Does anyone know how to make a good PowerPoint presentation?

[Anonymous]

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Any templates to share , ideas , animation tips?

[AviatorTom]

Know your audience, remembering that girls general like to see words while boys like to see pictures. If it's a combined audience, include both pictures and words in the presentation.

Here are some rules I follow in my presentations. I often prepare presentations and conduct technical training sessions.

Keep each slide describing only one point, put that in the slide's title, with bullet points below it.

Each slide should have no less than 50% whitespace. If the slide is too busy and contains too much text and pictures, your audience won't understand it

The first slide in a presentation should provide a simple roadmap if what is to follow.

Don't do animations. They are difficult to do well, and usually distract people.

Try a few of the sample templates included with PowerPoint, and find one you like.

[RebelinSteel]

Understand your subject that you want to show to the audience. make sure you understand the audience of the slides, it needs to match their level of knowledge. Keep it simple, stick to intro and cover specific background, cover the key points, ending needs to be next steps or what the important point of the PowerPoint was. No animation unless you really have to. Brief, keep it simple, stick to the important bits, not all words, use images if possible. Rehearse timings, make notes you can read from when showing the slides. Decide if you want questions as you go through them or all at the end. Have a PDF version without notes, ready to send out if required,