This document summarizes common PowerPoint mistakes made by presenters. It notes that putting all text from a presentation on slides can make them wordy and lose audience attention. Other mistakes include not spelling checking slides, using excessive bullet points that do not emphasize key messages, and distracting backgrounds or fonts that strain viewers' eyes. The document advocates keeping slides clear and concise to engage audiences.

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3. Common PowerPoint mistake
People tend to put every word
they are saying on their Power
Point slide. Although this
eliminates the need to
memorize your talk, ultimately
this makes your slides crowded,
wordy and boring. You will loose
your audience attention before your
presentation reaches the bottom of
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4. Common PowerPoint mistake
• ……… First slide

5. Top 10 things amateurs say
1. I’M VERY NERVOUS/UNPREPARED
2. THE -------- IS NOT WORKING
3. YOU PROBABLY CAN’T READ THIS
4. LET ME READ THIS
5. IF I COULD NOW HAVE YOUR UNDIVIDED
ATTENTION
6. I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS SLIDE
7. DO I HAVE ANY TIME LEFT?
8. I’M SORRY BUT I CAN’T SEE YOU FROM HERE
9. OBVIOUSLY (CLEARLY, BASICALLY, NATURALLY)
10. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? NO. GREAT.

6. Common PowerPoint mistake
Many people do not run spel cheek before
their presentation
BIG
MISTAK!!!.

7. Common PowerPoint mistake
• Avoid excessive
• Bullet Pointing
• Only
• Bullet
• Key points
• Too Many
• Bullet Points
• And
• Your
• Key
• Messages
• Will
• NOT
• Stand
• Out
• In fact
• The
• Term
• Bullet
• Point
• Comes
• From
• People
• Firing
• Guns
• At
• Annoying
• presenters

8. Most presentations aren't bullet proof
• Bullets do not save time. Memos save time. Presentations aren't about the most
concise exposition of facts, they are about changing minds.
• Bullets are actually aggressive, they're gotchas lying in wait to be brought up later,
either by an observer calling you out or a presenter reminding us he told us so.
• Bullets do not make it easier to remember what's being said.
• Bullets create tension about what the next bullet is going to say, instead of actually
communicating your idea. When we see a bullet, we check it off and stop paying
attention until the next one appears.
• Bullets are almost always misused. If you have a finite number of points, each of
which supports the other, one can imagine that they help us fit the puzzle together.
But that's now how they're used, are they? Most people use them the way I'm
using them now, as a disorderly almost random list.
• You've already forgotten the second bullet, haven't you? That's because bullets
don't naturally map to the way we process and remember ideas.
• If bullets are the official style of your organization, using them is a form of being
invisible.
• Without a doubt, bullets make it far easier to read your presentation to people in
the room. For those with no time to practice or unable to say what's in their heart,
bullets are perfect.

9. Clashing background and fun colors can lead to:
• Distraction
• Confusion
• Headache
• vomiting
• nausea and
• loss of bladder control
Common PowerPoint mistake

10. Common PowerPoint mistake

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Common PowerPoint mistake

12. Common PowerPoint mistake
This font is bad
This font is worse
This font is really bad
This font is jokeman seriously!
Can you even read this at the back?
This is Times New Roman
This is Arial
This is Tahoma
This is my handwriting

13. Red Text Blue Text
Pointless
Motion
Common PowerPoint mistake

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