2. Presentation Software Hints and Tips to Improve your Presentation

3. Plan - Plan - Plan What is your topic? Who is your audience? What do they know? What do you want them to know?

4. What is your message? ? ? ? ? ?

5. Have Consistent Visuals Fonts, sizes Margins, columns Bullets, headings Limit of five points per slide

6. Use Text Effects Regular text Bold, Italics Don’t use underline Omit punctuation marks DON’T USE UPPER CASE LETTERS IN SENTENCES SINCE THEY ARE HARD TO READ

7. Fonts Some fancy fonts are great for effects but can be difficult to read if there is too much text using that font

8. Consider Size Large Small

9. Importance If it’s bigger, it’s probably important If it’s small, it’s probably not important

10. Content There is sometimes a tendency to put too much information on one slide. When this happens, the reader may have difficulty interpreting the main point of the slide. While the slide designer has a goal of presenting the information, this goal may not be achieved if the reader is not motivated to read all the text. When creating your pages, for your slideshow, keep the amount of text limited to what the reader can quickly absorb Or.........

11. Content In other words Don’t put too much text on a slide

12. Use Colour Yellow Blue

13. Colour Choose colour to match the theme Use complementary colours Red

14. Presenting on other CPUs Test before presenting - don’t assume Transporting files – does it have to fit on a floppy? Does sound need the.wav or.mid files on the system?

15. Don’t use too many features Do the sounds enhance this slide?