The document provides 20 tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations with consistency, simplicity, and clarity. Key recommendations include using a single template, standard colors, descriptive titles, tables of contents, short bullet points, varied media like images and videos to engage audiences, and leaving room for discussion on the last slide. The overall goals are to maintain professionalism, structure information flow, and keep audiences focused on the main ideas.

2. 1.) Use a single template for a
single presentation. Do not use
multiple template design in a
single slide. Consistency is the
key to a good PowerPoint
presentation.

3. 2. Use standard and simple
template with a decent colored
background. Too many bright or
glossy slides do not give a
professional look. Choose colors
that would appeals to the eyes.

4. 3. Title page is very important
as it creates the first impression
about the whole presentation.
Give a crisp title that would
describe the entire
presentation.

5. 4. Try to give a table of contents
at the starting of the slide so
that the user knows what all is
there for them.

6. 5. Give short, direct and well
structured sentences. The
sentence should normally not
exceed more than 2 lines of the
slide.

7. 6. Do not crowd your
presentation with too much text
or too much of images

8. 7.Give your ideas in the form of
bullets or points. You may
consider giving numbering in
case you are explaining step by
step procedure.

9. 8.When using bullets, try using
only one bullet type. Presence
of the same bullet types will
maintain the flow all throughout
the slide.

10. 9.Your presentation should not
only be in the form texts.
Convey your ideas with the help
of
pictures, flowcharts, audio, vide
o, etc.

11. 10. The Heading should have a
larger font than the Text.

12. 11. Choose only one main
heading per page.

13. 12. Avoid using more than two
font styles. However, you may
use variations such as
bold, italic, underline.

14. 13. Choose images that can
convey your ideas without using
text. Flooding your slides with
unnecessary images would be of
no good.

15. 14. For images, using
the Picture Tools tab is
beneficial. Use the various
selections from the Picture
Shape, Picture
Border and Picture
Effect menus to improvise
further on the images.

16. 15. Using Audio and Video is
good to keep up the audience’s
interest.

17. 16. Flowcharts can be really
helpful when you try to replace
them with texts that have
subtopics/ points in a flow.

18. 17. Keep the simplest transition
for your slides. Your motive is to
keep the audience focused on
what is all written in the slides.

19. 18. Do not try to give all the
explanation in the presentation.
PPT is for the purpose of
presenting the most important
key points. Explanation should
be done while communicating
with the audience.

20. 19. Always keep the last slide as
a scope for discussions
questions.

21. 20. Think from the audience’s
perspective.