Top 10 PowerPoint Techniques  – Less is More is Golden when using PowerPoint

by Patricia Luzi

Keep slides uniform: same color scheme, design templates, background and casing (sentence case preferred)
Use no more than 3 font styles Serif font styles for Title San Serif font style for body / bullet text, objects and diagrams
Plan 3 to 5 slides / concept  One main concept / slide
Use no more than 6 bullet / slides; 2 lines / bullet; use 5 or less data series /chart
Avoid juxtaposing red and green (especially in chart series) hard to read
Use no more than 2 types of animation 1 for the opening and closing 1 for the body of the presentation
Incorporate build techniques when animating bullet lists
Use parallelism on bulleted text
Emphasize main points using graphics, clip art, pictures, diagrams
Print handouts using 3 slides / page

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