Example deck that does most things you need to do in powerpoint when building an effective presentation for live and leave-behind use.

1. Title
Subtitle

2. Agenda
• Point 1
• Point 2, which requires a lot of verbiage to
describe on the agenda.
• Point 3
2

3. Agenda
• Point 1
• Point 2, which requires a lot of verbiage to
describe on the agenda.
• Point 3
3

4. Content Slide Title
Main Take-Home Message of Slide
• Other points
• Which
• Must Be Added
4

5. Another Content Slide Title
Main Take-Home Message of Slide
• Other points
• Which
• Must Be Added
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6. Agenda
• Point 1
• Point 2, which requires a lot of verbiage to
describe on the agenda.
• Point 3
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7. Slide with a Visual
Main Take-Home Message
of Slide
• Other points
• Which
• Must Be Added
• Visual 
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8. Agenda
• Point 1
• Point 2, which requires a lot of verbiage to
describe on the agenda.
• Point 3
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9. A slide I built free-form. With clip art,
Another classic PPT no-no.
Was it worth it?
Let’s discuss that right here in tiny print, in
detail. Anyone have an unreadable
architecture diagram we could add?
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Here’s a hyperlink! To
71 Compelling and
Surprising Tips and
Tricks for using
PowerPoint from the
Pros! Reading it in
print? Too bad.

10. No, it was not worth it
•Don’tdoweirdfreeform
stuff,anddon’tdoweird
builtinstuff,evenifyou
can.
•Thislayoutwasbuiltin.
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11. 11
Proofrede

12. Fun Quiz
• Name three things we learned from this deck.
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Did you guess any of these?
• Decks should be short
• Slides should not have a lot of words
• Never be creative
• And so on.

13. To Recap
• Point 1
• Point 2, which requires a lot of verbiage to
describe on the agenda.
• Point 3
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14. Questions?

15. Appendix

16. More content
• “Just in case”
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