Best tips to improve your powerpoint presentation skill

Technical students have many presentation of their research, reports, methods and results. To make our technical presentation more qualitative, impressive and interesting, we have to take care of certain points while making our powerpoints. Powerpoint is one of the common program for making these type of presentations. Therefore, I am discussing here the important tips for making quality powerpoints for technical presentations

Selecting background

In professional and technical presentation, we have to be cautious selecting background colour in MS powerpoint. The background should be very clear and plain. In most of the cases it s recommended to use white plain background because texts will be clearly visible in white background. Furthermore we can use black background as well, however, we have to select contrasting text colour, for instant in white background black text would be contrasting and vice-versa. 

Selecting text colour

In technical presentation we should be cautious selecting text colour. Text colour should be clear and visible from far distance. We should have to choose very contrasting colour with background. We should not use very dark and very light colour because it may not visible to audience. 

Sentence format

Us of simple and plain sentence in the writing is highly recommended. Main aim of the oral presentation is to delivery the key message, however, choosing the very complex sentence format may not help. We may have diverse audience so all audience may not have same level of background and understanding. Therefore, we always have to make very simple sentences, so everyone can understand easily. 

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Do not make your slides too wordy

To deliver message clearly to audience we have to use very short and attractive phrases and words. We should not use many words and should not add paragraphs. Because, audience do not have time to read the whole texts plus audience do not clearly understand the message. Including whole paragraph is not interesting and impressive, so it would be boring plus too many information is not digestible to audience. 

Use graphs and pictures to deliver the message

Including graphs, images and flow charts instead of text would be more impressive and audience can understand. Photos and images are more interesting and easy to deliver the message. To cover the whole diverse range of audience, inclusion of more images, graphs and pictures helps. Audience can understand the message from images and pictures. 

And finally avoid animate the text and powerpoint

Animation is not good to include in technical presentation because animation can drag the attention of audience. Audience always do not understand the overall message you going to deliver if you animate the text because it interfere the concentration of audience. If you are very good on animating you can animate but animation should be fairly balanced. Animation should be very well balanced between your creativity and message delivery. However, there is always a chance to have poor balance or lose balance, so it is always recommended to avoid animation.