The document discusses common mistakes made in PowerPoint presentations. It identifies putting all text from the spoken presentation on slides, failing to spell check, using distracting color schemes, adding moving or blinking fonts, and choosing unimaginative fonts as issues that should be avoided. The key advice is to keep slides concise and free of spelling errors while choosing fonts and colors that enhance readability rather than distract.

10. Most Common PowerPoint Mistakes
1)
People tend to put every word
they are going to say on the
PowerPoint slide. Although this
eliminates the need to
memorize your talk, ultimately
this makes your slides
crowded, wordy and boring.
You will lose your audience’s
attention before you reach...

11. Most Common PowerPoint Mistakes
… the bottom of your second
slide.

12. Most Common PowerPoint Mistakes
2)
Many people do not run spell
cheek before their presentation.
BIG MISTAK!!!
Nothing makes
the speaker look stupidor that
spelling errers.

13. Bad Color Schemes
● Clashing color schemes and font
colors can lead to
● Distraction
● Confusion
● Headaches
● Nausea
● Vomiting

14. Most Common PowerPoint Mistakes
NO MOVING FONTS:NO MOVING FONTS:
● Keep your text stationary
● Blinking isn't much better

15. FONT Analysis
● Courier New
organized & structured
●
Comic Sans
You think you are funny
● Times New Roman
Lazy, unimaginative
●
W n n si gdi g (wingdings)
(you are a nerd and have no life)