How to Make Your PPT Slides Stand Out: Practical Tips for Engaging Presentations

Dear All,

A few tips which will make your PPT slides impressive:

1. Not more than six lines per slide.
2. Not more than six words per line.
3. Not more than three colors for fonts.
4. Fonts should be simple.
5. Use fonts according to the audience you have (e.g., Times New Roman for a very formal crowd and Comic Sans for a college crowd or youngsters).
6. Font size 24 to 28 for central matter, 34 to 40 for titles.
7. Slide numbers are compulsory except for the title slide (Reason: If someone wants any clarification, they can just mention the slide number, and you can jump to that particular slide).
8. Topic should be mentioned on all slides at the bottom (except for the title slide). It keeps the audience aware of the topic throughout.
9. Do not use a lot of animations (It is disturbing to the eyes). Keep it as simple as possible.
10. Time settings are risky.

Hope you all find these tips useful.

Regards,
Manasi Bhor
(Soft Skills and English Language Trainer)
Email: manasee_bhor@yahoo.com

Thank you for the good information, Manasi. Could you please help us by providing some more information on training the bottom-line employees? Also, can you assist us with a few PowerPoint presentations?

Dear Mansi,

The tips you have given are really very useful. I'm sure you can help me out. Can you please assist me with the motivation survey questionnaire? Ours is an automobile manufacturing company, and we need to measure the motivation level of the employees. Please help me if you have any material related to that.

Thanks and Regards

Hi,

This is an informative and useful posting. One more point to consider is that the background could be a dark color (blue or black), and the font could be bright (white or yellow). This will impress the viewers.

Regards,
Rajan

Hi, to one and all.

Hello Manasee, this is Viji. I have come across your PPT suggestion; it was extremely good and would be useful to me in my project. Can you provide me with more information about recruitment and selection of employees? Can you help with the questionnaire part as this is my first time doing a project and I am unable to proceed further? I hope that anybody who has completed their project before can guide me more.

I am looking forward to a reply from you and others. Also, please continue to post such useful information if you have any.

Thank you.

With regards,
Vijji

Hi Manasi,

Thank you for the useful tips on PPT preparation. It would be great if you could share some presentations for bottom-line employees (workmen) on soft skills such as attitude and teamwork.

Best wishes,
Lolita