I see lots of bad slides! One thing that I notice is that people ignore PowerPoint’s layouts. Please don’t!
Layouts provide a framework for your slides so that they are all consistent:
Fonts Font sizes Colors Title placement Image and text placement How do I choose a layout?
Let PowerPoint’s layouts do the heavy [...]
I’m pleased to report that my presentation, partnered with PresentationXpert, has been published on SlideRocket, in their Presentations and Webinars Showcase. It’s the top-left presentation on the page.
The presentation is a short take on how people who feel “artistically challenged” can nevertheless design clear and professional-looking slides.
In the presentation, I tell the [...]
Sales reps can use PowerPoint to create a product catalog that they bring to potential customers. This catalog is easy to modify, even at the last minute. You can change photos, prices, descriptions, and so on.
From the point of view of the Sales Manager, PowerPoint product catalogs ensure that the catalog always looks [...]
Do you have to fix up slides that other people made a mess of? I do. For some reason, I get a lot of slides on which people ignored the Layout feature of PowerPoint; instead, they inserted text boxes anywhere on the slide—in a different location on each slide!
Often, the first thing I [...]
In my “Create an Outstanding Presentation” workshops and self-study course, I teach four layouts that always look good. I taught them again recently in a presentation skills class for college students.
I find that many presenters who create their own slides struggle with slide design. Not being artists, their efforts are clunky. They usually [...]
Slide numbers are like page numbers. They show the number of the current slide. Slide numbers are easy to add, but they can be frustrating, as well. Sometimes they just don’t appear! In this tip, I’ll show you how to insert page numbers and also give you some troubleshooting techniques.
Slide numbers can be [...]
About a year ago, I wrote an article for “Presentations” magazine titled “A PowerPoint world without bullets is possible, and beautiful as well” The point of the article was to discuss how you can present ideas graphically, without using bulleted text.
Recently, I’ve been thinking about going beyond “beyond bullets,” to beyond words. Some [...]
Have you ever seen a presentation in which the text was jumping around from slide to slide? On each slide, the title and text were in a slightly different location. It made your eyes hurt, didn’t it?
Or maybe the presentation’s titles used several different fonts or font sizes. Looked chaotic, yes?
When [...]
Certain effects require that you put objects one on top of the other. For example, to create my quiz game, you need to put AutoShapes exactly in the same place, one on top of the other. You might also want to use transparency to blend two objects that are in the same place.
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Are you frustrated when you try to move an object on a slide just a little bit? Objects on a slide snap to a grid, but maybe you find it difficult to move them the small amount needed. Here are some techniques:
Choose Draw>Nudge on the Drawing toolbar, then choose Up, Down, Left [...]
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