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Sigh! Although I write about communicating in a visual manner all the time (see 5 Steps to Slide Design for Non-Designers, for example), sometimes it becomes clear that certain presenters will never get there. I’m working with the organizer of a conference for physicians. The organizer has asked them all to use PowerPoint, [...] Sometimes you want to discuss a small section of text, but first show it in the context of its entire paragraph. This is a great way to introduce quotes. For example, in this quote, you may want to discuss the phrase, “Our own brain, our own heart is our temple.” But it’s a [...] Solomon Schneider, a faculty member at Sam Houston State University, in Huntsville, Texas, sent me some guidelines for choosing fonts and color to get the highest text legibility. Color Medium-colored text + medium-colored background = low legibility. To obtain the best legibility, choose either a very light font on a very dark background [...] A subscriber asked me to write up some text animation techniques, so here are two that you might like to use. These work best when the text plays center screen and your slide doesn’t contain too much else. You wouldn’t use these techniques a lot, or with too much text. Fade in variations [...] Sometimes, you just have too much information to display on a slide, but you don’t need all of it there at one time. An interesting use of the Hide on Next Mouse Click feature, one of the After Animation options, is to display text, hide it, and then display new text in the same [...] Do you sometimes find that text looks too high or low in its box? too low? You can change the vertical text placement. Choose Format>Text Box (or AutoShape). Click the Text Box tab and choose an option from the Text Alignment drop-down list. Here I chose Middle. middle alignment Do the [...] How much time do you spend trying to fit text into a placeholder or AutoShape? One option is to reduce the font size or try a different font that takes up less room. But sometimes, you want consistency of font and font size and don’t have room to expand the placeholder or AutoShape. [...] You have great control over object shadows. You can change their color, length, and direction. If you’re not familiar with the Shadow controls, create any drawing object and click Shadow Style > Shadow Settings on the Drawing toolbar. The Shadow Settings toolbar opens. Have fun playing around with the settings! However, no such [...] |
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