January 3, 2005
Do’s And Don’ts When Preparing A PowerPoint Presentation
To create a truly effective presentation you should follow some general Do's and Don'ts.
Learned through actual practice, here are my recommended ones.
DO:
- Organize your thoughts on paper before working with PowerPoint
- Use the Outline View for preparing the text part of your presentation
- Spell check your content
- Use only appropriate graphs, charts and images that closely follow or complement the concept expressed in each slide
- Divide topics in one or more slides and keep text to a minimum on each slide
- Keep a certain consistency in titles, backgrounds, colours and slide transitions
- Run the show for final adjustments, stand back from the screen at least a meter, perhaps ask a colleague to assist and to give useful ideas
- Use opening and closing slides so that the audience won’t see PowerPoint before and after the presentation
DON’T:
- Don’t work on the visual part of the presentation before having inserted all the necessary text
- Don’t use too many pictures and graphics which might take the focus away from more important items such as keywords and relevant data
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