>Group presentations in school
>Always do the powerpoint myself
>Just type whatever shit everyone else researched in bullet format
>Use basic, decent looking template and simple animations
>Actually look at the powerpoint to make sure it looks good (no dark text on dark backgrounds, etc.)
>mfw I always get compliments on having an awesome powerpoint presentation
I don't know how everyone in my school used powerpoint regularly, yet still so many people sucked at it. Someone putting together a presentation that was actually pleasing to look at was rare.
Common issues include:
>Red text, especially on white background
>Boring layouts, black text with white background and no animation
>Sound effects, unless they are directly relevant to the presentation (either the sound would be off and they couldn't be heard, or the sound would be ear rapingly loud every single time)
>Animating a slide bullet point by bullet point without some sort of finishing cue, like reaching the bottom of the slide or having a picture (I always laugh at the dumbasses who skip to the next slide because they forget how many bullets there are)
>Finding the textured/gradient/pattern backgrounds and making every slide have psychedelic backgrounds
>That one jackass who would always set the animations by letter, so each slide took about 5 minutes to animate
How do people fuck up powerpoint so badly?