7 PowerPoint Sins

But I have this small narrow space and I really wanted to

Sin #1 – Stretching Images

include a picture of a very angry person yelling into their phone to off show their frustration.

It is pretty much never ok to stretch an image.

Sin #2 – Too Much Information

Don’t do this: Do this:

Sin #3 – Irrelevant Information

Ask yourself:

“What is the minimum information I need to include?”

Sin #4 – Poorly designed imagery

Think about what visuals you want to use and why.

Hit the web for inspiration.

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Sin #5 – Animation

If you have to resort to cheesy slide transitions and slide animation, you’ve already lost.

Sin #6 – Poor Formatting

Formatting matters.

It’s your first chance to make an impression.

I’m obviously incompetent as I can’t use the same font on a page

I just don’t think the presentation matters – it’s my awesome content that everyone will be looking at.

People that obsess about this kind of thing clearly have a problem.

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Fullstops and other grammaticalical stuff like speling are totes opptional

Sin #7 – ClipartHow cool are these images? Uncool.

Banish clipart from your presentations.

Bonus tip – Adjust Page SetupMost monitors are widescreen (16:9 aspect) these days, yet PowerPoints default view is still 4:3 aspect.

Get rid of the dead space on the side of your presentations.

> Go to the ‘Design’ tab and select ‘Page Setup’ and change to On-screen Show (16:9)