This document provides instructions for creating an effective PowerPoint presentation. It discusses planning the presentation by determining what information to include. Guidelines are given for the layout, font size, headlines, slide transitions, color and use of visuals. Key principles of slide design include using bullet points with 6-8 words per point and no more than 6 points per slide. Important slides to include are the title slide with presentation details and an outline slide listing the main topics. References for further information on presentation design are also provided.

1. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARATION OF
POWER POINT PRESENTATION
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RAMU BADIRENI
M.PHARMACY
SVU COLLEGE OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
TIRUPATHI

2. OUTLINE
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Planning the presentation
Guide lines for making presentation
 Layout
 Font size
 Head lines
 Slide transition
 color
 visuals
Principles of slide design

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Planning the presentation
Guide lines for making presentation
Principles of slide design
 Layout
 Font size
 Head lines
 Slide transition
 color
 visuals
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4. Planning The Presentation
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 Think what you want to present
 Procure all the required information and data
You want to present
 Analyze the possibility to make it in all the matter
into a presentation slide

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Planning the presentation
Guide lines for making presentation
Principles of slide design
 Layout
 Font size
 Head lines
 Slide transition
 color
 visuals
OUTLINE

6. Principles Of Slide Design
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 Use short expressions and convey key information with in that
 Don’t put all the text
 Write in bullet point form
 Be clear and understandable
 Use 6-8 words per each point
 And do not Include more than 6 points per a slide

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Important slides in a power point presentation
 Title slide
 Title of your presentation
 Name and qualification
 Location and date of presentation

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 Out line slide
 Introduction
 Methods
 Results
 conclusion
The Road map, includes major part of the presentation
Important slides in a power point presentation

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Planning the presentation
Guide lines for making presentation
Principles of slide design
 Layout
 Font size
 Head lines
 Slide transition
 color
 visuals
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10. Guidelines For Making Presentation
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 Layout
- Is to make your presentation easier to understand
Placing heading at the same position
Use bullets and fonts in a consistent way
Place pictures if needed

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Fonts-font size
 Use fonts like
Arial
 Select readable text size
36 for titles24 for body text
Verdana sans Power point
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Tahoma
 Don’t use italics
Some fonts has sharp ends which are not visible to the audients far
from the screen

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Slide transitions:
Headlines:
 Each slide has a short heading
 shows to which part of the presentation it belongs
 Use smooth slide transitions

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 Color & contrast:
 Use bright color font on light background
 Use a color of font that contrasts sharply with the
background.
 Don’t use glaring color Power point
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 Visuals :
 Use visuals for quick and easy understand
Graphs Charts Images
One picture can speak more than 1000 words

15. References
1. http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/powerpointadvice.htm, by Colin Purrington (2005)
2. Malmfors, B., Garnsworthy, P. and Grossman, M. 2004. Writing and Presenting Scientific Papers.
Nottingham University Press, Nottingham, UK
3. Edward R. Tufte “Envisioning Information,” “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information,” “The Cognitive
Style of PowerPoint”
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