendly either.
 
Most of us who have been publishing Breeze content know full well what happens when you have a long list of slides, and worse yet, long titles for slides.  The resulting nav/outline panel becomes chuck-full of information which can make navigating to specific content slides a chore. I mean think about it...haven't you ever wanted to get to, or return to a certain slide but forgot where it was, or forgot what the content was about?
 
What I'm proposing here is a remedy (of sorts) to help alleviate the problem as described above.  Just something to think about.  And who knows, you might find this useful...or not.
 
2 things we can do to help organize the nav panel and both are exceptionally easy to pull off.
 
1. Create "divider" slides that contain no specific content; just a main title using a version of a Title Master slide.  These are merely used to designate "chapters" in a presentation.  I realize that in shorter presentations, that might not be practical, but in an environment where I need to create e-Learning, it's helped to keep content organized in a fashion that makes sense for the learning objectives.  Publishing with very short titles (if and when possible), combined with divider slides, makes for an easier trip through the nav/outline panel.
 
2. Modify the Slide Properties.  This next technique is even easier, although I have to admit that there's a bit more up-front work to do.  But don't sweat it...once you see the payoff, perhaps you'll agree that it's worth it!   Here's the gist:
Open the Slide Properties dialog box (From the Breeze menu in PowerPoint, trace down and select Slide Props).  Then click the Edit button.  All that you need to do is re-write the slide name BUT the trick here is to add several spaces using the spacebar on your keyboard.  I create this "forced indentation" on all slides that appear within a specific chapter, or between divider slides.  In tests that I've done previously, 5 spaces seem to work pretty darn well.  The key is this: anything you type when overwriting the slide name is used during the publishing process.  By adding spaces before the slide title's name, we're ultimately going to create the effect of indented slide titles in the nav/outline panel!  The result, visually speaking, is an organized, easy-to-follow navigation scheme for your presentation.
 
I've included a screen shot of a recent presentation that I hope will demonstrate the effect I've described above.
 
So...give it a shot on your next preso...and better yet, if you have a presentation share it in the Showcase!
 
All the best,  
 
Rob