Powerpoint Guidelines (All presentations must be kept to a maximum of 15 minutes)
Images and colour/backgrounds will make your presentation more visually appealing; lots of text becomes uninteresting to the eye.
- The PowerPoint slides can be used to précis your presentation; pinpointing the key issues/points.
- Use of bullets and clear lines between points will reinforce them to the audience.
- Use an easy to read font such as Arial.
- Try not to use different fonts on one slide.
- Use the bold and underline features to highlight important information.
- Keep the slides uniform.
- Ensure that headlines are clear and are in a larger font, we suggest 35-40 point and bolded.
- Other text should be approximately 24 point.
- Use the whole slide to make the information as large and as clear as possible.
- Use contrasting text and background colours so that vital information is not hidden or hard to read.
- If your presentation has video or audio clips, ensure that you have all relevant files with you in order that the PowerPoint will operate as you envisage.


