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POWERPOINT TIPS: Making you & your boss look good

Learn practical do's and don'ts to make your presentations impressive and avoid annoying mistakes. Tips include font choices, slide design, animations, and more.

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POWERPOINT TIPS: Making you & your boss look good

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  1. POWERPOINT TIPS: Making you & your boss look good Mike Piczak November 2004

  2. PURPOSE OF THIS PIECE • To introduce you to a selection of practical do’s and don’ts that will help to make both you and your boss look good • To keep you away from mistakes that annoy and distract from your presentation purpose

  3. TIPS 1 • Spellcheck • Watch for fonts/colours that clash with background to the point cannot be read • Dreaded red X (the big one across the whole page) • Save your work to multiple storage devices • Do not send html/zip • Less is more • White space balance

  4. TIPS 2 • 1 font size • All fonts same throughout • 1 background only • Logos into 1 position • No distortion of logos • No distortion of images • 25-35 words per slide • Not too many animations

  5. TIPS 3 • Forget sound • Allow or demand of yourself one cool thing to “wow” the audience • Distort an image for an interesting stripe or separator (see above) • Send your presentation to yourself by e-mail • Learn ‘pack and go’ • Save images from the internet (“save picture as”) and then insert from file

  6. TIPS 4 • Watch out for slow animations • Watch out for too many animations • Use the internet to find unique backgrounds • Use the internet to find royalty free images (www.microsoftclipart.com) • Use bullet points • Do not allow images or tables to block out logos

  7. TIPS 5 • Use nudge to move pictures into position • Make sure all paragraphs align • plan on about 1 slide for each minute of presentation (depending on your purpose) • have an audience handout version just in case equipment fails (and it does) or software won’t open files (and it won’t) • learn to toggle Fn F7 or Fn F5 or Fn F3 through various • Get your own projection unit (DVP) and know how to set up same

  8. TIPS 6 • If presentation room has only one light switch and thus, entire room must be made completely dark to view show, use an overhead projector to ‘bounce’ the light back into the room by shining overhead into a corner (try it…it works…) • Use slides as prompts for expansion and explanation rather than just reading • Use hidden slides for ‘extra’ explanation material

  9. TIPS 7 • Close the way you opened consistent with: tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them and tell them what you just told them • .5 to .67 slides per presentation minute • Enjoy yourself because you have done your homework and you are good

  10. A RULE OF THUMB ON # OF SLIDES

  11. POWERPOINT TIPS: Making you and your boss look good Mike Piczak November 2004 The end

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