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 PowerPointNew Trends in PowerPointWith 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

19. Common PowerPoint Mistake1. Some people like to put everything they are going to say on their slide2. Although this means you do not have to remember what you are going to have to say on your slides, this does make your slides boring and text heavy and may cause peoples’ eyes to glaze over3. People will begin to wonder why they are even listening to you as they have already used up all their brain power reading ahead and drawing their own conclusions4. All of this before you even reach the bottom of your…This is a Very Important SlideIn case you had not understood the fact that this is a very important slide from the heading I am going to make sure that you read the information again in many different ways

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

32. PHEW – is that it now?Not exactly exciting is it?

33. Avoid Bullet PointitessToo

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

64. AcrossGuideline Number Three

65. Spell Checks

66. Big mistak – nothing makes you look stupider than selling errrsMany 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 SchemesClashing 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 sayAnd not actuallyCan be effectiveGoing WOWOf what?And you end upCan be effectiveAnyoneNotice?And not actuallyLosing everyone??

85. And your PowerPoint becomes this

86. Blah, blah, blahHUH?Fidget WOWBORINGWowDUHAnyoneNotice?BLAHYawn

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?