The document provides guidelines for creating more effective PowerPoint presentations. It warns that boring or overly wordy PowerPoint decks can cause "Death by PowerPoint". The guidelines include speaking at a slower pace than reading, ditching bullet points in favor of visual elements, spell checking for errors, using fewer animations and data points per slide, avoiding bad color schemes, and making sure each slide focuses on only one key point. Pictures and visuals are emphasized as aids for communication and keeping the audience engaged.

1. The More Powerful PowerPoint New Trends in PowerPoint With Denise Wright

2. WARNING

3. It’s time you were warned

4. A bad PowerPoint can cause a slow and painful

5. DEATH

6. Death

7. By

8. PowerPoint

9. Can Be Prevented

10. Just follow the new and exciting guidelines!

11. Guideline Number One

12. The problem is that most people speak at

13. 150 WPM

14. Yet most people read at

15. 250 WPM

16. Guideline Number Two

17. Ditch the Bullet Points

18. Examples

20. The problem with very important slides (VIS) is that you try to get as much information on them as possible

21. Because, as we all know you can’t just say something once you have to make sure it is said or shown three times in three different ways just to get the same message across

22. That way you can’t say I didn’t tell you so

23. The sad thing is this can cause PowerPoint presenters to develop presentations with lots of different levels and lots of bullets to put across the same key message over and over and over again

24. Here I am again! I am important! Read me !!!

25. Please remember I am important, even if I am a third level bullet point!!!

26. It doesn’t matter how many different ways you try to cram the information in

27. By now – nobody will be reading it anyway

28. So it’s all pretty pointless

29. And you will end up wasting your time

30. Do you want your information to be read – give it out on paper in a handout

31. WHOOPEE

34. Many

35. And

36. Your

37. Key

38. Point

39. Will

40. Be

41. Lost

42. Within

43. The

44. Sea

45. Of

46. Excessive

47. Bullet Points

48. Do

49. You

50. Get

51. My

52. Point

53. ?

54. Avoid

55. Using

56. Too

57. Many

58. Bullet

59. Points

60. To

61. Get

62. Your

63. Message

65. Spell Checks

66. Big mistak – nothing makes you look stupider than selling errrs Many presenters forget to spell check their presentation

67. Guideline Number Four

70. More Data

71. Less Effectiveness

72. Let’s demonstrate this

73. By adding more!

76. In some desperate attempt

77. To convince you of their point

78. Guideline NumberFive

79. Avoid Bad Color Schemes Clashing backgrounds and font colors can lead to - Thumping Headache - Motion sickness - Distraction - Unexplained rash - Mental Confusion - Continual fidgeting

80. Guideline Number Six

81. Animation

82. Can be good

83. For visual learners

84. You are trying to say And not actually Can be effective Going WOW Of what? And you end up Can be effective Anyone Notice? And not actually Losing everyone??

85. And your PowerPoint becomes this

86. Blah, blah, blah HUH? Fidget WOW BORING Wow DUH Anyone Notice? BLAH Yawn

87. More Animation

88. Less Effectiveness

89. So how do you avoid mindless texts and bullets?

91. We’ve all heard the proverb

92. A picture is

94. Example of an ineffective PowerPoint slide

96. Does it make you feel like this?

98. Let’s remake it with the new guidelines……

112. Now, wasn’t that better?

114. Let’s review

116. Communication involves emotion

117. If you can’t explain it short and simple

118. Then you don’t understand it

119. This is bad communication

121. This is good communication

126. Avoid using boring clipart, if possible

128. Your Words Per Slide

129. Less text and data is

131. Make only ONE point per slide

132. Lose the bullet points!

133. Don’t use bad color schemes

135. Use pictures

136. An excellent example from Rick Altman – Conference Host Extraordinaire

137. The