Who can give me some "pro tips" on creating a PowerPoint presentation?
I’ve made several, and taught myself a thing or two as I went along, but I would appreciate some expert advice, for example, how long, on average, to leave one picture on display. What fonts to use. What transitions to use. Colors. That kind of thing.
And do you make your own formats, or do you use the preset formats (I’ve always created my own.)
The theme is to showcase Habitat houses we’ve built in this community. Today I got access to a little over a million pictures from 1993 to present! I’m exaggerating but it’s at least a thousand so I need to start culling editing.
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Do you have an idea of how long the presentation is supposed to be? 10 minutes? 20 minutes? A half hour?
No. I’m just doing this on my own. I figure it’s something we could run during fund raisers and things like that, which can run for a few hours, you know. It isn’t any kind of time constrained formal presentation.
Do you know how to use the group and ungroup? That can be very handy.
Do not fill the slides with oodles of text.
Only like 3 to 4 bullet points, at most.
Set up select pictures on display boards on easels so people can look them over at their leisure.
Yes I do @JLeslie.
Thanks you guys. It will mostly be the story in pictures, not many words. How long should I leave each picture up? 2 seconds? Less than that? I once counted the seconds between different takes on TV shows. The picture changed in some way, even if to just show the same person from a different angle, every 5 seconds, if I remember right.
“Presentation Zen” is on it’s way @Caravanfan. Thank you.
Thanks so much y’all. Keep suggestions coming!
@Dutchess_III Is it just going to be a slide show (like running in the background like at a wake when they have photos of the deceased), or is someone going to do a verbal presentation to accompany it? If there’s a verbal presentation, then the person will advance the photos when they finish saying what they have to say about each photo.
I think more like 8 seconds. 2 is definitely too short. IMO.
Well, create a power point with about 50 pictures, set them all to transition at 8 seconds and see how long it takes you to get bored @JLeslie!
It’s not a “presentation” per se . It’s just an interest thing @jca2. Some thing for folks to just glance at as they’re walking past.
What I want to show is a collage of the volunteers building, different phases of construction, the finished products(s) inside and out, happy families and happy volunteers, glimpses of fund raisers and where we’ve come since they started in this town in 1993. Like that.
@Dutchess_III I always want the photos to go a little slower than they are typically programmed.
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