How NOT to use Powerpoint
Just been reading a nice little piece about the abuse of Powerpoint (or PowerPoint as the Microsoft spellchecker insists on making it) over on David Airey’s blog.
As I rashly volunteered recently to put together a how-to session at work on PowerPoint tips and tricks, I think several of these may be making an appearance. I would add to the section on font choice though, that if you use Comic Sans, it doesn’t make you a wacky <shudder>, crazy, you don’t have to mad to work here kinda guy. It makes you Satan.
I’ll also just vent my other pet loathing, people who put together a lengthy agenda slide at the start of their presentation, follow it with the same points on further slides in more detail and then round off with a summary slide repeating the first one. By which point you’ve heard the same stuff three times and are texting nearby friends begging them to set off the fire alarm.
“Tell ‘em what your going to tell ‘em, tell ‘em and tell ‘em again” is an old presenting adage which works well when taken with a light touch and if the information is slightly reinterpreted at each interation. Taken literally, it has me sharpening the edges of pen caps for emergency usage on my wrists…
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