Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
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PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Simplicity
• Do not add too much content.
– Keep bullets short
• Visual aids should:
– Reinforce
– Support
– Summarize what you say
Designing Presentation Aids
Continuity
Continuity
• Maintain continuity in:
– Colors
– Fonts
– upper and lowercase letters
– Styling
• Boldface
• Underlining
• Italics
Designing Presentation Aids
Typeface
• Typeface:
– a specific style of lettering
• Arial
• Times Roman
• Courier New
• Tahoma
• Monotype Corsiva
Designing Presentation Aids
Font Size
• Fonts:
– sets of sizes (called the point size)
• 24 point
• 20 point
• 18 point
• 16 point
• 10 point
Color
• Use bold, bright colors to emphasize
important points.
• Use softer, lighter colors.
• Avoid dark backgrounds.
A How-To Guide for
Using Microsoft
PowerPoint as a
Presentation Aid
How-To Guide to PowerPoint
Texts
overlap
Font is
and have
small
strange
and hard
formatting
to read
View
buttons
As you can
see from
this slide, Click on the icon on
text boxes the Drawing toolbar.
can be put
With the cursor, draw the
anywhere. approximate size you need
for your text.
Organizing Text
• You can expand the box to include more text or
make it smaller to make room for other design
elements on the slide.
• The pre-
designed
selections from
the Slide Layout
screen offer the
most logical and
often-used
layouts.
Organizing Text
• Use a readable font and font size for
each different aspect of the page (a
good size range is between 20-60
points).
• Be consistent from slide to slide with
fonts and font sizes.
• Choose colors that will ensure that
your text is readable and your slides do
not appear distracting.
Organizing Text
• Don’t u s e too many different
fonts.
• DON’T USE ALL CAPS.
• Avoid fonts that are
distracting:
–Braggadocio
OzHandicraft BT
–
–Shelley Volante BT
Organizing Text
• Don’t include your entire speech on the
slides. Instead highlight important points.
• To determine what information is best to
include in your presentation, you should:
• Review your speech outline.
• Identify points that can be illustrated,
such as key terms and their definitions,
statistics, or charts and graphs.
Organizing Clip Art and Pictures
Clip art is
too
large.