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- Limit text to about 36 words per slide
- Things to take into consideration if more words are used
- Words may fall off the bottom of the slide
- The font (text) size maybe so small that people will not be able to read it
- Audience will be so busy trying to read the slide that they will not be listening to you
- Work on the text of your presentation in Outline view so the text flows correctly and does not wander or repeat
- Power Point is an accessory to your presentation
- It should not be the entire presentation in and of itself
- Don't just read the slides.
- Choose a font that is easy to read
- Sans-serif fonts (like Arial or Helvetica) are easier to read than serif fonst (like Times New Roman) when projected onto a screen or put on the World Wide Web
- Be sure that there is enough contrast between the color of the slide and the color of the text
- Avoid clutter in your slides
- Test the finished presentation on yourself
- View your presentation in Slide Show View it with full sound and standing back from the screen bit
- This will give you some idea of what you audience will experiecnce when you give the presenation.
- Don't put too much emphasis
- Don't put too many different types of emphasis like underlining or bold on everything
- Don't use lots of different fonts in a single presentation
- Don't use pictures/images/graphics just for the sake of having pretty pictures in slides
- Too many graphics in a single slide will confuse people
- The slide will look cluttered
- People will not be paying attention to you as the speaker
- They will be too busy looking at your pictures
- Don't use sounds that are startling or annoying as transitions for your slides
- The audience will not appreciate hearing the sound of breaking glass or a pistor shot every time you change slides.
- Don't use colors that make your eyes shake when you look at them
- Don't forget to use spellcheck on your presentation
- Remember, anything that looks iffy to you on your computer screen will be much worse for your audience when it is projected onto another screen.
