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A foolproof method that I have used to great success: Use the 6 by 6 rule: keep your slides to a maximum of 6 words per line, and 6 lines per slide. Budget ab
by na85 10y ago
A foolproof method that I have used to great success:
Use the 6 by 6 rule: keep your slides to a maximum of 6 words per line, and 6 lines per slide.
Budget about 30 seconds per slide, and then talk about the things that your slides outline; don't just read what's on the slide.
You can add notes to the slides that don't show up in the presentation but I prefer to use a piece of paper as it lets you walk around.
- v3gas 10y ago30 seconds per slide? are you mad?
- vitno 10y agoThat seems about right for me, assuming it's being used in a presentation.
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- vog 10y agoI'm confused by your statement. Do you think that 30s/slide is too fast or too slow?
- na85 10y agoTry it, it's actually pretty good pacing. The most boring presentations are the ones where they spend like 10 minutes a slide.
- basdp 10y agoThis is exactly what the OP didn't ask for. He wants to learn the software. He doesn't want to learn how to present.
- richardboegli 10y agoOP did ask for "best practices"
- tawayway 10y agoI may not have been clear enough in the OP. Yes, I want to learn the software and not general presentation skills. I usually know what I need in a document, I just want to spend less time putting it together. To edit text files quickly I learnt vim commands, I'd like to find something similar to take the sting out of working with PP. Keyboard driven workflows, advanced features etc. Right now I am doing a lot of clicking, a lot of inserting textboxes, changing text formats and dragging things around on slides. I would like to type and hit a few shortcuts as I go to arrange things. I appreciate people suggesting rules for numbers of slides and tips for preparing to speak but that isn't what the problem is.
- na85 10y agoMy mistake. I guess it didn't occur to me that a HN user wouldn't know how to use powerpoint.
- tawayway 10y agoI know how to use it in the sense that everyone knows how, the basic usage is drag-and-drop. I just have no interest in spending a large chunk of my day dragging-and-dropping if it can be avoided (through automation, templating, shortcuts etc). When you prepare slides several times a year you can get by with the usual method, when it's weekly I would rather spend a couple of hours upfront learning the software inside out. I thought this would be apparent to HN users from the OP.