The world's worst PowerPoint presentations

What not to do with your business presentation

  • Images and text do not mix
  • To be fair, social networking is complicated
  • A symmetrical rainbow of confusion
  • Flow chart on steroids
  • The endless
  • 100 graphs in one little slide
  • Slides with ads, are they clickable?
  • The case of the invisible text
  • Bad bullet points
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Bad bullet points

In a PowerPoint presentation, reducing paragraphs to bullet points helps your audience follow the presentation more easily. But "reducing paragraphs to bullet points" doesn't mean sticking bullet-point icons in front of paragraphs.

As a rule of thumb, if you have to resize your text to 12- or 10-point type to get it to fit, you have too much text. This presentation on social media is a great example of bullet points gone bad. The text is tiny, the bullet points are longer than ten words each, and at least one of them is a full-fledged paragraph.

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