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Oh, shit!

Did you see the theme change just there? Seriously, did you?? Oh shit you guys #rekt

#boner

Now that the outline is over with… Isn’t it super annoying how that little

graphic eats into the top part of this slide?

Seriously, look at that thing. Why’s it even there? Is it looking at me?

I feel like it’s looking at me. Did the extra space at the start of the

third bullet point bother anyone else?

Why the Sudden Continuity? Your guess is as good as mine Almost seemed like someone knew what

they were doing here for a second Don’t get too excited though – it’s about

to change again

SEE?

See?

#boner

No hyphens in compound adjectives (i.e. “3 rd party” instead of “third-party” – or at LEAST “3 rd-party”)

Sometimes the sentences have punctuation, like how this one has commas and a period. But sometimes no punctuation is used even though there

could be a benefit to the sentence from it Most importantly, it’s important to switch back and forth

between both styles if at all possible (that was sarcasm)

Why’s there a space between the bullets suddenly?Fine questionThese should each probably be sub-bullet points of

the preceding sentence, BTW

SOME COMMON FORMATTING ERRORS

Slide Transitions & Clipart

Wasn’t that slide transition just the worst?Why’d we even have that?Now, look at this clipartLOOK AT IT

---------- it’s right there Isn’t that ironic? It’s a picture of a guy giving a presentation

In a presentation ABOUT presentations

• …whoaThis adds nothing to the presentation at all

This is Slide 8

This is probably too many slides for your presentation, you guys. I mean, rarely will you need more.

The point is usually to briefly – BRIEFLY – summarize your points and then speak to them.

You should never use the slides as content – they’re meant to supplement the content (i.e. outlining the key takeaways from your speech or framing a discussion).

EXCEPT JK THIS CONTENT RULES NO WORDS NEEDED

Opportunities Period 8 was an unusually expensive period due to a

combination of factors, but balance of 2014 looks good Strict controls are in place to monitor all types of work New weekly reporting, detailed reviews with team,

increased judiciousness with projects

Risks Can only control so much on the emergency side Push for accreditation can result in increased costs

Risk & Opportunity

Wait, What the Fuck?

How did a real work slide get in there?

That wasn’t supposed to happen

I wrote that one, though, so it was at least consistent with the rest of the slides around it

Slide 12

0 Besides the silly theme, this slide is a solid slide

0 Text isn’t overwhelming, chart is relevant to the topic

0 Plenty of white space, easy to interpret

0 I love you, Slide 12

Slide 13• See, this slide is nonsense.• The picture is totally unrelated• We just started using posessive pronouns in our

bullet points, which is inconsistent from before, and there’s even a spelling error

• Besides, things are overlapping each other and the text is way too condensed in this box – I mean, sure, it all FITS on the slide, but is that really the goal here? To just make sure everything “fits” and call it good? Is your goal to have the reader actually READ all of this by the time you move on to the next one? I mean, come on, that’ll be crazy hard with you talking over it. People can’t really process written text alongside of speech…you know that, right? You’re just going to distract your audience with this.

• Also look how distorted that picture is – god, what a mess

• And this sentence is bold and has color?? Now that was just unnecessary

Questions? You shouldn’t need/have a slide for

this

Your audience has been asking questions throughout, and will continue to do so

Send a copy of this out to people for their reference before this meeting – it makes you look like you’re on top of your game

This Slide Intentionally Left Blank

• #boner