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How do you format your slide titles?

March 13, 2023 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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, […]

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Filed Under: Slide layout, Text & fonts Tagged With: format slide titles, formatting slide titles, sentence case, slide title, slide titles, title case, top-justification

Making text stand out with text formatting techniques

August 22, 2021 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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A presentation style that’s sometimes called the Takahashi or Lessig method, involves putting just a word or two on a slide, usually with very large text. The text is used as a prompt, but also as a graphic. I wrote about it in a short post from 2004, You can create stunning slides using large […]

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Filed Under: Shapes & text boxes, Text & fonts Tagged With: Lessig, Takahashi, text, text formatting, text slides

How to create a logo in PowerPoint

January 18, 2020 by Ellen Finkelstein 14 Comments

Would you like to create your own logo, product image, or course symbol in PowerPoint in a few minutes — following some easy steps? If so, you’re in luck, just read on. I’m going to show you how to create this logo — and you can customize it in any way you want. A logo […]

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Filed Under: Images, Shapes & text boxes, Text & fonts Tagged With: arch, create a logo, create a logo in PowerPoint, design your own logo, logo, product image, transform

Import text from Word or Notepad

February 8, 2016 by Ellen Finkelstein 10 Comments

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I recommend writing what you will say in Word first, because it’s easier to focus on your message. In another post, “Organize content with an outline,” I provide some more details. Importing an outline You can import then text from Word or even Notepad (or any text editor) to create a new presentation. This is […]

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Filed Under: Content, Text & fonts Tagged With: Notepad, outline, paste text, PowerPoint, presentations, slides, text, Word

Getting the line spacing just right

January 25, 2016 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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I did a makeover of a slide that included a quotation from the man who discovered the circulatory system. I was SO pleased to get a public domain image of a portrait of him — considering the quote was from 1628! But when I wrote his name and other information below the portrait, the line spacing […]

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