The document provides tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations with good design principles. It discusses keeping bullets on the left side and not scattered, using relevant backgrounds that do not distract from content, employing high contrast colors for readability, including only a few relevant graphics, limiting items in lists to around four, pairing words and images close together, using a consistent font throughout, and applying bold, italics, or underlining sparingly and strategically for emphasis.

1. PowerPoint
Bad Bullets
• The bullets
• Should be on the
• Left side of the
• Page
• Not scattered all Over the place

2. Good Bullets
• This is where
• The bullets should
• Be located.

3. Bad Backgrounds
The Background should be Relevant to the
material that you are talking about.

4. Good Backgrounds
The background should not take away from the
material.

5. Good Contrast
Using white colors on a dark background helps
to make the letters stand out.

6. Bad Contrast
Use Contrasting colors to make them stand out!!

7. Good Graphics
This is a picture of Mt.
Bachelor.

8. Bad Graphics
Too many graphics.

9. Rule of Four: Bad
Types of Fruit
• Apples
• Pears
• Strawberries
• Bananas
• Peaches
• Plums
• Grapes
• Pineapple
• Mangos
Types of Vegetables:
• Carrots
• Onion
• Potato
• Pepper
• Leeks
• Peas
• Cucumbers
• Celery
This is way to many things in each column.

10. Rule of four: Good
Nice places to visit in Oregon:
1. Illinois River
2. The Coast
3. Umpqua Falls
4. Columbia River

11. Proximity: Bad
Apple
Microsoft
Words should be with the Pictures that they go with.

12. Proximity: Good
This is the world tallest Building located in Dubai

13. Fonts: Bad
Fonts can make the slide confusing and hard
to read. Try to stick to the same font
throughout the PowerPoint. Using common
font is also helpful. Never use all capitalized
words, instead use bold letters. Only
us different fonts if it will add to
your slide and not take away from it.

14. Fonts: Good
Fonts can make the slide confusing and hard to
read. Try to stick to the same font throughout the
PowerPoint. Using common font is also helpful.
Never use all capitalized words, instead use bold
letters. Only us different fonts if it will add to
your slide and not take away from it.
See how much easier this is to read compared to
the last slide!!

15. Perceptional Differences: Bad
Bold, Italic, and Underlined words can be hard
to read.
Use these only when it will help you make a
point on a slide.

16. Perceptional Differences: Good
Only use different fonts for emphasis.
Use fonts strategically.