Here
are 3 reason why it's not usually a good idea to use your PowerPoint slides as
handouts to your audience:
1. In order to make the handouts readable, you have to print no more than 2 to a page – which is a lot of ink, paper and expense to print.
2.
Your slides should not contain all your information so using
slides as handouts won't make much sense without your voiceover. (If
your slides do contain all your information, then why do we need you? You could
just send everyone your slides to read themselves).
3.
If you hand out all the slides, people tend to skip ahead which can interfere
with the order in which you want to reveal information.
Instead,
if you want to have a handout, here are some options for creating one that is
separate from your slides:
- Include key ideas, tips or frequently asked questions.
- Make it a worksheet that they can fill in.
- Leave plenty of white space for them to write their own notes as they listen to yourc presentation.
- Add your contact info on every page so they can contact you after the presentation if they’d like more information.