Helpful Tips for Creating a Horrible Powerpoint | Money

Your first step is to make sure that your presentation is created by somebody with absolutely no expertise in graphic design. 

Perhaps you’re thinking, “Why should design matter?  It’s not the way it looks but rather the material being presented that’s important.”  And if that’s what you’re thinking, congratulations!  Not only have you already mastered this step, but you’ve done so in a way that runs contrary to every natural human instinct.  You probably live in a house completely devoid of color and decoration, wear the same ill-fitting clothes every day, and would have been perfectly happy if you had never laid eyes on your spouse prior to the day of your marriage. 

But I digress.  After you’ve created an unappealing suite of fonts and backgrounds, you next need to figure out how to display all your information. 

Step Two, but as much Info you possible can on one slide 

The answer is simple:  in paragraph-sized chunks.  It is an unspoken rule among professional speakers – and by ‘unspoken’ I mean ‘widely and freely publicized’ – that every click of your wireless pointer should add no more than six to ten words of text to a given Powerpoint slide, and that a full slide should contain no more than six lines of text.  But I see no reason to listen to people who deliver animated and engaging presentations for a living.  So display 50 words at a time!  If your slide has six major points, don’t display each point as you plan to discuss it – display all six points at once!  The best of you will actually reduce the point size of your text in order to cram more information into a given slide, which will make it impossible for the people sitting in the back to actually see whatever it is you’re displaying.  In addition, most of us automatically read whatever we see, and most of us can read a given paragraph much faster than the average person can say it aloud.  As I’m sure you know, the act of reading a paragraph at one speed while somebody else says it aloud at a slightly different speed is just plain annoying, and you’d be foolish to overlook such a golden opportunity.

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