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Presentation Guidelines
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Agenda/Table of Contents• Presentation guidelines• How to make this file smaller• Best practices examples
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Presentation GuidelinesThis presentation is intended to serve as a how-to guide for creating standard ThoughtFocus presentations• Font types
• Presentation title – Helvetica – 42• Slide title – Helvetica – 28• Slide side title – Helvetica - 24• Subtitle text – Avenir – 28• Content text – Avenir – 14-16• Content text (image, text box, table) – Avenir - 10-
12• Use maximum two font types• Use maximum three font sizes• The following is ThoughtFocus’ approved color palette:
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Presentation Guidelines• Bullet points
o Use 6 x 6 rule- 6 bullet points on a slide- 6 words per bullet point
• Bullet sizeo Select a bullet size slightly smaller than the font of
the text so it does not overpower the text itself• Bullet spacing
o Keep sufficient space between bullet and the first letter of the text so that the first word is readable.
• Presentation timeo 15 slides with 2 minutes per slideo This should include the Q/A interaction time
• Use a snappy title to get attention• Title should summarize the content
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Presentation Guidelines• Presentation design:
o Contrast colors- Dark text on light background- Light text on dark background- Avoid reds and oranges - use only to highlight
o Include bubbles, callouts and key takeawayso Charts/tables should contain limited data
• Presentation layouto Always include an agenda/table of contents o Presentation follows agenda ordero Use storyboarding with causes and impacts pattern
• Include presentation information in Propertieso Go to File -> Properties -> Summary
- Add relevant author and company information- It is used for tracking purposes
• Avoid all capital letters
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Presentation Guidelines• Remove the “What Not To Do?” slides highlighted in red
- They are included to show bad practices• Do not use the interior slides as a front cover slide for your
presentation• Do not just print the basic deck and take it to a client meeting
– there may be slides not required or inappropriate• Always leverage the template and stay on brand – badly
written or formatted presentations make the company look bad
• Do not change the master copy – always copy the file to your laptop and make changes there
• If you need a certain picture or template slide, marketing will create and include in the master deck
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How to Make this File SmallerIf you need to email a PPT to a client make a version of this file smaller after you edit it, follow the below
• Use PowerPoint’s compress pictures function to reduce the DPI of embedded images to something less than 220 dpi - It will not look as good when you print it but the
presentation will save as a smaller file• Switch to master view and delete all the template pages
you are not using- PowerPoint won’t let you delete templates you are using
in the deck• Depending on PC or Mac
- Print or save to a PDF file- Optimize the file for smaller images when producing it- Open the resulting file in Adobe Acrobat and do it
manually
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What Not To Do?
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Do not use small font sizes for images
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What Not To Do?
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What Not To Do?Add short description for imagesProvide appropriate location for description so that it does not overlap with adjacent text
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