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PowerPoint – tips
Last updated: September 3rd, 2021
Top tips:
- Use the Edwards templates to ensure design consistency, there is design guidance on page 3 of each template which can be deleted when you have finished your presentation
- Keep slides simple – slide ‘builds’ work well to communicate deeper or more complex subjects, revealing the next piece of information on the page as you talk through the subject
- Think about style and tone as well as content, e.g. how technical to make it?
- Limit the amount of text as it can distract from listening to the speaker
- Use interesting imagery and graphics, embedded videos, or add full page image slides that challenge the audience to think
- Ensure chart and infographics are accurate, some chart formats in the separate charts and icons deck allow you to configure them by adding data
- Make presentations more dynamic by including animations and page transitions but don’t overdo it. (eg, never fly text in one word at a time!)
Our primary and secondary colour palettes are built in (below).
The reduced number of page templates makes page choice much easier (below).
File sizes
A recent update to PowerPoint set the default to automatically compress the images in the file (See Options > Advanced > Image size and quality).
Manually reduce file size for emailing
- Select and image in your presentation by clicking it
- Go to the top menu and in the search bar next to ‘Format’ type ‘Compress pictures’
- Untick ‘Apply only to this picture’ and tick ‘Delete cropped areas of pictures’
- Save the presentation.
High resolution for printing or auditorium projection
To print a presentation or to project it in an auditorium, keep the image size at a higher resolution. A default resolution on the template is 220ppi, but it can be set to High Fidelity and no image compression.
Animations and page transitions
Make presentations more dynamic by including animations and page transitions but don’t overdo it. (eg, never fly text in one word at a time!)