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Tips For Creating and Using Effective Powerpoint Presentations

This document provides tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations, including planning carefully, knowing your audience, practicing your presentation, and timing it appropriately. It recommends limiting each slide to 7 lines with 7 words per line, using font sizes between 18-48 point, and sparingly using effects, transitions and animations. Graphics like charts and diagrams should enhance the content, and each slide should have no more than two graphics. The document includes examples of good and bad slides.

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Tips For Creating and Using Effective Powerpoint Presentations

This document provides tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations, including planning carefully, knowing your audience, practicing your presentation, and timing it appropriately. It recommends limiting each slide to 7 lines with 7 words per line, using font sizes between 18-48 point, and sparingly using effects, transitions and animations. Graphics like charts and diagrams should enhance the content, and each slide should have no more than two graphics. The document includes examples of good and bad slides.

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Tips for Creating and Using Effective

PowerPoint Presentations

Hints for a successful presentation

Plan carefully
Do your research
Know your audience
Practice your presentation
Speak at a comfortable pace and project to your audience
Avoid speaking quickly to include more content
Show enthusiasm for and interest in your topic
Time your presentation appropriately (PowerPoints Rehearsal feature lets you time
your presentation)

Effective PowerPoint slides

First slide should include your presentation title, your name, organization logo and
date
Use design template to standardize position, colours and styles
Use colours that work well together (Such as yellow or white on a dark blue
background. Avoid use of red)
Limit the information to essentials
Use effects, transitions and animation very sparingly
Limit the number of slides (no more than 12 for a 10-minute presentation)
Do not apologize for any slide. If the content is hard to read, redo it

Text guidelines

Generally no more than 7 words a line


Generally no more than 7 lines a slide
Avoid long sentences
Provide only key points on your slides
Larger font indicates more important information
Font size generally ranges from 18 to 48 point
Be sure text contrasts with background
Fancy fonts can be hard to read
Words in all capital letters are hard to read
Avoid abbreviations and acronyms
Limit punctuation marks
Spell check and proofread your work

Canadian Cochrane Centre 10 May 2005

Clip art, graphic and other features

Use clip art, pictures, charts, tables and diagrams to enhance presentation content
Use sound and video when appropriate to content
Use a chart or graph to present statistics
No more than two graphics per slide

Example of a good slide

Example of a bad slide

Acknowledgements

Tips for Creating Effective and Interesting PowerPoint Presentations, Eccles Health Sciences
Library, University of Utah website, viewed April 28, 2005,
http://medlib.med.utah.edu/ed/eduservices/handouts/PowerPoint_Web/ppp-tips.pdf

Creating an Effective PowerPoint Presentation, Virginia Montecino, George Mason University


website, viewed April 28, 2005, http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/powerpoint.html

Canadian Cochrane Centre 10 May 2005

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