Plan your presentation content before designing slides. Structure your ideas and storyboard key concepts before beginning slide design. When designing slides, maintain a consistent style and use subtle transitions between slides. Use light text colors on dark backgrounds for better visibility. Limit text to 7 lines with 7 words maximum per line, and use large, legible fonts that are readable in large rooms. Each slide should illustrate a single idea or concept expressed in one sentence. Support the main idea with graphics like charts, diagrams or photos to enhance meaning without overcomplicating the slide.

1. Certain Guidelines for Slide Preparation
Planning
Thinking about building slides should be the tail end of your presentation. It should be your last step of
your presentation. Structure your presentation initially.
What is the purpose of your presentation? What do you want your audience to gain?
Plan your content first. Write down what you want to accomplish and what your audience care about.
Always start your presentation on a paper. Draw your ideas, link your concepts and create a story board.
Slides
Style
Create a consistent look and feel throughout. Create a style of presentation and change it subtly for each
topic as a cue of transition.
Use subtle and consistent transition effects from slide to slide.
Background
Don’t decorate the slide, instead communicate through your slide. Use light colors on a dark background
for effectiveness. In a large hall or lit room use white background and black font.
Use color well. Using right colors will evoke the required emotion for consuming information.
Text
Keep the text simple. Avoid slides with a lot of text, it disturbs the attention of audience.
Don’t crowd the slide. Use no more than 7 lines and 7 words per line.
Use Large and legible letters. Have a lot of white space in slide and text should be present only on top 2/3rd
of slide.
Use readable font. Use bigger font for clear visibility in large rooms. Space between lines should be at least
the height of an upper-case letter.
Content
Each slide should illustrate a single Idea. Idea should be expressed as a single sentence.
Don’t let your message and your ability to tell a story get derailed by slides that are unnecessarily
complicated busy and full of chart junk.
Graphics
Support the idea with Graphic evidence.
Using tables, charts, diagram etc. to support words increases learning. Use graphs rather than tables.
Use pie charts for comparing values, Vertical and Horizontal Bar graphs for comparing Amounts and Line
charts for trends.
The graph should be clearly visible and make sure the headings of graph are clearly visible and make sure
to highlight the outcome of the graph.
Media
Use Photos that enhance meaning to the slide. Use effects on photos to highlight the text but visible enough
to add the meaning to text.
Using videos appropriately may increase the understanding of audience.

2. Miscellaneous
Slides should be used only when they serve purpose, no need to use text or figures unnecessarily.
Use a blank slide, when audience want to look at you. Use a white slide to explain something on the spot.
Use pen to highlight on the go or grab attention to particular space.
Use Handouts to give detailed explanation to audience, don’t distribute slides for the material, slides are only
meant as a visual aid not for relearning material.
Original Work is always appreciated, use original than copied or used material.
Presentation is a fun process, not pain staking. Add some humor and fun elements to the presentation to
remove the tension in audience.