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Wild Slides: 20 tips to improve your PowerPoint presentations

Aug 11, 2014

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Improve your PowerPoint presentations and tame those wild slides with 20 tips and tricks.
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SLIDES & 20 tips for taming them

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1 Content comes before slides.

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2 Think like a minimalist.

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3 Be consistent with

the look of your slides.

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4 Stay clear of PowerPoint templates.

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5 Stick to one

idea per slide.

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6 Tell a story with

your slides.

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7 Use a colour

scheme.

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8 Choose striking, high-resolution

images.

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9 Source images

from stock libraries or

DIY.

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S Serif ans Serif

(with feet) (without feet)

10 Choose a sans serif

font.

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11 Use a minimum of 30 point font

size.

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12 Avoid too much text on slides.

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13 Don’t treat slides as a teleprompt.

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14 Slides should

never double as a handout.

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15 Use PowerPoint

animations sparingly.

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16 Use gridlines and

guides for alignment.

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17 Don’t reinvent the wheel, be

inspired by great designs.

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18 Work hard on your slides.

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19 Lots of tweaking

will give you a polished end

product.

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Photograph  courtesy  of  Fairfax  Media  –  Craig  Abraham  

20 And remember…it’s OK to break

the rules.

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