Best practices PowerPoint – Prepare your presentations

Goals

Know how to use PowerPoint's features wisely to create quality presentations. Improve the impact of your presentation through careful preparation of text and visual elements.

Prerequisite

Knowledge of the Windows environment and a good knowledge of PowerPoint.

Contents

Pedagogical method

Participative training, combining the learning of office functionalities and the corresponding good practices.

Program

Preparing your presentation

• The different elements of a presentation

• Before you start : Considering the audience and identifying the objectives of the presentation

• Gathering and summarising material

• Structuring the presentation

• The principle of the 3-point explanation

Designing a clear and impactful text

• Powerful headlines

• Word choice

• Syntax

Highlighting the text visually

• Guiding the eye of the reader

• Bullet points: interest and precautions

The golden rules for designing slides

• The ideal text proportions

• Designing slides in a consistent way

• Overview of visual elements

• Promoting readability through clever positioning of slide elements

• Avoid distractors!

• The power of images

• Illustrate your points with graphics