Rules for Professional PowerPoint Presentations

1. Mr. Musil's Rules for Professional PowerPoint Presentations or How to get an A on my PowerPoint instead of a C Course 1017 Information Technology Literacy

2. Types of PowerPoint Presentations • “Talking-points” of a presentation • Gives the main points of your speech • You control what audience sees (mouse click) • Most common type of PowerPoint • Stand-alone—Slide show that plays itself • Example: graduation slide show at a party • Example: children’s story

3. Required Font Types and Sizes Required for most school presentations: • The ONLY Font Families to Use • Times New Roman • Arial or Arial Black • Font Size • 44 pt or larger for the slide title (top) • 32 pt or larger for the bullet points

4. Bullet Points • At least 3 bullet points per slide • No more than 6 bullet points per slide • No more than 8 words per bullet • Use phrases, not whole sentences • Use custom animation (one bullet appearing at a time)

5. Custom Animation • What is Custom Animation? • your bullet points appear when you decide • your images appear only when you decide • Appearance usually decided by mouse click • Class requirements for most slide shows • All bullet points must have custom animation • All custom animation restricted to Appear

6. Custom Animation :Appear • Your bullet points must Appear like this: • Your first bullet point • Your second bullet point • Not like this… (It will lose you points!) • No bouncing • No flying in • No center revolving • No swiveling • No typewriting

7. Custom Animation Steps • Open the Animations tab • Click the Custom Animation button • Highlight bullet points • Click the Add Effect • Select Entrance, • Click Appear The first time you try, click More Effects… first

8. Background • Click Design tab • Vary your background for each slide • Clicking the little Background button • Select type of fill and color • Oruse an appropriate Design Theme

9. Font Color and Background • Use good contrast between slide and background color This doesn’t work well—hard on eyes This works better This doesn’t work either This is better THIS DOESN’T WORK This works!

10. Graphics (images) • Keep your audience interested • Use at least one image per slide • To steal correctly from the web: • Right-click on the image • Click Save Picture As… • Saves to your My Pictures folder • In PowerPoint, click Insert / Picture

11. Conclusion These rules will give the best results to keep the attention of your audience.