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    Creating an Effective PowerPoint Presentation

    Hints for a successful presentation:

    o Plan carefully o Do your research o Know your audience o Time your presentationo Practice your presentationo Speak comfortably and clearly

    Effective PowerPoint Slides o

    Use design templates o Standardize position, colors and styleso Include only necessary informationo imit the information to essentials o !ontent should be self"e#ident o Use colors that contrasto $e consistent with effects, transitions and animationo Too many slides can lose your audience

    Text guidelines o %enerally no more than & words a line o %enerally no more than & lines a slide o '#oid long sentences o arger font indicates more important informationo (ont size generally ranges from )* to +* point o $e sure te t contrasts with background o (ancy fonts can be hard to read o -ords in all capital letters are hard to read o '#oid abbre#iations and acronyms o imit punctuation marks

    Clip Art and Graphics o Should balance the slideo Should enhance and complement the te t, not o#erwhelmo .o more than two graphics per slide

    / PowerPoint presentations can also sa#ed in 0T1 format and inserted in a -eb page2

    Virginia Montecino July 1999Source: http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/powerpoint.html

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    Dos and Don'ts in PowerPoint PresentationsWritten by Ray Mason

    Friday, 20 November 2009

    The Internet provides a lot of tutorials onhow to prepare a PowerPoint presentation (PPT).Here, we shall give some easy-to-follow steps for a PPT: Dos

    Begin the presentation with a ontent slide whi h des ri!es what the presentationontains. "ti # to the order mentioned.

    The ontent of the slide must !e in !ullet form, not omplete senten es The optimum num!er of points in a slide is $-% "how one !ullet point at a time rather than the entire slide. This helps the audien e to

    on entrate on whatever is !eing said rather than reading forward. Be onsistent with the font si&e. 'se at least a font si&e of %- . The olor of the font must sharply ontrast with the !a #ground. Hen e ma#ing the

    ontent easily reada!le without an effort from the audien e 'se onsistent !a #grounds *lways use effe tive on lusions as the last part of any presentation is most

    remem!ered *lways end with a than# you slide than#ing the audien e for their time and patien e People are essentially visual and remem!er visual images !etter than te+t. "ti # to the #ey on epts. *void des ription of spe ifi s and unne essary details. hoose good PowerPoint templates don t use dull and !oring template

    Don'ts

    . *void wordiness: use #ey words and phrases only. /on t use e+ essive animations as it distra ts the audien e0. /on t use different olor fonts unless ne essary1. /on t get distra ted !y audien e noises or movements$. /on t turn your !a # to the audien e.%. /on t read the slides aloud. 2our audien e an read them far faster than you an tal#.3. /on t attempt to memori&e your te+t. /on t lutter your slides with unne essary logos and graphi s.4. *void the use of showy transitions su h as te+t fly-ins et . These features undou!tedly

    are impressive for !eginners, !ut are distra ting and get old 5ui #ly6. Try avoiding dar# !a #grounds in a poorly-lit room or light !a #grounds in a well-lit

    room.

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