1. POWERPOINT TIPS Fire and Materials 2017 Copyright Interscience Communications Limited © 2016
In this presentation you will find information on the following:
Master Slide Template
Text and Fonts
Animated Text
Images
Presentation size and length
Moving Images (movies / videos)
Deadline Date for your PPT – 31st Jan 2017

2. SLIDE MASTER TEMPLATE
Please use this master slide for your presentation at the conference. This helps uniformity.
If you want to customize your slides by adding your logo then please place this on the bottom left hand side.
Place your logo here

3. TEXT AND FONTS Do not overcrowd the slide with text
Use simple fonts (ie Arial)
Use large point size (this is 32 pt)
Less than 24 pt is to small to read
Always embed fonts especially if using equations, symbols or non-English letters

4. Use this sparingly! ANIMATED TEXT
Be consistent and only use one or two effects throughout the show eg. dissolve or fly in from left etc
Use animated text to build and highlight information eg. Dim bullet points
This slide uses too much animation and illustrates how distracting and gimmicky these effects are.

5. IMAGES
Once you have inserted an image make sure its file size is “optimised” by following these simple steps: 1. Click on any image 2. Go to “Format” on the toolbar 3. Click on “compress image” and then “options” 4. Select “target output” as “screen”
This will automatically compress all images in your presentation and make the file size much smaller, more portable and quicker to load and run without losing quality or definition.

6. FILL THE SLIDE WITH THE IMAGE

7. In page set up make sure that the slides are set for “on screen show”
PRESENTATION LENGTH
Usually slides is more than enough! (On average this is one slide per minute or less)

8. MOVING IMAGE FILES
Special consideration is needed if using moving image files such as:
movies (*.mpg)
videos (*.avi)
animated gifs (*.gif)
  Please let us know the slide number where there are any moving images so that we can check the links work. 

9. Moving Image Files (cont/)
Naming Inserted Files
Inserted files should be named after the slide they appear in. Eg. A movie in slide 7 would be slide7.mpg
If multiple files are inserted in a slide, also use an alphabetical subset Eg. slide7a.mpg, slide7b.mpg
This makes it easier for the Organisers to re-insert the file should it “drop out”.
Only Supply Relevant Files
Only the main presentation and it’s associated files should be on the disk.

10. DEADLINE DATE: 31st January 2017
We need to check that your PowerPoint runs without error on the conference laptops so we need them ahead of the conference to run through them. If there are problems with your presentation we will contact you. Your presentation will then be loaded into the Session Holding Slide which is where it will be run from (see example below from another conference )
Click on your Name and your PowerPoint will run. After your last slide you will return to the session holding screen ready for the next speaker

11. SAVING FILES
When saving your file please put your unique paper number at the beginning.
Eg: MA001 Babrauskas
Save your file as a .pptx file where possible.

12. Interscience Communications Tel: +44 (0)20 8692 5050
If you need more guidance or have any questions please speak to:
Sue Wolf
Interscience Communications
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