A good PowerPoint presentation should highlight the content rather than flashy effects or transitions. It is most effective to use color, pictures, and animations thoughtfully to enhance the message and maintain readability, without overusing animations that could distract from the content. A strong concluding statement is also important to leave the audience with a meaningful final message rather than having the presentation abruptly end.

1. A effective PowerPoint presentation is not just projecting slides of written material onto a screen and reading the content back to an audience who is viewing the slides and has most likely read them faster than you can recite them aloud. Most people will not be engaged by those types of presentations, finding them redundant if not downright…

2. boring.

3. A good PowerPoint presentation

4. will highlight

5. will highlight CONTENT

6. rather than gimmicky transitions

7. or effects.

8. Color can be used to effectively convey the tone of your presentation,

9. but should be used thoughtfully, to maintain…

10. …style and…

11. …readability.

12. PowerPoint presentations can contain pictures,

13. PowerPoint presentations can contain pictures,

14. animated objects,

15. sound effects,

16. and movie clips.

17. You can make text fly in…

18. or even drop in,

19. but over-use of animatedtext can detract from your content

20. and confuse the viewer.

21. There are many templates available…

22. for adding visual interest to your presentation,

23. but like special effects,

24. they can be overwhelming

25. and over-used.

26. Finally, it is important to have a strong concluding statement rather than having the presentation just

27. stop.