Do’s And Don’ts

Of PowerPoint By Maya Voorhies

Word Transitions

Are easy to do badly…

Too much is simply too much!

• BULLET POINTS

SHOULD emphasize WHAT YOU’RE SAYING

• NOT BE DISTRACTING

Word amount is very important.If you have too many words on a power point people feel overwhelmed! Who wants to read a entire essay on a slide, the purpose of a PowerPoint is to be engage the audience in addition to a verbal presentation.

Did you know the history of powerPoint…Originally designed for the Macintosh computer, the initial release was called "Presenter", developed by Dennis Austi and Thomas Rudkin of Forethought, Inc.[2] In 1987, it was renamed to "PowerPoint" due to problems with trademarks, the idea for the name coming from Robert Gaskins.[3] In August of the same year, Forethought was bought by Microsoft for $14 million USD ($29.1 million in present-day terms[4]), and became Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, which continued to develop the software further. PowerPoint was officially launched on May 22, 1990, the same day that Microsoft released Windows 3.0.PowerPoint introduced many new changes with the release of PowerPoint 97. Prior to PowerPoint 97, presentations were linear, always proceeding from one slide to the next. PowerPoint 97 incorporated the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language, underlying all macro generation in Office 97, which allowed users to invoke pre-defined transitions and effects in a non-linear movie-like style without having to learn programming.PowerPoint 2000 (and the rest of the Office 2000 suite) introduced a clipboard that could hold multiple objects at once. Another change was that the Office Assistant was changed to be less intrusive. [5]

As of 2012, various versions of PowerPoint claim ~95% of the presentation software market share, with installations on at least 1 billion computers. Among presenters world-wide, this program is used at an estimated frequency of 350 times per second. [6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint

No one cares!!!

Hooray for interesting backgrounds!

BUT NOT WHEN THEY ARE DISTRACTING.

You can always use a text box!

Fonts can add interest…

Or be annoyingHard to read

Take away from your main point

Stick to the classics.

Graphics are a great tool… When used correctly.

AVOID LONG LISTS1. Because

they are annoying.

2. Because no one wants to read them

3. Because if people are reading them they are not listening to you

4. Because I said so.

Finally, use Bold, Underline, ALL CAPS, and Italics sparingly.

IT doesn’t make since to use them all the TIME, it’s just

distracting.

That’s IT! Thanks for looking!!!OO