4. Too Many Slides
How many??
Only as many as required to visually support what you’re saying orally
Should I read or should I listen?
putting words on a screen creates conflict for your audience
using limited text with simple visuals and graphics
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5. MAJOR ERROR IN PRESENTATION SLIDE
The choice of font and font size plays an
important role to make a presentation adorable.
The presenter must focus on these while preparing slides. The first point and most important
about using fonts in presentations is to make sure that there is sharp contrast between the color
of the fonts on the slide and the color of the slide background. Little contrast = Little readability.
Choose a font that is suitable for the tone of your presentation. For a group of dentists, select
simple fonts. If your presentation is aimed at small children, then this is a time when you can use
a “funky” font. However, if this font is not installed on the presenting computer, make sure
to embed the true type fonts into your presentation. This will increase the file size of your
presentation, but at least your fonts will appear as you intended.
Not only the font, poor choice of colors may also lead to catastrophic presentation. But poor
color choices can be distracting in ways you might not even be aware of. And any time your
audience’s attention is focused where it shouldn’t be, they’re missing your main message.
The audience may get confuse due to use of too much data and too many line of text on the screen.
6. Major Errors
• Poor selection of font and font size.
• Poor selection of colors.
• Too much data
• Too many lines of text
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7. Font Style and Textual Content
• Readable font styles
• Use common font
throughout
• Make text short
• Include key word and
phrases
• Highlight key point
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8. Font Size and Use of Capital Letters
• Larger is better
Title Size: 40 point
• Bullet Point : 32 point
Content Text : 24 point
• DON’T USE ALL CAPITAL
LETTER
Makes hard to read
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Managerial Communication
12. 6 x 6 Rule
• 6 lines of text
• 6 words per line
13. White Space
Don’t fill every inch of the frame.
Cluttered slides make it impossible for the
audience to know where to look first.
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14. Enough Visuals, Not Too Many Words
simple graphics and visuals - reinforce the most important
points.
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Managerial Communication
15. The Slides Are For The Audience
To help the audience remember your information—
not to help you remember your own information.
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Managerial Communication
PowerPoint is a complete presentation graphics package. It gives you everything you need to produce a professional-looking presentation. These simple but important presentations have revolutionized the way meetings are being conducted and how ideas are conveyed. Making your presentation more interesting through the use of multimedia can help to improve the audience's focus. PowerPoint allows you to use images, audio and video to have a greater visual impact. These visual and audio cues may also help a presenter be more improvisational and interactive with the audience.