Dos and Donts

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Dos and Donts
Take care in choosing display fonts
Sans Serif (36pt) Verdana Bold Arial Black Arial
Bold Avoid Arial Narrow
Serif Fonts (36 pt) Times Roman Bold Garamond
Bold Century Bold AvoidCourier
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Dos and Donts
Take care in choosing display fonts
San Serif (16 pt) Arial Bold Use large
lettering. Remember, people across the training
room should be able to read the text with ease.
Use the largest type sizes possible.
Serif Fonts (16 pt) Times New Roman Bold Use
large lettering. Remember, people across the
training room should be able to read the text
with ease. Use the largest type sizes possible.
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Dos and Donts
Five things to do (or to avoid) 3
Backgrounds should not steal (kill) the
show(Annoyance factor 37)

• Use one of two color schemes
• light text on a dark background, or
• dark text on a light background

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Dos and Donts
Dark text on a light background
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Dos and Donts
Never use light colors on a light background
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Dos and Donts
Five things to do (or to avoid) 3
Backgrounds should not steal (kill) the show

• Avoid poor color combinations

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Easy on the eyes?
No, not at all. But hey, you dont have to see
an optometrist. Anyway, not yet.
Its only the color scheme and choice of font
that makes it difficult to read this slide.
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And how about this one?
No, no improvement at all. But hey, you still
dont have to see an optometrist.
Its still the color scheme and choice of font
that makes it difficult to read this slide.
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Dos and Donts
Five things to do (or to avoid) 3
Backgrounds should not steal (kill) the show

• Avoid poor color combinations
• Dont use busy or arty backgrounds

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Dos and Donts
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Dos and Donts
Backgrounds should not steal the show

• Avoid poor color combinations
• Dont use distracting backgrounds in teaching
  slides

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Dos and Donts
Backgrounds should not steal (kill) the show Tips

• Colors combinations that work well
• White or yellow text on dark blue (navy shade) or
  dark purple
• dark blue or black or dark purple text on a warm
  beige background

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Dos and Donts
Backgrounds should not steal (kill) the show Tips
Colors combinations to avoid
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Dos and Donts
Backgrounds should not steal (kill) the show

• Tips
• Avoid dark backgrounds in a poorly-lit room, or
• Light backgrounds in a well-lit room

• Avoid generic backgrounds change templates
  to suit your purpose
• Be consistent with backgrounds, styles and
  transition effects

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Dos and Donts
Five things to do (or to avoid) 4

• Beware of the bells and whistles
• (Annoyance factor 46.8)

• It does not improve a training presentation
• Participants should focus on your content
• Youre busy with training, not marketing

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Dos and Donts

• Beware of the bells and whistles
• Tips
• Think twice before animating text (and
  graphics) 
• The following bells and whistles are for selling
  and entertaining, not for teaching

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Dos and Donts
Beware of the bells and whistles 
Keep these tips in mind

• Dont make text graphics stretch,
  strip and swiwel

• fly in

from all
directions

• flash,

zoom
and

• peek or crawl across the screen

• or stutter an on-screen

sentence
.
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Dos and Donts

• Beware of the bells and whistles
• Tips

• Animate to zoom in on detail or to emphasize
• Cut the sound effects they distract and annoy

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Dos and Donts
Five things to do (or to avoid) 5
Use visuals wisely

• Use graphics/pictures to illustrate or enhance a
  point
• Retention after 3 days with visuals 65
  Retention without visuals 10

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Dos and Donts
Use visuals wisely

• Tips
• Avoid pictures from the generic clipart folder