The following Missouri S&T PowerPoint templates have been developed for use by university faculty, staff and students, and are available for download. They have been grouped according to the format type.

To download these templates:

	Windows users (Right click on the corresponding link and save target)
	Mac users (Option click on the corresponding link and save target)

Additional templates, including those in a 16x9-inch format, will be created in the future by the communications office and provided here to the campus community.

Format 1 Silver and Gold (logo on left) Silver and Gold (logo on right)
Format 2 Green (logo on left) Green (logo on right)

There may be times when the Missouri S&T background graphic does not fit with the content of a slide in your presentation. In those cases, you can remove the background graphic from individual slides. Here’s how:
 
1. Open the slide you want to alter.
2. Click on Format>Background.
3. Select Omit background graphics from master.
4. Click Apply and the header image will be removed from the open slide.

Creating effective PowerPoint presentations. We’ve all sat through horrid PowerPoint presentations and know how painful they can be to an audience. Here are some ideas and resources to help you avoid inflicting bad PowerPoint on your audiences.

In his free ebook book Really Bad PowerPoint (and how to avoid it), marketing and presentation guru Seth Godin writes: “The three tasks that most people set out for a PowerPoint are in direct conflict with what a great presentation should do. … When you show up to give a presentation, people want to use both parts of their brain. So they use the right side to judge the way you talk, the way you dress and your body language. Often, people come to a conclusion about your presentation by the time you’re on the second slide. After that, it’s often too late for your bullet points to do you much good.

To help you avoid “death by PowerPoint,” we offer the following five tips from Godin on creating effective PowerPoint slides.

• No more than six words on a slide EVER. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
• No cheesy images. Use professional stock photo images. (If you’re looking for Missouri S&T images, help yourself to some at our online Flickr Photo Library.)
• No dissolves, spins or other transitions.
• Sound effects can be used a few times per presentation, but never use the sound effects that are built into the program.
• Don’t hand out print-outs of your slides. They don’t work without you there.

We would add a sixth recommendation to Godin’s list: Use the PowerPoint template as your title slide only. Getting the university’s name out there is important (that’s why it’s on the title slide) but your audience came to hear your presentation, not a marketing message from Missouri S&T. For effective presentation, keep the rest of your slides blank and background-free.

Free PowerPoint resources. For more information on creating effective PowerPoint, we recommend the following resources:

• Free ebook: Really Bad PowerPoint (and how to avoid it) (PDF), by Seth Godin:
• Slideshare slideshow: Death By PowerPoint, by Alexei Kapterev.
• What Is Good PowerPointDesign?, by presentation designer and author Garr Reynolds.