The document provides tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations by avoiding pitfalls. It discusses best practices for outlines, slide structure, fonts, color, backgrounds, graphs, spelling and grammar. Specific recommendations include using an outline for the first slide, including 4-5 points per slide in bullet form, using a minimum 18-point font size, ensuring font color contrasts with the background, keeping backgrounds simple and consistent, and using graphs instead of raw data for easier comprehension.

1. Making PowerPoint Slides
Avioding the Pitfalls
Of bad Slides
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2. Tips to be Covered
 Outlines
 Slide Strurture
 Fonts
 Colour
 Background
 Graphs
 Spelling and Grammer
 Conclusions
 Questions
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3. Outline
 Make your 1st or 2nd slide an outline of your
presentation
-Ex : previous slide
Follow the order of your outline
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4. Slide structure- Good
 Use 1-2 Slides per minute of your presentation
 Write in point form not complete sentences
 Include 4-5 points per slides
 Avoid wordiness ; use keys words and phrases only
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5. Slide Structure-Bad
 This page contains too many words for a presentations
Slide. It is not written in point from making difficult
both for your audience to read and for you to present
each point. In short, your audience will spend too
much time trying to read this paragraph instead of
listening to you
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6. Slide structure- Good
Show one point at a time
Will help audience concentrate on what you are saying
Will Prevent audience form reading ahead
Will help you keep your presentation focused
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7. Slide structure-bad
 Do not use distracting animation
 Do not go overboard with the animation
 Be consistent with the animation that you use
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8. Fonts-Good
 Use at least an 18- point font
 Use different size fonts for main points and secondary
points
This font is 24- point the main point font is 28- point
and the title font is 36-point
 Use a standard font like times new roman or arial
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9. Fonts-Bad
 If you use a small font, your audience won”t be read what you have
written
CAPITALIZE ONLY WHEN
NECESSARY IT IS DIFFCULT TO
READ
 Do ‘t use a complicated font
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10. Colour-God
 Use a colour of font that contrasts sharply with the
background
 Use colour to reinforce the logic of your structure
 Use colour to emphasize a point
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11. Colour-Bad
 Using a font colour that does not contrest with
The background colour is hard to read
 Using colour for decaration is distracting and
annoying
 Using a different color for each point is unnecessery
 Trying to be crertiaecan also be bad
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12. Background - Good
 Use backgrounds such as this one that are attractive
but simple
 Use backgrounds which are light
 Use the same background consistently throughout
your presentation
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13. Background – Bad
 Avoid backgrounds that are distracting or difficult to
read from
 Always be consistent with the background that you use
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14. Graphs - Good
 Use graphs rather than just charts and words
 Data in graphs is easier to comprehend & retain than is
raw data
 Trends are easier to visualize in graph form
 Always title your graphs
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15. Graphs - Bad
January February March April
Blue Balls 20.4 27.4 90 20.4
Red Balls 30.6 38.6 34.6 31.6
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