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10 Rules for Creating Successful Power Point Presentations
I’ve blogged many times on how NOT to use Power Point. Most people use it incorrectly, and it becomes a barrier between speaker and audience. For example, they create word slides, really speaker notes, with many bullets of text, expecting – what? – the audience to read along with them? Or, they go nuts with the animation, swoops, and flying headlines that make audiences dizzy to little purpose. Or they use cheap-looking clip art that creates a tacky image of speaker and organization in the mind of the audience.
But what about the right way to use Power Point? What does that look like? Is there any right way? Following are 10 rules for using Power Point successfully.
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When you use a word processor, such as Word, you just keep typing. Type type type. Word knows where the margins are. You can see the margins, too: the dotted rectangle on the page shows you where they are. Just keep typing and Word will wrap the text within the margins.

Don 't press Enter at the end of every line. Press Enter to indicate the end of a paragraph, not the end of a line.

Make sure you can see when you have pressed Enter

OK: So there 's this big rule that says "don 't press Enter at the end of every line". But, you say, I can 't see whether I 've pressed Enter or not. So what 's the big deal? This section explains how to see when you 've pressed Enter.

Just as an experiment, type some text in Word, then press Enter several times. Your document might look something like the example below.

This is some text¶







¶ Can you see the effect of having pressed Enter several times? Your machine may not have set up Word to show you. If you can 't see the ¶ signs, click the ¶ button on the Standard Toolbar. The ¶ is a symbol meaning the end of a paragraph. Word will show you where you have pressed Enter by displaying this symbol. The symbol doesn 't print. It 's just there to enable you to see what 's going on.

You can delete a paragraph mark in the same way as you would delete text. You can press Backspace to reverse over them, or use niftier ways that you 'll see in later

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