Survey Shows How to Stop Annoying Audiences
With Bad PowerPoint
| The speaker read the slides to us |
60.4% |
| Text so small I couldn't read it |
50.9% |
| Full sentences instead of bullet points |
47.8% |
| Slides hard to see because of color choice |
37.1% |
| Moving/flying text or graphics |
24.5% |
| Annoying use of sounds |
22.0% |
| Overly complex diagrams or charts |
22.0% |
Three common themes emerged from the free-form comments:
Poor Preparation of the Presentation
Balance of Slide Elements
Not Knowing How to Use the Technology
41.5% of the respondents said that more than 40% of
the presentations they see contain annoying elements
Microsoft’s statistics indicate
that there are
30 million PowerPoint presentations done each day
Too many presenters have used PowerPoint slides
as a substitute for themselves and think that the slides are the
presentation
presenters
must only put the key points on the slide and add to the point
with the depth of information that they share verbally
clipped from: www.indezine.com