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Effective PowerPointEffective
PowerPoint
10 top tips for designing and
presenting great slide
shows
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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
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2. Keep the background simple• Keeps a clear, clean design
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2. Keep the background simple
Keeps a clear, clean design
Avoids distractions
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2. Keep the background simple
• Keeps a clear, clean design
• Avoids distractions
• Allows good contrast
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2. Keep the background simple
• Keeps a clear, clean design• Avoids distractions• Allows good contrast• Prevents confusion
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2. Keep the background simple• Keeps a clear, clean design• Avoids distractions• Allows good contrast• Prevents confusion• Avoid PowerPoint’s own templates
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3. Keep the text clear
• 24 pt minimum • 36-44 pt for heading• Contrast colours
18 point
20 point
24 point
28 point
36 point
40 point
44 point
Good Bad
Bad Good
Good Bad
Bad Good
Bad Good
Good Bad
Bad Good
Good Bad
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3. Keep the text clear
• 24 point minimum • 40-44 for heading• Contrast colours• Don’t use black on white
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3. Keep the text clear
• 24 point minimum • 40-44 for heading• Contrast colours• Don’t use black on white
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3. Keep the text clear
• 24 point minimum • 40-44 for heading• Contrast colours• Don’t use black on white
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3. Keep the text clear
• 24 point minimum • 40-44 for heading• Contrast colours• Don’t use black on white
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• Photographs are fantastic• Cartoons are fun• Diagrams are
useful• No picture? Why a slide?
“My PowerPoint presentation went so well, I had it made into a tattoo!”
4. Always have a good picture
Just
SPEAK it!
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5. Use a full sentence as your title
• Show where you are going!
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6. Animate quickly and simply• Avoid transitions
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6. The next slide?
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6. Animate quickly and simply• Avoid transitions• For text use:
– Appear– Wipe, from left (very fast)– Fade (very fast)
Appear Fade
• For graphics use:
Dissolve in
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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!
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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!
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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
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Great for learning languages…
…or adding a bit of realism!
9. Be very careful with sound• No whooshes• No chimes• No lasers • No typewriters
French
Hello
Goodbye
Thank you
Français
Bonjour
Au revoir
Merci
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10. Give out great handouts
• People will listen!• Don’t use Handout
option• Send to Word?
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