Video player not working?0:000:000:00SettingsQualityAutoAudioSpeed1×CaptionsOffHow Not To Use A PowerpointDula TVFunny videos since 2008Thumbs up0Thumbs down0 Share1.5K views Sep 2008Comedian Don McMillan gives a humorous breakdown of common mistakes people make with PowerPoint presentations. Show transcript0:01There's some things I hate about PowerPoint, and I figure it's kind of my duty to point them out.0:05So here we go. Here's common PowerPoint mistakes. Uh, number 1, uh, people tend to put every word they are going to say on their PowerPoint slides.0:17Although this eliminates the need to memorize your talk, ultimately this makes your slides crowded, wordy, and boring.0:22You will lose your audience's attention before you even reach the bottom of your, uh, first slide.0:33Ple- please don't do that anymore, please.0:37Uh, number 2, most common, uh, many people do not run spell cheek.0:42Big mistake. Nothing makes you look stupider than spelling errors.0:49If it's got a red line under it, recheck the spelling!0:53And finally, I hate this, uh, avoid excessive bullet pointing, only bullet key points.0:59Too many bullet points, and your key messages will not stand out.1:04In fact, the term bullet point comes from people firing guns at annoying presenters.1:17Hence the bullet point.1:22Uh, bad color schemes, not good.1:26Clashing background and font colors can lead to distraction, confusion, headache, nausea, vomiting, and loss of bladder control.1:35I can't stay on that one too long.1:39Here's something I've noticed, uh, the number of PowerPoint slides you have in your talk, uh, the less, uh, useful your talk actually is.1:47Unfortunately, uh, my presentation is right there.1:52I've also noticed this, people love to pack data into their presentation.1:55They just shove more and more data thinking it's better, but it's not.1:58The more data you have, the harder it is to read your slide, and the effectiveness plummets.2:03Now you can, uh, you can improve the effectiveness by adding some shading and some 3D effects and then some second order and third order effects, and then I know, let's add some labels,2:12that'll help a lot. And that's, that's pretty much every marketing slide I've ever seen right there.2:21Yeah.2:25Then some like VP of marketing standing there going, it's real clear in Q4.2:28What the hell are you talking about?2:34Now I Now, I'm, I'm into, uh, an animation. People become animators in PowerPoint.2:38You can have things flying all over the place, and that can be good.2:40If you're a visual learner, that will improve the effectiveness of your performance.2:44But if you're easily distracted, more animations, and people have no idea what you're talking about.2:48They're just, wow, that is cool, wow. And there's regions here, by the way.2:52There's the, uh, simple but effective region. There's the active but confusing, the, uh, effective but boring, the active but ineffective, the dull but static region, the uh, busy but useless,3:01the ADD only region, the useful but amusing, the stupid but confusing, the dull triangle, the hyper triangle, the sleepy square, the dizzying pentagon, and everything else I just uh,3:10call pointless motion.3:15That slide right there took me an hour and a half to make, right there.3:20PowerPoint can just suck the life out of you. It's amazing.3:25I've also come up with this. It's a kind of a little science I've invented called font analysis.3:29Basically, the font you choose says something about who you are as a person.3:33There's a huge list of fonts, and you choose one, and that says something about you.3:36So be careful the font you choose. For example, if you choose Courier New, uh, which happens to be my favorite, uh, you're probably organized and structured.3:44If you choose Matisse, it means you're artistic. And if you choose Times New Roman, it means you're lazy, apathetic, and unimaginative, and you always use the default.3:54Oh.
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