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How To Create An Effective PowerPoint

This document provides guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint presentations. It recommends planning carefully, knowing your audience, and practicing your presentation. For slides, it suggests using templates, limiting information, and ensuring readability of text by using font size, color contrast, and bullet points. Animation and graphics should enhance the text without being excessive. Overall, the presentation should follow consistent design and the slides should not contain all the information as the speaker should expand on them.

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How To Create An Effective PowerPoint

This document provides guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint presentations. It recommends planning carefully, knowing your audience, and practicing your presentation. For slides, it suggests using templates, limiting information, and ensuring readability of text by using font size, color contrast, and bullet points. Animation and graphics should enhance the text without being excessive. Overall, the presentation should follow consistent design and the slides should not contain all the information as the speaker should expand on them.

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Creating an Effective Powerpoint

Presentation

K. Coker
What is Powerpoint
 PPT is an abbreviation for Powerpoint
 A software tool by Microsoft
 Presents information in slide-show format
 Offers text, graphics, sound effects, & video
Hints for a Successful
Presentation
 Plan carefully
 Do your research
 Know your audience
 Time your presentation
 Practice your presentation
 Speak comfortably and clearly
Effective Powerpoint Slides
 Use design templates
 Standardize position, colors and styles
 Limit the information to essentials
 Content should be self-evident
 Use colors that contrast
 Be consistent: effects, transitions &
animation
 Excessive slides can lose your audience
Text guidelines
 Stay under 6 words per line
 Stay under 6 lines per slide
 Avoid long sentences
Larger font indicates important
information
 Font size ranges from 18 to 48
 Be sure text contrasts with background
 Fancy fonts are hard to read
 ALL CAPS ARE HARD TO READ
 Avoid abbreviations and acronyms
 Limit punctuation marks!!!!!
Bulleting
 Bulleting gives structure/organization to
slides
 Limit to 6 bullets per slide
 Make bullets visible; 18-24 font
 Limit each bullet to 6 words
 Contrast the text with the background
Animation
 Don’t get carried away
 Restrict animation to certain slides
 Use animation for special emphasis
 Animation can demonstrate how something
works
 Excessive animation looks childish
 These apply to sound effects also
Clip Art and Graphics
 Should balance the
slide
 Enhance, compliment
the text
 Use when text needs
visual explanation
 Limit to two graphics
per slide
Specifics & Tutorials
 PPT offers interesting variations
 Use pre-made templates, create your own
 The following gives links to online tutorials
Tutorial Links
www.bitbetter.com/powertips.htm www.bcschools.net/staff/PowerPointHelp.ht
m

www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/ www.actden.com/pp/

www.powerpointanswers.com/ www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpoin
ttutorials.htm

www.computertips.com/Microsoftoffice/Ms www.electricteacher.com/tutorial3.htm
PowerPoint/aheader.htm

www.anandnatrajan.com/FAQs/powerpoint www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/MS-
.html PowerPoint/Effects-and-Presentation/1
Remember This
 Slide shows aren’t your presentation
 Use PPT as an outline
 Don’t read verbatim from your PPT

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