How to get a start with PowerPoint Presentation?

By Riffat Mughal

How to get a start with PowerPoint Presentation?

PowerPoint Presentations allows you to convey a message, proposal, story, business opportunity, research work or any detailed work in a concise way. It’s basically conveying your message in a concise, concrete, complete, correct, courteous, coherent and clear way. PowerPoint presentations consist of slides and a theme which helps you to make an effective communication without any hazard.

Why PowerPoint Presentations are important?

The main objective of PowerPoint presentations is to make it easy the topic that you want to deliver to your audience. It saves time and cost. It allows you to increase your audience knowledge with the help of both verbal and nonverbal way of communication like text, pictures and the personality of the speaker, his voice and gestures he/she makes while presenting their subject or topic of interest. No matters you belong to which field PowerPoint presentation is the most convenient method for effective communication.

What you need, to make a basic PowerPoint Presentation?

First and the foremost thing that you need for getting a start is Microsoft PowerPoint installed in your PC or laptop. The second most important factor is selection of the topic that you want to communicate to your audience. An example is given below which would help you to get the start with snapshots:

Topic Selection:

The foremost important thing is to select the topic for your presentation. While selecting the topic consider your audience that for whom you are creating the presentation, the age group to whom the topic will attract and create interest. Let suppose you are a marketing student of Bachelor’s program. Your Principles of Marketing teacher has given you the topic of Marketing Mix and has asked you to prepare a presentation for 5 minutes time period that should be based on only 7 slides and also include examples.

Now the topic for our presentation is “Marketing Mix”.

Theme Selection:

The second important thing is selection of PowerPoint theme based on your topic. Microsoft PowerPoint has given multiple default themes for your presentations you can select one from them or you can make your own. Well to get a start, we will select the predetermined default theme for our presentation.

Steps to select a theme:

• Go to Start Button and select PowerPoint Presentation to open it.

• Go to New and click on it.

• PowerPoint Presentation will be opened. 

• Now go to Design Tab on the top and select any theme. (Note: You can browse more themes as well)

Now you have to start preparing your presentation.

What parts should be included in the presentation?

The PowerPoint presentations consist of following heads:

• Title Slide
• Introduction
• Body
• Conclusion
• Thank You Slide

Title Slide:

The first Slide of your presentation would always be your title slide. This slide will help in communicating the audience about:

• Your topic of presentation
• About the author
• The date of presentation
• A picture related to your topic (Optional)

Other things that you can add in the first slide is name of your group members if you are going to present in a group (A group can be any number 2 or 3 or 4…), their registration numbers, class, name of instructor, the name or logo of your school, college, university or any institution. Save your presentation with the name Marketing Mix or any other related to your topic.

Introduction Slide:

Introduce your topic, give definition or explain your topic clearly and concisely. Your overall presentation should be in line to your topic, it should not deviate from your topic otherwise you will end up with mess.

The topic of our presentation is Marketing Mix therefore we will define our topic first that what does it mean? For Introduction slide we need a new slide.

How to get a new slide?

At Home go to New Slide button and select the second slide option Title and Content. See the below snapshot:

Body Slides:

In the body of your presentation you can add more supportive text to describe your topic. It can be pictures, bullet points or description. The body part of your presentation can be made up of one or multiple slides depend on the time and the information that you want to communicate to your audience.

As marketing mix is composed of 4P’s product, price, place and promotion, now I will create 4 slides to discuss each component separately with example. For this you can select new slide with Title and content or Two Content Slide format.

What if I have selected one slide format and I want to change it later, can I do so?

Yes, you can change the slide format later on as well. For this you have to go to layout button select another format, it will change but make sure you have to adjust the content according to the format style.

Take example of Product I have added Product definition by Kotler (2010) and have also referenced the source. For examples I have added multiple pictures of products in the slide.

How to add pictures in PowerPoint slide?

Go to Insert tab, click on picture button, browse picture from your laptop or PC and click on insert. The picture will be added on the particular slide on which you want to add. Click on the picture and adjust it accordingly.

Make more slides for Price, Place and Promotion as we have made it for Product.

Conclusion Slide:

In conclusion slide sum up your discussion or write down the important points that you would like to keep in the minds of your audience.

Thank You Slide:

Say Thank you to your audience for the time they have spend in listening to your presentation.

For the complete presentation preview please click on the link below:

http://businesspresentationsforyou.blogspot.com/2015/01/sample-presentation-on-marketing-mix.html