templates

Templates are a good starting point for presentations. They guide you in the sense that they provide consistent font styles and sizes that user are able to read.

While being helpful at first, they are also a bad thing:

• Most of them are recommend to use bullet points.
• Most of them mislead the user into putting a lot of text on the slide and not to focus on major aspects/ one aspect per slide.
• Most of them mislead the user into using colorful/ fancy backgrounds which as a result leads to unreadable slides
• I have seen templates where the background was even animated. While it might make your presentation more interesting at first, the movement distracts the audience from your talk. Thus, you are adding something to your slides that makes your own presentation worse.

Some companies tend to place their logo and sometimes even more on every slide. That reduces the space for your own content.

In my opinion, it is much better to use images to spread the message and give a handout to your audience if you want to provide more detailed information.This helps them to understand your objective without having to present every minor detail.