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Guidelines For Preparing Powerpoint Slide Presentations
Guidelines For Preparing Powerpoint Slide Presentations
GuidelinesforPreparingPowerPointSlidePresentations
Lastupdated19June2008
GeneralPowerPointSlideGuidelines|WordSlides|TabularSlides|GraphSlides|ChartSlides
Pleaseobservethesebasicrules:
Eachslideshouldillustrateasinglepointoridea
Uselarge,Legibleletters
Donotcrowdtheslide
Messageslidesshouldcontainnomorethan7lineswith7orfewerwordsperline.
GeneralPowerPointSlideGuidelines
Keepthedataonslidessimple.Ifyouhaveagreatdealofdata,divideitamongseveralslides.Thecontentofasingleslide
shouldbeeasilycomprehendedin20seconds.Remember:Sevenlinesperslideandsevenwordsperline!
Uselarge,legibleletters.
Ifyourdataslidesareblackandwhite,whiteonablackbackgroundshowsupbetterthanblackonawhitebackground.
Ifyourdataslidesareincolor,useonlylightcolors,suchaswhiteandyellow,onadarkbackground,suchasdarkblue.Donot
usecolorssuchasredorpurple.
Keepslidesofradiographslight.Denseordarkslidesprojectpoorlyinlargerooms.Enlargingthesignificantareasandusing
arrowstopointoutthespecificareaorlesionoftenhelp.
Patientconfidentialitymustbeprotected.Nonamesshouldappearontheslides.
Avoidcommercialreferenceunlessmandatory.Alogoorinstitutionalidentificationshouldappearonlyonthefirsttitleslide.Do
notusesuchidentificationasaheaderoneachslide.
Limitthenumberofslidestonomorethanone(1)foreachminuteofyourpresentation.Theslidesshouldnotcontainyourentire
presentation.Theirpurposeistosupportyourtalkandtoemphasizetheimportantpoints.
WordSlides:
Titleslidesshouldcontainfiveorfewerwords.
Spacesbetweenlinesshouldbeatleasttheheightofanuppercaseletter
TabularSlides:
Usegraphsratherthantablesifpossible
Keeptabularslidesasbriefaspossible
Twoormoresimpleslidesarebetterthanonecomplicatedslide
Donotcrowdtheslide
Makethetypeaslargeaspossible
GraphSlides:
Keepgraphssimple
Roundofffigures
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Limitthenumberofcaptions
Uselinegraphstoshowtrendsorchangingrelationships
Usebargraphstocomparevolumes.
ChartSlides:
Simplifychartstokeepthemlegible
Breakupcomplexchartsintoaseriesofslides.
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