Almost a year ago, Microsoft announced Copilot to great fanfare. Copilot integrates ChatGPT and AI into Microsoft 365 (Office). Many people are still waiting for it. But I’m pleased to tell you that, as PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional, a Microsoft award), I have had access to it for a few weeks now and I […]
How do you format your slide titles?
When creating a presentation, formatting your slide titles can greatly impact how your audience reads and understands the information presented. Many people default to what’s called “title case,” where each word is capitalized (with some exceptions). However, others prefer “sentence case,” where only the first letter of the first word is capitalized. In this post, […]
3 ways to use images
From my perspective, you can use images on a slide in 3 ways: As a background, behind text: The purpose is to make a slide that is essentially all text look better As a supplement to text: The purpose is to help people understand and remember the text As the main focus of the slide, […]
Use icons to create a list
Research shows that people pay more attention to images than to text, but sometimes you want people to focus on the text, not on an elaborate or complex photo. A nice compromise is to use icons and they are VERY common on slides these days. PowerPoint 365 includes icons in its collection of images (choose […]
3 techniques for putting less text on your slides
You probably know that creating slides with lots of text on them is a sure sign of “Death by PowerPoint.” Even if your content is valuable and interesting, the text makes it LOOK boring. Also, research has shown that images attract more attention. So the solution is almost always to replace text with images and […]