PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

So PowerPoint is the greatest thing since sliced bread, for some people at least. It's a great tool for organizing your ideas into a presentation and sharing it with others. But what makes a successful PowerPoint presentation? Everyone likes pretty colors and funny pictures, but you don't want that in a PowerPoint presentation. You want your presentation to be simple yet informative enough to grab your viewers attention. You also want to avoid wordy slides because then your viewers will only be reading what is on the slide and not listening to a word you are saying. Another good thing to remember is to lay off the flashy slide transitions and how text is introduced to the slide. People love graphics. Period. Throw in some charts and graphs showing change over time and progress and you're golden, only if the chart is easy to understand. Along with the idea of not using flashy things, avoid flashy fonts such as cursive fonts that are too hard to read, people don't like that. I think that a solid combination including all of these elements should make for an intriguing PowerPoint presentation.