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PowerPoint Presentations Some Things to Consider

PowerPoint Presentations Some Things to Consider

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PowerPoint PresentationsPowerPoint Presentations

Some Things to ConsiderSome Things to Consider

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PowerPoint provides a tremendous variety of special effects.

Of course, all that power is easily abused.

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Areas to Be Covered

Really irritating effects

Ways to Make Text Hard to Read

Now That You’ve Prepared the Presentation, What Else Can You Do to Make it Unbearable?

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Really Irritating Effects

Sound EffectsCool Noises as Each Slide Changes(avoid by selecting “no sound” )

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Really Irritating EffectsMay be best to avoid sound with

Noises as Animated Text Comes In

They are particularly bad when the text is relatively long.

Typewriter

and Laser Text.

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Really Irritating EffectsVisual Effects

“Drop In” is quite annoying with relatively long text segments.

Crawling under “CustomAnimation” can be excruciating... Especially when sounds are attached:

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Custom Animation

Custom animation is also goodBut using too much can be annoyingChoosing animations that are slow

can be badSound effects often aren’t needed

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Incidentally...One can easily get away from the usual backgrounds supplied with PowerPoint.

You can make your own design templates by selecting “Slide Master” under “View.”

Save the results as a Presentation Template in the Presentation Designs folder in Templates

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One wouldn’t want to leave out video that is too small and poorly conceived...

And ends up leaving the audience in the dark!

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Ways to Make Text Hard to Read

• Poor Choice of Font• Mismatch with Background• Failure to Plan for Lighting• Too Small

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Poor Choice of Font

PowerPoint offers the opportunity to use

There are also a lot of fonts to choose from such

as Old English Text, Aero, Stencil,

Parchment, and Mesquite. Many are hard to read.

Aren’t you glad that text can come in word by word with Custom Animation?

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Other Ways to Make TextDifficult to Read

The “Font...” choice under “Format”provides several waysto make text harder toread.

Italics and and embossingembossingcan cause some trouble.

One can play with colors here as well, which brings us to...

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Mismatch with Background

The choice of colors can make a big difference.

Backgrounds which have both light and dark areas can be particularly troublesome.

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Backgrounds and COLORS

Make sure the background and color combination are good. You must be able to read the writing. Often times busy backgrounds aren’t good. Changing the background every other slide isn’t good either.

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Failure to Plan for Lighting

Check where youare going to present to see if light on dark is better than dark on light.

Check where youare going to present to see if light on dark is better than dark on light.

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Size of Text

Generally recommended that the primary text go no smaller than 22.Making things any smaller can create problems for some people.

22 point font

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TextMake sure you text isn’t jumbled with too much information. It is good to just put the main

topics and then talk about them that way you are reading off your presentation.Also Don’t make the text too small that you can’t see it.If you have a lot of info, make more than one slide for it that way all the information doesn’t

get lost on the one slide like this slide is turning out.Make sure Text is written in a color that appears well against the background. If it blends in

too much people won’t be able to read it.

The above text is way too small to read. Make sure this doesn’t happen

Also, chack for misspellings that is alwazs bad!!!

Don’t let the text run off of the slide. This is very tacky.

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Now That You’ve Prepared the Presentation, What Else Can You

Do to Make it Unbearable?

Even if you have failed to use any really annoying things from PowerPoint, you can still make the presentation an unpleasant experience.

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PowerPoint has given us something even worse than doing a presentation by reading a paper.

Reading the slides to people can be annoying. People will be unhappy if you have to read the slides (because the text is too small or the projector too dim).People will be really annoyed if the slides are wonderfully legible and you read to them anyway.

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Plain Jane isn’t very interesting

Don’t just leave everything black and white

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Clip Art

Clip art or pictures are good, but using something that has nothing to do with your topic isn’t good

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Last notes

Don’t use blank slides like the previous one.

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