HOW TO MAKE YOUR POWERPOINT PRESENTATION INTERESTING AND CREATIVE?

Be it office, college, or school; one should know how to use and prepare power-point presentation slides. We, living in this modern era, should be well- versed with the technology to keep up with the pace. If the slides are not appropriately prepared or creatively, the audience loses interest soon, and the purpose of presenting goes in vain. So, presentation slides should be designed such that the students, colleagues, or the audience doesn’t lose interest soon. Here are few points that one should keep in his/her mind while preparing the PowerPoint presentation.

1. INCLUDE IMAGES

As we all know, watching pictorial things or images has long-lasting effects on our mind than the textual work, so insert as many photos as you can to make the audience understand things better. Try explaining things with a diagram or give references for maps in the texts to get a positive response from the audience.

 

1. USE FLOWCHARTS AND SMART ARTS

If you are discussing a process or list of events, it can be presented in the form of flow charts rather than a paragraph form; it will help to make things more clear and easy to understand. Smart Art is also a feature available in MS office -Powerpoint, which allows you to convert long -lengthy paragraphs into flow charts or flow diagrams.

 

1. LIGHT –COLORED BACKGROUNDS

Dark and pictorial background of slides create a lot of confusion and fuss, so it is better to use light-colored backgrounds. Dark-colored texts over light-colored background appear more pleasing to eyes than that compared to the dark scenes. Also, it easy for people sitting far away from the projector to focus on the slides.

 

1. USE VIDEOS

If you keep speaking or reading the paragraphs you prepared in the slides, you will get bored after few minutes, so it is always better to include videos in your PowerPoint presentation relevant to the topic you are covering. Just do this in one of your meetings, you will see the change in the attitudes and attentiveness of the audience as soon as you play the video.

 

1. RULE OF SEVEN

Always use this rule. Personally, this one is my favorite and most important. According to this rule, use paragraphs of not more than seven lines in a single slide, and each line use not more than seven words. If you keep adding things in a single drop trying to make the presentation short, neither the purpose will be fulfilled, nor it will be worth it. So using Rule of Seven in your every production is a must.

 

1. STANDARD FONT STYLE AND SIZE

During presenting formal presentations like in schools, colleges or offices always use standard font style i..e. ‘Times New Roman and standard Font size of ‘24’ with the spacing of 1.5 or 2 in between the lines. It gives your presentation a formal and sober look. Though it’s not a hard and fast rule to use these font styles and font sizes, you can also use any other according to your convenience.

 

1. RECENT TRENDS OR ADVANCES

This is an additional point you can use to improve your presentation and make it more informative as people are much more interested in knowing what is going on in today's world to keep up with the trends and follow it if required. Who doesn’t like advancements? Everybody does, so it is always better to include recent advances relevant to the topic being presented.

 

1. AN IMAGE WITH QUOTES

Always try to start and end your presentation with a Quoted image. At the beginning of the session, you can include a good morning slide or any motivational quote slide as a gesture to greet the audience. It helps to create a friendly environment. You can end your presentation with a Thank you slide or include a message or warning relevant to your topic.

 

1. INCLUDE CONCLUDING SLIDE

Whatever the topic you are presenting, you should always end on a concluding note, so that even if someone misses or loses some points in between, the presentation can relate to it at the end. The concluding slide has it’s own importance as it gives us the gist about the whole topic.

 

1. HIGHLIGHTS AND REFERENCES

Highlight the essential texts or words in a line or paragraph. Highlight it using the bold feature in PowerPoint, or you can change the font style to Italian or underline the important points. Also, try giving references or cross-references like from where you have extracted the information. It increases the weightage and provides confirmation or evidence to the texts or data you are providing.