Making Your Points With Power

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Making Your Points With Power

• Developed by Steve Snow

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Introduction

• Objectives
• Demo PowerPoint design tips
• Emphasize how not to PowerPoint
• Offer general presentation tips

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Know Your Audience

• Present information relevant to this audience
• Stay focused on the main topic
• Be brief
• Avoid Bird Walks

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Choosing Colors Part 1

• Use colors with pop, meaning the words stand
  out against your background color
• Dark backgrounds require light colors like white
  or gold

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Choosing Colors Part 2

• Red text on a blue background produces a purple
  haze

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Choosing Colors Part 3

• Green text on a red background looks fuzzy

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Choosing Colors Part 4

• Light backgrounds need dark colors like red or
  blue
• This color changing is so much fun!

• Dark backgrounds need light colorslike white or
  gold

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Choosing Font Style Part 1

• Arial, Verdana, or Tahoma
• This is Arial 28 pt and you can easily read it.
• This is Tahoma 28 pt.
• This is Verdana 28 pt and it is very easy to read
  when projected.

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Choosing Font Style Part 2

• Times New Roman or Courier
• Times New Roman 28 pt is difficult to read.
• Courier 28 pt is very thin, even disconnected,
  when presented with a low quality projector.

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Choosing Font Style Part 3

• Welcome to Janes World is in Comic Sans 32 pt
  is a good font for a PLAYFUL presentation
• HAPPY HALLOWEEN! is in Chiller 32 pt and is
  difficult to read. It is a FUN font but use it
  sparingly and for emphasis.
• Word Art is good

• Word Art

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Choosing Font Size

• Make sure lettering is big enough that people in
  the back of a room can read it.

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Chunking Text

• Reading many lines of text tires the audience out
  and distracts their attention from you and the
  excellent points you are making. Chunk
  information. I think four lines of text is
  enough in a chunk. If you are listing bullets of
  information as you are suppose to be doing in a
  PowerPoint presentation you shouldnt have this
  problem.

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Using Bullets Part 1

• Type phrases not sentences
• Maintain parallel structure
• Use the 666 Rule
• 6 words per bullet
• 6 bullets per slide
• 6 word slides in a row

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Using Bullets Part 2

• PowerPoint provides a variety of bullets
• Some are basic
• Others may surprise you
• Select bullets that enhance your presentation

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Use Spell Check Part 1

• Mayk use of spell checkker!

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Use Spell Check Part 2

• Ode To My Spell CheckerI have a spelling
  checkerit came with my PCIt plainly marks for
  my revue,Mistake I cannot sea.I've run this
  poem threw it,I'm sure your please too no.It's
  letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled
  me sew.

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Adding Graphics
GIF VS. JPEG
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Graphics Size Part 1

• Klamath Falls, Oregon

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Graphic Size Part 2
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Optimizing JPEGS
Size 15.7 KB
Size 25.9 KB
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Finding Graphics

• On the Web
• Microsoft - http//office.microsoft.com/en-us/clip
  art/default.aspx
• Google www.google.com IMAGES
• Create it yourself
• Create in Photoshop
• Digital camera
• Scanner
• Grab from Video

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Dont clutter
Color available
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Using Animation

• Flying

• Dissolve

• Blinds

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Using Charts Part 1
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Using Charts - Part 2

• Regional Sales (in millions)

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Resource Links

• Be sure links work
• UNCWOW www.uncwow.org
• Presenters University www.presentersuniversity.c
  om

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Summary

• Today, we have
• Viewed PowerPoint design tips
• Explored how not to PowerPoint
• Modeled general presentation tips

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Do remember to

• Thank the audience for their attention