Nine rules to follow for a professional PowerPoint presentation!

Unprofessionally designed slides can ruin your presentation and your career, as a PowerPoint presentation can be a very effective tool in communicating your ideas to a group of people, however, when preparing your presentation, a bad presentation can be easily obtained if you do not follow the rules that we will mention here, here are nine rules you must follow to create professional slides and keep your audience engaged:

Rule #1: Don't read text from the slides during the presentation

During your presentation, the audience's focus should be on you and not on the slides, if you only read the slides, what is the point of your presence, the slides are not a book to read from but an auxiliary factor to facilitate the delivery of information to the audience.

Rule #2: Use an appropriate font size

Using small fonts leads to unreadable text and confuses the audience, always use a font size that can be seen from the back of the room (usually at least 30) and use fonts that are clear and easy to read - find in the following link: Best Arabic fonts for PowerPoint presentations

Rule #3: Show the audience exactly what you want them to see

Highlighting words helps focus your audience on the important parts of the presentation by changing the color of a single word, enlarging an image, or using a large font: Changing the color of a single word, enlarging an image, or using a large font, which helps to engage the audience.

Rule #4: Keep words and images close together

Most people place the information in their slides too far apart and randomly which distracts the audience, keep the elements close together for more effective learning.

Rule #5: Use high-quality images

The worst slides are: Low-resolution, blurry, poorly cropped or watermarked images, always use high-resolution images - find them at the following link:  Sites that offer millions of high-resolution images

Rule #6: Less is more

The best slides are the simplest! Don't stack too much text and elements in one slide, extra content distracts the audience, less is more.

Rule #7: Consistent appearance

It is important to maintain consistency when creating the presentation in terms of (colors - fonts - alignment - ... and others), this will lead to a stronger and more professional presentation and will give a positive impression on the audience, if you are not a professional designer, it is better to use ready-made PowerPoint templates and then modify them to suit your company or business identity - you can find in the following link templates that you can download for free: PowerPoint templates

Rule #8: Avoid using too many movements

It's tempting to add special effects and animations all over the place like transitions between slides or adding animations to elements and text, instead, minimize animations and transitions and focus on your core message.

Rule #9: Create slides as the last step, not the first.

A common mistake when preparing a presentation is to start designing the slides first, instead, leave this task until the end, the design of the slides should be the final touch and not the main focus, you have to take care of the content first and then the design.

And always remember:

- #1: Don't read text from slides during the show

- # 2:Use an appropriate font size

- # 3: Show the audience exactly what you want them to see

- # 4: Keep words and images close together

- #5: Use high-quality images

- #6: Less is more

- # 7: Consistent appearance.

- # 8: Avoid using too many movements

- # 9: Create the slides as the last step, not the first.