Examples of What NOT

to do in PowerPoint

AVOID ANIMATED TEXT

Do not animate text

Fly in’s

Pulsing

Spinning text

It is just not professional! Don’t do it.

THEME DESIGN

This is not a good choice for theme designFun, but not very professional.

This is hard to read. Wouldn’t you agree?

This is easy to read

This is hard to read

• enough said

TOO MANY FONTS

Using BOLD for an entire sentence is

not a good idea.

Too many fonts on this slide

Do not exceed 2 font choices but choose wisely.Make sure the font you choose is legible

Too many fonts, this one is pretty but hard

to read.

HELLO! Are you awake now?

• This text does not have enough contrast to be seen well.

• Plus this loud yellow background is enough to make you gag.

Avoid Clip Art! Use images instead

Be sure to cite your images or use copyright free, or creative commons images. These images were found right in the Microsoft photo gallery.

Check Grammar and Spelling!

• Nothing makes you look more uncredibale than having errers in yer persentation.• It can be downwrite embarassing!• Yes the spelling errors in this slide were

intentional for the sake of feeling uncomfortable and hope that this won’t happen to you!

I think you will agree that this slide has way too much text and it is hard to read.It is hard to read because of the amount of text, and poor contrast with the background.

Too much information! Too many bullets!

Don’t put your audience to sleep

Image: Vision Jar

Make a great presentation

instead!