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Friday, April 18, 2008

Tips in designing Power Point presentation

Doing presentation using PowerPoint is become important part for students or businessmen, here are 6 (six) tips in making an effective presentation using PowerPoint, and hope that your audience will keep their attention until it finished.

1. Use simple sentences
PowerPoint is not an application for text editing like Ms. Word. That’s why, use only simple and effective sentences. Also, don’t put too much information in one slide because it will confuse your audience.

2. Picture means thousands words
Use catchy illustration or picture in PowerPoint to explain your presentation, so your audiens will give you full attention and they’ll be easier to understand you. But, don’t forget to consider the picture’s resolution, the picture can be rough if you stretch them and looks bad.


3. Master your presentation’s topic
Sometimes presentation using PowerPoint was designed complex enough into many slides. Don’t be stumble in explaining your topic even in details. Prepare yourself so you can give good impressions and acceptable for your audience.

4. Its good to share stories
Don’t read your presentation in monotone way, your audience can read by themselves. Tell them stories! Illustrate your PowerPoint content, it can be your life experience or something else, so your audience can understand the meaning very well.

5. Contents are important
Make sure your PowerPoint content is useful for your audience. Don’t put too much special effect like animation, moving pictures or marquees (moving text), besides its boring, it could mean that your presentation isn’t serious enough.

6. Appreciate your audience
Design your PowerPoint slides better, so your audience can see the text or images clearly. Make sure you’re using proper color and not harm your audience. For refference you may visit www.colorschemer.com. And don’t forget that your audience aren’t only sit in the front rows, there are audience who sits in the back.

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