Creating Effective Presentations in PowerPoint

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Creating Effective Presentations in PowerPoint

• Pamela Conway Dir. Business Development
• CompuWorks Systems, Inc.

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What Makes a Presentation Effective?

• Three main elements
• Content
• Design
• Delivery

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Color

• Background v. foreground
• Avoid color associations
• Changing color on the fly
• Use color to emphasize

Before
After
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Fonts

• Types
• Serif
• San-serif
• Script
• Decorative

Sample of font types
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Fonts

• Size minimums
• Title Font between 36-44 point
• Main Body Font between 28-32 point
• First Level Sub-Point Font between 24-28 point
• Second Level Sub-Point Font between 24-26 point

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Fonts

• Avoid words with all upper case letters
• Avoid italics
• Do not use too much bold text
• Avoid using too many fonts no more than 2

Before
After
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Bullets

• Active verbs, no punctuation
• No more than 5-6 per page
• No more than 36 words
• No more than 2 levels
• 1 line of text per bullet
• Bullets into graphics?

Example
Example
Before
After
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Animation Action Settings

• Avoid too many types of transitions in one
  presentation
• Limit to providing highlights or use for emphasis
  
• Good motion v. bad motion
• What are Action Settings?

Example
Example
Example
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Graphics

• Graphic file types
• BMP uncompressed format created by Microsoft
• TIFF uncompressed used mostly for print
  purposes large file sizes
• GIF compressed BUT only renders up to 256
  colors
• JPG optimized for photos compression
  adjustable

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Graphics

• Recommendations
• Use JPG when possible
• Shrink photo size in other application
• Photoshop
• Fireworks
• GIF may work for medical scan, x-ray images

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Thank You!

• Pamela Conway
• CompuWorks Systems, Inc.
• pconway_at_compuworks.com
• www.compuworks.com/ppt