1. The Top 10 Tips to Avoid “Death by PowerPoint”
                                  

2. PowerPoint: The most widely used presentation software

3. Benefits… PowerPoint is easy to use and update
Visuals increase retention
You can make a greater impact!

4. Done wrong….

5. The Top Ten Tips for Avoiding “Death by PowerPoint”

6. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 10.
Limit the number of words
About 15 to 20 words
Outline key ideas

7. A PowerPoint presentation is not a reading report
A PowerPoint presentation is not a reading report! Here is a rather boring and long block of text that is sure to make even the most curious of people extremely sleep. In fact, I will be quite impressed if you read through the entire thing. This example is really awful (or is it really good at depicting something really awful?). Whew, this is harder than I thought to write this much gibberish.
A PowerPoint program should never compete with the speaker
Even if you break it up with bullet points it still distracts.

8. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 9.
Use a bold, simple font
Arial Bold or Veranda are recommended

9. The goal is maximum legibility
Examples of hard to read text
The goal is maximum legibility

10. Traffic signs are designed for maximum legibility
(an Arial font or close to it)

11. 72 Point Arial Bold 48 Point Arial Bold Preferred Size

12. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 8.
Use transitions wisely
Dissolves are the least jarring

13. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 8.
How not to do it:
The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint
Use transitions wisely
Dissolves are the least jarring

14. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 7.
Avoid stock templates

19. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 7.
Avoid stock templates
Go to Google and search on “free powerpoint templates”

20. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 6.
Choose a design where words contrast from the background.

21. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 6.
Choose a design where words contrast from the background.

22. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 5.
Let the audience know where you are going.
What we will cover
Major transitions

23. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 5.
Let the audience know where you are going.
What we will cover
Major transitions
Point 1, Point 2…
What we covered

24. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 4.
Use pictures and graphs
A picture is worth a thousand words

25. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 3.
Use a wireless remote
Don’t be tethered to your computer.

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27. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 2.
Always have a backup
Burn a CD copy
Carry it separately from your computer
Load to your Web site

28. The top 10 tips for avoiding death by PowerPoint 1.
Always remember….
YOU are the show not the screen.

29. words
10. Limit the number of _________.
font
9. Use a bold, simple _________.
transitions
8. Use _________________wisely.
templates
7. Avoid stock ________________.
contrast
6. Words must _______________ from the background.

30. going graphs pictures remote wireless backup show screen
5. Let the audience know where you are _____________.
going
graphs
pictures
4. Use ________ & ___________.
remote
wireless
3. Use a ________ _________.
backup
2. Always have a ____________.
show
1. You are the _________, not the ___________!
screen