Transcript Presentation Software

Presentation Software
Hints and Tips to
Improve your Presentation
Plan - Plan - Plan
What is your topic?
Who is your audience?
What do they know?
What do you want them to know?
What is your message?
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Have Consistent Visuals
Fonts, sizes
Margins, columns
Bullets, headings
Limit of five points per slide
Use Text Effects
Regular text
Bold, Italics
Don’t use underline
Omit punctuation marks
DON’T USE UPPER CASE LETTERS
IN SENTENCES SINCE THEY ARE
HARD TO READ
Fonts
Some fancy fonts are great for
effects but can be difficult to read if
there is too much text using that
font
Consider Size
Large
Small
Importance
If it’s bigger, it’s
probably
important
If it’s small, it’s probably not important
Content
There is sometimes a tendency to put too
much information on one slide. When this
happens, the reader may have difficulty
interpreting the main point of the slide.
While the slide designer has a goal of
presenting the information, this goal may
not be achieved if the reader is not
motivated to read all the text. When
creating your pages, for your slideshow,
keep the amount of text limited to what
the reader can quickly absorb Or.........
Content
In other words
Don’t put too much
text on a slide
Use Colour
Yellow
Blue
Colour
Choose colour to match the theme
Use complementary colours
Red
Blue
Yellow
Does Red
stand out?
Is this easy to
read?
Presenting on other CPUs
Test before presenting - don’t
assume
Transporting files – does it have to
fit on a floppy?
Does sound need the .wav or .mid files
on the system?
Don’t use too many features
Do the sounds enhance this slide?
Go
Ahead
Have
Fun