Everyone is making PowerPoint presentations anymore and some are pretty good. Others, however, have some major issues.

Recently Bill Gates gave a presentation that was done in PowerPoint and he’s a great example of what not to do. That is, unless you want a bad presentation.

Here is what to do to have a bad PowerPoint presentation.

• Use a busy background. Who cares if half the room can’t read the text?
• Don’t show the company logo. It’s not about re-enforcing the brand.
• Clip art rocks! Use as much as possible!
• Use text that blend into the background. Just because no one can read it doesn’t mean you can’t do it.
• Use white text on light colors. Again, readability isn’t important. Especially for those who are more than ten feet from the presentation.
• Don’t vertically align you category titles (Products Technologies). That’d just look to professional.
• Put as much information on one slide as possible. More slides, that are easier to understand is to much work for the presenter.

Those are just a few tips for making your bad PowerPoint presentation. Now you can be as cool as the richest man alive, Bill Gates.

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