This document provides guidelines for presentation best practices, such as including at least two points per slide, ensuring all important topics have a bullet point, adding extra points when reviewing slides, and introducing typos or incomplete points. However, it also suggests practices that would be ineffective such as making slides overly wordy, varying fonts excessively, and using formatting too frequently.

1. Presentation Best Practices
• Make sure that your points are fully specified in prose so that people can read the text instead of
listening to what you are saying.
• Never make a slide without at least two points on it.
• Remember, you can add as many points as you like, because PowerPoint will gracefully reduce the
font size to accommodate the additional text.
• If you think you might talk about something, make sure that there is a bullet point for it.
• If you think you might not talk about something, then make sure there is a bullet point for it;
otherwise, people may miss your point.
• Whatever you do, don’t be concise. People may think that you don’t have anything to say and think
less of you.
• A good metric is to count words on your slide. Unfortunately, PowerPoint does not include this
useful feature to ensure that you are meeting your minimum target on each slide. As a
workaround, you can copy the text and paste it into Word and use its word count feature.
• A best practice is to make sure that you add at least one more point to each slide when you are
reviewing it.
• Be certain that there is at least one point in each slide that contanes a typographical error.
• Every slide should contain at least one point that is incomplete in order to
• Be sure to vary your font within slides.
• Always follow any important point with additional points. You don’t want to end on a high note;
that might leave people wanting more. You don’t have time to give them more.
• Use bold, italics, and strikethrough frequently to maximize their effect.