PowerPoint tip 12

PowerPoint tip 12.

 Limit bullet points & text
Your presentation is for the benefit of the audience. But boring an audience with bullet
point after bullet point is of little benefit to them. Which brings us to the issue of text.
The best slides may have no text at all. This may sound insane given the dependency
of text slides today, but the best PowerPoint slides will be virtually meaningless with
out the narration (that is you). Remember, the slides are meant to support the
narration of the speaker, not make the speaker superfluous.
Many people often say something like this: “Sorry I missed your presentation. I hear
it was great. Can you just send me your PowerPoint slides?” But if they are good
slides, they will be of little use without you. Instead of a copy of your PowerPoint
slides, it is far better to prepare a written document which highlights your content
from the presentation and expands on that content. Audiences are much better
served receiving a detailed, written handout as a takeaway from the presentation,
rather than a mere copy of your PowerPoint slides. If you have a detailed handout or
publication for the audience to be passed out after your talk, you need not feel
compelled to fill your PowerPoint slides with a great deal of text.
We’ll talk more about this in the delivery section below, but as long as we are talking
about text, please remember to never, ever turn your back on the audience and read
text from the slide word for word.