PowerPoint Tip: Using diagrams created in drawing tools In the last couple of months I’ve seen some new drawing tools come out that allow you to create your own diagram or drawing and use it on your slides. One was tweeted by Johanna Rehnvall, and is a program called Simple Diagrams at http://www.simplediagrams.com/home. The other…
Author: Dave Paradi
“How Many Slides?” is the wrong question to ask; Issue #204 February 23, 2010
PowerPoint Tip: “How Many Slides?” is the wrong question to ask I often get asked in workshops, “How many slides should I have for an x minute presentation?” And I’ve now come to the conclusion that this isn’t even the right question to be asking. In the past, when we put up a slide and…
A method for effectively presenting a graph image from another program; Issue #203 February 9, 2010
PowerPoint Tip: Drawing on top of graphs Graphs that you create in PowerPoint are easy to work with and present because you can animate them easily. But not all of our graphs will be created in PowerPoint. Sometimes we will need to use a graph that has been created in a graphics program and saved…
Three helpful tips to use when creating and editing PowerPoint slides; Issue #202 January 26, 2010
PowerPoint Tip: Little tips that make a big difference It is usually the little things in life that can make the biggest difference. Like a small change to our routine can help us gain more time for priorities such as family. And when using PowerPoint, sometimes the small tips make the biggest impact. When I…
Five slide project update presentation; Issue #201 January 12, 2010
PowerPoint Tip: Five slide project update presentation How many executives really want to sit through a 45 slide project update presentation? The one where the presenter details every little item and confuses the heck out of them? My guess is that no executives want to spend their valuable time that way. So what do you…
Best slide ever; Issue #200 December 15, 2009
PowerPoint Tip: Best slide ever While I was at the PowerPoint Live conference in October, I was interviewed by Ron Galloway, who is doing a documentary film on PowerPoint. Here’s how he describes the film: “Regarding Powerpoint” will attempt to put the program’s influence on business, education, and thinking into meaningful context. The film will…
Sequence of Information matters; Issue #199 December 1, 2009
PowerPoint Tip: Sequence of Information matters Research by Michael Posner reported in John Medina’s book Brain Rules shows why the typical sequence of information is not helping our presentations be as effective as they could be. I’ve been sharing this with my workshop audiences this year and I’d like to share it with you in…
Issue #198 November 17, 2009
PowerPoint Tip: More results from the Annoying PowerPoint Survey Note: the latest survey results can be found here. I’ve already reported on what audiences find most annoying based on the survey completed by 548 people. The text overload epidemic continues and the number one annoyance again is the presenter reading the slides to the audience.…
Issue #197 November 3, 2009
PowerPoint Tip: Top Ideas from PowerPoint Live I’m back from PowerPoint Live and today’s tip is about the top ideas I learned while at the conference. First off, the conference is changing its name. It is now known as The Presentation Summit, reflecting the evolution of the content beyond just software features to many other…
Issue #196 October 20, 2009
PowerPoint Tip: Results of the Fourth Annoying PowerPoint Survey The message from my biennial survey of what annoys audiences about bad PowerPoint presentations is that audiences are fed up with the overload of text on slides and how that text causes presenters to read the slides to them. A total of 548 people responded to…