powerpoint slide tips

8/12/2019 PowerPoint Slide Tips

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MAKING POWERPOINTSLIDES

The DOs and DONTs of making PowerPoints

Tips to be Covered

OutlinesSlide StructureFonts, Color, & BackgroundPictures and ImagesSpelling and Grammar

Final Notes


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Outline

Make your 1 st or 2 nd slide a brief outline of yourpresentation

Ex: previous slide

Follow the order of your outline for the rest of thepresentation

Only place main points on the outline slideEx: Use the titles of each slide as main points

Slide Structure Good

Write in bullet-point form, not long sentences

Try not to exceed 4-5 points per slide

Avoid wordiness: use key words and phrases instead


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Slide Structure - Bad

This page contains too many words for apresentation slide, so it looks like a nasty wall oftext. Yuck! It is not written in bullet-point form,making it difficult for your audience to look at andread. Although there are the same number of pointson this slide as the previous slide, it looks much morecomplicated (and boring). In short, your audiencewill spend too much time trying to read thisparagraph.

Fonts - Good

Use standard fonts like Times New Roman or Arial

Use different size fonts for main points andsecondary points ( PowerPoint does this automatically )

This font is 26-point, the main point font is 29-point,and the title font is 44-point


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Fonts - Bad

If you use a small font, your audience will strain their eyes.

CAPITALIZE ONLY WHEN NECESSARY. IT ISDIFFICULT TO READ AND SEEMS LIKE YOURESHOUTING. AAARRRGGGHHHH!!

Dont use a complicated fontor one that is difficult to readclearly.

Color - Good

Use a color of font that contrasts sharply with thebackground

Ex: Black or dark font on white background, or lightfont on a dark background

Use color to emphasize a point

But only use this occasionally


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Color - Bad

Using a font color that does not contrast with thebackground color is hard to readUsing color for decoration is distracting andannoying .Using a different color for each point is unnecessaryTrying to b e cre a tive with co lor ca n a lso b e b a d

Background - Good

Use backgrounds and slide designs that areattractive, simple, and dont mess up your font

Use the same background consistently throughoutyour presentation


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Background Bad

Avoid backgrounds that are distracting or difficultto read from

Always be consistent with the background that youuse

Pictures and Images - Good

Try to use pictures, clip art, or graphs rather thanjust words

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Pictures and Images - Bad

Dont be excessive with pictures

Make sure the pictures have something to do withyour presentation

Spelling and Grammar

Proof your slides for:speling mistakes

the use of of repeated words

grammatical errors you might have make


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Final Notes

Have fun and be creative!

Make sure to display, or provide a link to, theadvertisement that you are critiquing.

Save your presentation as a .PPT or .PPTX file.

Dont worry about animations, this wont bepresented.

Make sure to include everything required of the

assignment.

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