Tips to improve in the art of making PowerPoints

Although everyone knows that everything turns PowerPoint "always compile" dominate good and credible PowerPoint presentations is a must in the professional world. And as in this art, often martial, we ready a lot during the race, and its domain is vital, I wanted to leave you in this post some tips on making presentations (taken from my not know how many thousands of hours doing Power Points, or seeing other people). - No two same presentations. Each presentation has its purpose and audience, and these find the style of presentation. 

Depending on the purpose, type of public talk and the PowerPoint will be one style or another. Not the same an invited talk at a conference where we will talk an hour, a 16-hour course. I normally use Power Points courses with much more detail and text in short talks, which just put text and use many images. A presentation must always adapt. - Never put in a PowerPoint or something that is not going to read it.

A premise: in a public presentation slides ever read. So why fill a slide of extensive texts and the audience you ever going to read? Why put these texts to a font that is not? Or those diagrams with lots of text and arrows are not? These texts useless distracting, avoid setting the main idea conveyed the slide, not used for anything and give bad reputation.

 There is only one exception to this rule, and that is when you to give a course of many hours, in which people have a copy of the material and interests you or even leave some notes to read something during the course. - Use images, but their quality care. A picture says a thousand words. But little cared images give a very bad reputation. Examples, images that fill the entire slide with a very low resolution.

Or put screenshots of the browser with a font so small you can barely see, with many letters, banners or hit a screenshot and display the Windows desktop ... are things that are not very good. - Beware the relationships of the type "presentation time = a fixed number of slides." Often such calculations to "a slide for every 5 minutes", and hence, according to the time of filing, fixing the number of PowerPoint slides. Beware that this has its dangers. For example, to set the number of slides that happening two different ideas on the same slide.

Think instead of 5 min telling a slide containing two ideas is more efficient 5 min counting two slides, each with a unique idea. Instead of fixing the number of slides and rigidly distribute your presentation ideas in that issue fixed first fixed ideas that you can count on the time you have and distribute them for an undetermined number of slides. - Read and study the specialized blogs thousands effective presentations there on the Web. Like everything in life, the more hours, more practical and study, you will best good powerpoint presentation.

To improve, studies how the present ideas that there are many efficient presentations for the Web. Studies, such as, presentations Slide share awarded every year. Read a lot about making presentations, do not forget that this post shows a summary of advice on the art of PowerPoint, but obviously there are many more that you have present and you can find specialized blogs (e.g this), councils Type A: only one idea per slide, text greatest, minimum font size, have a "history", how to start, how to finish, etc..