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Leaders' Edge
Topic: Productivity and Professional Practice
PowerPoint Design Tip: How Much Information should Slides Include?
Several of our principals decided to model technology use by creating PowerPoint slide shows to use during meetings. Now they're standing in front of an audience and reading the slides aloud! Is this what using PowerPoint is about?
A PowerPoint presentation should not be used as a teleprompter, but this often happens with new users. Here are a few tips that should help:
- Think of slides as visual aids that help the audience stay focused on the points being made, and choose text and graphics accordingly. Neither should detract from the speaker.
- Limit the number of bulleted items on each slide to three, four at most, and use a large, readable font. Include just those important key words or phrases.
- Speakers who want more comprehensive notes may use the Notes feature to write additional text that is not displayed when viewing the slide show. Printing a Notes version of the file provides the speaker a copy of each slide and all the accompanying notes.
Submitted by:
Susan Brooks-Young
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Leaders' Edge Coordinator: Susan Brooks-Young
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