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Lesson 8 - Presentation Skills

The document discusses presentation skills and software. It describes how presentation software allows users to create visual aids to communicate ideas to groups. It specifically discusses Microsoft PowerPoint, a presentation program created in the 1980s that became part of the Microsoft Office suite. The document then provides tips for effective presentations, including keeping slide counts minimal, using clear and easy-to-read fonts, limiting content to summarize information for the audience, incorporating relevant visuals like graphics and charts, maintaining a consistent design, and using contrasting colors for text and backgrounds to aid readability.

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Lesson 8 - Presentation Skills

The document discusses presentation skills and software. It describes how presentation software allows users to create visual aids to communicate ideas to groups. It specifically discusses Microsoft PowerPoint, a presentation program created in the 1980s that became part of the Microsoft Office suite. The document then provides tips for effective presentations, including keeping slide counts minimal, using clear and easy-to-read fonts, limiting content to summarize information for the audience, incorporating relevant visuals like graphics and charts, maintaining a consistent design, and using contrasting colors for text and backgrounds to aid readability.

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Presentation skills

Advance Presentation skills

Presentation Software
Is an application software that
allows users to create visual aids
for presentations to
communicate ideas, messages
and other info to a group
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Advance Presentation skills
Microsoft Powerpoint
 Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, created by
Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin at a software company
named Forethought, Inc.
 PowerPoint became a component of the Microsoft
Office suite, first offered in 1989 for Macintosh and in 1990
for Windows, which bundled several Microsoft apps.
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Minimize: Keep slides counts to a
minimum to maintain a clear
message and to keep the audience
attentive. Remember that the
presentation is just a visual aid. Most
information should still come from
the reporter.
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Minimize: Keep slides counts to a minimum to
maintain a clear message and to keep the
audience attentive.
• Remember that the presentation is just a
visual aid.
• Most information should still come from the
reporter.
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Clarity: Avoid being too fancy by using font style
that is easy to read.
• Make sure that it is also big enough to be read
by the audience.
• Once you start making your presentation,
consider how big the screen is during your
report.
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Simplicity: Use bullets or short sentences.
 Summarize the information on the screen to
have your audience focus on what the speaker
is saying than on reading the slide.
 Limit the content to six lines and seven words
per line.
 This is known as the 6 x 7 rule.
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Visual: Use graphics to help in your
presentation but not too many to distract
the audience.
• In addition, instead of using table of
data, use charts and graphs.
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Consistency: Make your design uniform.
• Avoid having different font styles and
backgrounds.
Contrast: Use a light font on
dark background or vice versa.
• This is done so that it is easier to read. 
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