Thinking of making a Power Point to brighten your presentation before a large audience? Think twice. I have sat through many presentations solely backed by Power Point and found it disgusting. I think it could be the case with most people in the audience.
Last week, our company itself had an investors program in Kochi and speaker-after-speaker tried to use Power Point but with little effect. Some of the tables and points were hardly legible to an audience sitting in the middle to back of the auditorium. Even those sitting in the front rows had to struggle to see the fine print.
I think the problem crops up due to lack of knowledge on how to use Power Point in the first palce.
If you clutter your presentation with too much bullet points, each sentence appears smaller for the audience and hence has to take a lot of strain reading it.
If you are showing data in a table, and if it contains too many columns and rows, it's again a recipe for disaster. Most people may not be able to grasp the figures and understand your argument related to it.
I think Power Point works well in a small audience of 10-12 people in a discussion room provided you don't clutter it with too much words and data.
Pictures and video in Power Point can be effective provided it is very relevant to what you are talking about.Here again, clarity is a must-- if it's downloaded from You Tube or Google, poor resolutiion can spoil the show.
However, I have found many experts who don't use the Power Point at all gaining attention of the audience and with a little bit of humour, they can really keep the audience enthralled.
The benefits of PowerPoint are continuously debated. The term "PowerPoint hell" has been coined for long, tedious PowerPoint presentations that bore the audience, according to Wikipedia.
These points taken from WikiHow are worth noting:
-Don't use too much text in one template. Otherwise it would look too crowded and strenuous to the eyes. Not to mention boring.
-Don't use too many special effects as it can get distracting and annoying.
-Remember the more objects embedded in a PowerPoint, the larger the file. So if you're planning on saving it on a disk, you have to keep the file small unless saving the file on a thumb drive (jump drive) or burning it on CD.
Microsoft Power Point was launched officially on May 22, 1990, as part of Microsoft Office suite.It no doubt helps in creating presentations in no time compared to slides of yesteryears projected on slide projectors which consumed a lot of time and energy to produce. Properly used slide projectors had much more clarity and effectiveness to take the message across to the audience.
Last week, our company itself had an investors program in Kochi and speaker-after-speaker tried to use Power Point but with little effect. Some of the tables and points were hardly legible to an audience sitting in the middle to back of the auditorium. Even those sitting in the front rows had to struggle to see the fine print.
I think the problem crops up due to lack of knowledge on how to use Power Point in the first palce.
If you clutter your presentation with too much bullet points, each sentence appears smaller for the audience and hence has to take a lot of strain reading it.
If you are showing data in a table, and if it contains too many columns and rows, it's again a recipe for disaster. Most people may not be able to grasp the figures and understand your argument related to it.
I think Power Point works well in a small audience of 10-12 people in a discussion room provided you don't clutter it with too much words and data.
Pictures and video in Power Point can be effective provided it is very relevant to what you are talking about.Here again, clarity is a must-- if it's downloaded from You Tube or Google, poor resolutiion can spoil the show.
However, I have found many experts who don't use the Power Point at all gaining attention of the audience and with a little bit of humour, they can really keep the audience enthralled.
The benefits of PowerPoint are continuously debated. The term "PowerPoint hell" has been coined for long, tedious PowerPoint presentations that bore the audience, according to Wikipedia.
These points taken from WikiHow are worth noting:
-Don't use too much text in one template. Otherwise it would look too crowded and strenuous to the eyes. Not to mention boring.
-Don't use too many special effects as it can get distracting and annoying.
-Remember the more objects embedded in a PowerPoint, the larger the file. So if you're planning on saving it on a disk, you have to keep the file small unless saving the file on a thumb drive (jump drive) or burning it on CD.
Microsoft Power Point was launched officially on May 22, 1990, as part of Microsoft Office suite.It no doubt helps in creating presentations in no time compared to slides of yesteryears projected on slide projectors which consumed a lot of time and energy to produce. Properly used slide projectors had much more clarity and effectiveness to take the message across to the audience.
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