Interactive Powerpoint_How to Master effective communication
Creating A Presentation
1.
2. DETERMINE THE PURPOSE OF THE
PRESENTATION AND THE LOCATION AND
AUDIENCE.
DETERMINE THE TYPE OF OUTPUT.
DETERMINE A LOOK FOR YOUR
PRESENTATION.
DETERMINE THE MESSAGE YOU WANT TO
COMMUNICATE.
DETERMINE WHAT OTHER MATERIALS WILL BE
USEFUL IN ADDITION TO THE PRESENTATION.
3. Minimize the number of slides.
Choose a font style that your
audience can read from a distance.
Choose a font size that your audience
can read from a distance.
Keep your text simple by using bullet
points or short sentences.
Use art to help convey your message.
4. Make labels for charts and graphs
understandable.
Make slide backgrounds subtle
and keep them consistent.
Use high contrast between
background color and text color.
Check the spelling and grammar.
5. To help you design your presentation,
PowerPoint provides design templates so
you don’t have to spend time creating
the right presentation look.
DESIGN TEMPLATE has borders, colors,
text attributes, and other elements
arranged in a specific format that is
applied to all the slides in your
presentation.
6. Subject matter-specific content, such
as Certificate of Achievement,
Soccer, and the soccer ball image
Background formatting, such as
pictures, texture, gradient or solid fill
color, and transparency. This example
shows the light blue solid fill
background
7. Color, fonts, effects (3-D, lines, fills,
shadows, etc.), and theme design
elements.
Text in placeholders (placeholders: Boxes
with dotted or hatch-marked borders
that are part of most slide layouts. These
boxes hold title and body text or objects
such as charts, tables, and pictures.) that
prompt people to enter specific
information.