The document provides guidelines for creating impactful PowerPoint presentations, emphasizing the importance of minimizing transitions and using animations and sounds judiciously to avoid information overload. It advises keeping presentations organized, compressing images, embedding fonts, cropping images into custom shapes, and customizing slide sizes for optimal viewing. Finally, it recommends concluding with a summary slide that highlights key points and benefits.

1. DOs
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2. tran
sition
1. Dramatic Impact
Through Transitions
Transitions between slides
can help your presentation
make more of an impact.
A good case practice is to
keep transitions to a
minimum and use the
same transition or a
variationofthetransition.

3. sound
2. Use Animation &
Sound Carefully
Like graphics, animations
can be used to enhance
your ideas. Abuse them,
and you have information
overload again. Same goes
for sound as well.

4. orga
nized
3. Well-Organized
Presentations
Storeeachpresentation
anditsassociatedfilesin
itsproperfolder,together
with all the visual
elementsyou’veused.
FOLDER 1
FOLDER 2
FOLDER 3

5. imagesTo reduce the size of
the presentation,make
sure to compress
all your images -
150dpi should
be enough.
4. Compress Images
To Reduce Size

6. 5. Embed Your
Typefaces
Don't break the formatting
on another computer by
embedding the fonts
1- Options
2- Save As
3- Embed Fonts
4- All Characters

7. images
6. Crop Images Into
Custom Shapes
You can mask an image
by merging it with the
custom shape of your
choice (eg: a circle) and
from Merge Shapes,
select Intersect.

8. size
For example, if you
want to show a quick
presentation to
someone on your
smartphone, you can
create slides the size
of your actual screen.
7. Create Custom
Slide Sizes

9. vectors
8. Convert Vectors
To Shapes
You can add SVG files
and convert them to
powerpoint shapes to
better resize or recolor
while keeping them sharp.

10. summary
9. End With a
Summary Slide
It’s a good case practice
to go through your key
points and list the final
benefits in a summary
slide, at the end of
your presentation.