PowerPoint Presentations

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PowerPoint Presentations

• Its not about your PowerPoint or youits about
  your audience.
• Dave Paradi author of Guide to PowerPoint

www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com
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PowerPoint Tips

• Clear is more important than cool
• Focus on what audience needs
• Technology is not your message
• Technology helps people understand your message

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PowerPoint Tips

• Do not read slides
• Use appropriate text size and style
• Use high contrast slides and fonts
• Use bullet points instead of sentences
• Use simple diagrams or charts

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PowerPoint Tips

• Know how to use equipment
• Use consistent layout
• Do not use excessive animation
• Add additional information to slide

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Design Improvements

• Dark background
• Contrasting font
• No distracting backgrounds (photos, graphs)
• Consistent text placeholder location

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Text Improvements

• Font style should be sans serif
• Ariel
• Tahoma
• Verdana

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Text Improvements

• Text Size
• Title 36 point to 44 point
• Body 24 point to 32 point
• Anything below 24 is too small

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Text Improvements

• Use sentences for quotes only
• Bullet points share key ideas
• 6 by 6 guideline
• Each bullet should have no more than six words
• Each slide should have no more than six bullets

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Clip Art

• Outdated clip art outdated speaker

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Digital Photography

• Better than clip art
• Display then move on

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Photography as background

• Not an effective background

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Let Photos Speak for themselves
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Conclusion

• Keep it simple
• Use same layout
• Support your key points
• Do not distract audience with PowerPoint