Top 10 Presentation Tips by Jennifer McIntyre: Enhance Your PowerPoint and Word Skills
Discover essential tips from Jennifer McIntyre on creating impactful presentations with PowerPoint and effective document formatting in Microsoft Word. Learn why choosing the right background color, font style, and size is crucial for audience engagement. Understand the 6x6 rule for bullet points and avoid distracting animations for clearer communication. Additionally, master layout formatting, including text alignment and the use of columns in Word, to improve readability and professionalism in your documents. Elevate your skills and impress your audience effortlessly.
Top 10 Presentation Tips by Jennifer McIntyre: Enhance Your PowerPoint and Word Skills
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Top 10 By: Jennifer McIntyre
PowerPoint • Choosing a background • Color Backgrounds: BAD IDEA! • Distracts the viewers • Black and White: GREAT IDEA! • Easier to read
PowerPoint #2 • Choosing the right Font Style • Arial: Good Choice! • Times New Roman: Not so much! • This style is meant for papers
Power Point #3 • Choosing a Font SIZE • Stand 6ft from your computer screen • If you can read it: =) • If not =(
PowerPoint #4 • The 6x6 rule • No more than 6 characters per line • No more than 6 bullets per slide
PowerPoint #5 • Animation • Don’t use it! • Distracts the viewers attention
Microsoft Word • Hanging Indent • No more fuss with the tab key • Simply right click. Select Paragraph. Look for special under indentation. Click on the drop down box and select hanging indent • Comes in handy when writing citations http://www.computergaga.com/word/2007/foundation/formatting/images/paragraph_box.JPG
Microsoft Word #2 • Formatting a Page • Want all your text aligned to the left? • Under the home tab. Look for the paragraph box and select “align text left” or press Ctrl+L • What about aligning your text to the right? • Same thing. Under the home tab look for paragraph and select “align text to the right” or press Ctrl+R • Maybe you want your text centered to the page • before instead this time select “Center” or Crtl+E • Or maybe your looking for a clean finish. • Selecting “Justify” aligns your text to both the right and left side of the page • Follow the same steps
Microsoft Word #3 • Adding Columns to a document • Great for announcements • Under the page layout tab. Go to page setup and select the columns button. If you hit the drop down arrow it allows you to choose starting from one column to as many as you want. http://www.projectwoman.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Word_columns_line_between_columns.jpg
Excel • Excellent for budgets • To show negative numbers in your budget. On the home tab. Select the dialog box launcher next to the word number. When dealing with money select currency. • You can choose from • -$123 • $123 • ($123) • ($123)
