How Do You Make Effective Powerpoint Presentations?
If you work in an office you have endured many terrible PowerPoint presentations. I say this without fear of contradiction. Worse yet, you may have inflicted such presentations on your hapless coworkers. However, PowerPoint presentations are not inherently dreadful. There are some steps you can take to create better presentations. Limit the amount of information on each slide. If you create bullet points, try to stick to two or three per slide. If you slide is overwhelmed with words, your audience will lose interest immediately. Use as many pictures, cartoons and illustrations as possible. The old cliché is true: a picture is worth a thousand words. A well-selected cartoon is worth several thousand words. Use short, vivid, concrete words. Avoid long, abstract words. If you use simple words that evoke mental pictures, so much the better. Create slides that present information as charts and graphs. Graphic information is easier to understand than verbal explanations. Make you charts colo
