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Tips For Effective Powerpoint

This document provides 10 tips for creating and presenting effective PowerPoint presentations: 1. Keep points simple using introductions, conclusions, and subheadings. 2. Keep backgrounds clean and simple to avoid distractions. 3. Keep text clear using minimum 24pt font size, 36-44pt for headings, and high contrast colors. The document continues with additional tips such as including good pictures on each slide, using full sentences for titles, animating slides quickly and simply, engaging the audience beyond just reading slides, controlling the presentation, being careful about adding sound, and providing clear handouts.

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Tips For Effective Powerpoint

This document provides 10 tips for creating and presenting effective PowerPoint presentations: 1. Keep points simple using introductions, conclusions, and subheadings. 2. Keep backgrounds clean and simple to avoid distractions. 3. Keep text clear using minimum 24pt font size, 36-44pt for headings, and high contrast colors. The document continues with additional tips such as including good pictures on each slide, using full sentences for titles, animating slides quickly and simply, engaging the audience beyond just reading slides, controlling the presentation, being careful about adding sound, and providing clear handouts.

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Effective PowerPoint

10 top tips for designing and presenting great slide shows

1. Keep the points simple


If it is a book or report look for the contents page. Identify any chapters that you think maybe of particular relevance and focus on them. Again start from the introduction or the conclusions. You can find your way through a chapter or section by using the subheadings.

Use the contents page Start with introductions and conclusions Use subheadings

2. Keep the background simple


Keeps a clear, clean design

2. Keep the background simple


Keeps a clear, clean design Avoids distractions

2. Keep the background simple


Keeps a clear, clean design Avoids distractions Allows good contrast

2. Keep the background simple


Keeps a clear, clean design Avoids distractions Allows good contrast Prevents confusion

2. Keep the background simple


Keeps a clear, clean design Avoids distractions Allows good contrast Prevents confusion Avoid PowerPoints own templates

3. Keep the text clear


24 pt minimum 36-44 pt for heading Contrast colours
Good Bad Good Bad Bad Good Bad Good Bad
18 point

20 point

24 point

28 point

36 point Good

Good Bad

40 point
Good Bad point

Bad

Good 44

3. Keep the text clear


24 point minimum 40-44 for heading Contrast colours Dont use black on white

3. Keep the text clear


24 point minimum 40-44 for heading Contrast colours Dont use black on white

3. Keep the text clear


24 point minimum 40-44 for heading Contrast colours Dont use black on white

3. Keep the text clear


24 point minimum 40-44 for heading Contrast colours Dont use black on white

4. Always have a good picture


Photographs are fantastic Cartoons areJust fun Diagrams are useful it! a slide? No picture? Why

SPEAK

My PowerPoint presentation went so well, I had it made into a tattoo!

5. Use a full sentence as your title


Show where you are going!

6. Animate quickly and simply


Avoid transitions

6. The next slide?

6. Animate quickly and simply


Avoid transitions For graphics use: For text use:
Appear Wipe, from left (very fast) Fade (very fast)

Appear

Fade

Dissolve in

6. Animate quickly and simply


Nothing fancy
It will only end up really annoying your poor audience

Keep it quick
Or you try to read or recognise it before it has fully developed!

7. Never just read the slide


This is the thing that annoys more people about PowerPoint presentations than anything else.

It is boring!
Keep something back!

8. Take control of the show


Use B or W keys Change to pen (Ctrl P) E to erase Hide the pointer (Ctrl H) Move to specific slides

9. Be very careful with sound


for learning languages Great No whooshes No chimes French Franais No lasers Hello Bonjour No typewriters Goodbye Au revoir

Thank you Merci or adding a bit of realism!

10. Give out great handouts


People will listen! Dont use Handout option Send to Word?

Thank you for your attention

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