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Avoid these powerpoint mistakes
Powerpoint presentation is a means to show to your audience what you want talk. The audience will see your pictures and point over the screen as you talk. What people don't usually notice is how easy it is to make mistake inside their presentation. It is easy to overlook these mistakes because it seems natural to you. In the end, these mistakes will just bore your audience and your presentation have failed.
First basic mistake is putting in everything inside one slide. After that, he reads his speech like reading from a text book.
{Doing that is just the same as turning your presentation into a video with words|That's the same as just writing the entire speech down on a blackboard and not saying a word.
Use as little words as you can or even just place one picture in one slide. The slides are suppose to just assist you in your speech, not take over it.
Consistency is also another problem people usually face. You use Times New Roman in one slide, the next slide contains Calibri and the next is Verdana. Who would love looking at that mess?
Only one font will be picked just to use it throughout your slides. The size of the font should be large enough to the audience sitting far away can read your slides.
Keep to the same theme throughout your presentation. Don't change your theme halfway as it can make them confuse.
Transition animation was made with good intentions. You can hide different points in a slide and reveal them slowly.
But people tend to over use the transition animation. You can see it in all the pictures, slides and points inside that presentation. Eventually the audience will get bored with it. Use the transition animation sparingly. If need to add in animation, make sure it is simple and quick so it will be over in a moment.
Another feature that people should use often is the spell checker. This simple feature will save you a lot of embarrassment moment by keeping your slides grammatically correct.
Using spell checker is not 100% fool proof as you still need to run through your presentation again. This makes sure your slides are in order and you know the flow of the presentation and won't get stuck when you are presenting it.
