From the course: Designing a Presentation

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Words and lists

Words and lists

From the course: Designing a Presentation

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Words and lists

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- [Narrator] If your presentation is intended to be persuasive, then you should limit the amount of words on your slides. Ideally, no more than five to seven works well. In education, the idea is different, as the slides may be on screen for a long time to be used as a reference, but even then, you should try to limit the volume. Ideally, 40 to 50 words at a maximum and only then, in a small number of bullet points, which are perhaps the most overused slide element in presentations. While there is a place for them, especially if you are delivering training or itemizing a specification, quite often they tend to be used as a crutch for presenters who aren't prepared, and even worse, when they simply read them out to their audience. You might consider using a sequence of slides rather than a group of bullets, because they're less distracting, and they also stop your audience pre-reading the bullets and effectively knowing the future, which may tempt them to switch off. If you simply must…

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