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A neat little psychology trick for quickly laying out messy slides

August 2, 2016 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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This is a guest blog post by Taylor Croonquist. Taylor is the co-founder of Nuts & Bolts Speed Training, a website delivering actionable PowerPoint training and speed strategies, helping professionals cut their build time in half (at least). Prior to Nuts & Bolts, Taylor lived and worked in China for 10 years in finance and consulting. […]

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Filed Under: Design principles, Slide layout Tagged With: chunking, layout, taylor croonquist

Resetting a slide: A quick fix for awful slides

February 16, 2010 by Ellen Finkelstein 5 Comments

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 do […]

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Improve your slide design by trying layout variations

January 21, 2010 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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 know […]

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Filed Under: Misc. PowerPoint Tips, Slide layout Tagged With: Design, layout, PresentationZen

Reapply the Slide Layout

March 20, 2002 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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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 you’re editing […]

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Create a custom layout

February 13, 2002 by Ellen Finkelstein 3 Comments

Layouts help you lay out the components of your slide and PowerPoint comes with many of them. Here’s a sample. Unfortunately, PowerPoint versions before 2007 don’t have a feature to let you create custom layouts that appear in the Layout taskpane. Suppose you’re a sales manager and create lots of comparison slides to train your […]

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