Designing an Effective PowerPoint

1. Designing an Effective PowerPoint Part 3: Practical Guides

2. Interior Content Interior Content - Everything that constitutes your Powerpoint Presentation (slides, slide content, slide content animations, slide transitions).

3. Creating Slides • Insert > New Slide • Insert > (Choose content, e.g. Picture, Text Box…) 3) Manipulate Size and Position of Content

4. Transitions Transition - An effect that determines how slides progressively show up on-screen, e.g. Blinds, Cut, Wipe.

5. Creating Transitions (Normal View) • View slide you wish to edit • Slide Show > Slide Transition… • Change slideshow transition • Click Apply

6. Transition Advice • Transitions must support, not distract • Make transitions fit content • No transition is just fine • Multiple transition types annoy

7. Animation Animation - An effect that determines how elements of a slide appear on screen, e.g. Dissolve, Fly In, Flash Once.

8. Creating Animation • Select slide element • Slide Show > Pre-Set Animations > (select an animation) OR 2) Slide Show > Custom Animations > (select order and animation for each slide element)

9. Animation Advice • Transitions Must Support, Not Distract • Make Transitions Fit Content • No Transition is Just Fine • Multiple Transition Types Annoy

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12. Good Example 1 Choose Rubbish, Inc. • The Fastest • The Strongest • The Least Accident Prone

13. Good Example 2 Rubbish, Inc Testimonials • Robert Johnson: “I use Rubbish, Inc. for all my rubbish requirements- it’s their professional staph and their famously trashy service that really makes the difference.” • John Robertson: “Without Rubbish, Inc. life is just a sequence of days extending one after another; a giant garbge heap, signifying nothing.”

14. Exterior Content Exterior Content - Everything in your presentation other than your Powerpoint. The best presentations include practiced hand gestures, polished verbal delivery, and some form of crowd interaction.

15. Exterior Content Help • Use your PowerPoint as an aid to your presentation, not as your presentation • Be sure that your Exterior Content and your Interior Content are different • Know your presentation space and execute your gestures and volume accordingly

16. Basic Look (Corporate) • Strong, Clean Lines • No Unnecessary Elements • No Unusual Typefaces

17. Alternate Method • No Template • No more than six words on a slide • Image heavy • Little or no animations • Rely even more on Exterior Content

18. drunk Driving K I L L S

19. KNOW WHEN TO STOP

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