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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

Add power to your message with better slide titles

April 18, 2016 by Ellen Finkelstein 6 Comments

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When I work with clients, I sometimes find that their slide titles are boring and even meaningless. We work together to make the slide titles more powerful Use verbs when writing slide titles I recently worked with a client from a Fortune 100 company on a presentation. She needed to make several proposals about how to work […]

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Filed Under: Content Tagged With: headings, slide titles, titles

7 quick fixes to your slides based on my experience with clients

January 24, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 3 Comments

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I see lots of slides that clients create and then ask me to help them make over. There are some problems that I see over and over and I thought I’d tell you about them because avoiding these mistakes will help you improve your slides a lot! 1. Ditch the text boxes! I don’t know […]

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Filed Under: Content, Shapes & text boxes, Slide layout, Text & fonts Tagged With: capitalization, slide layout, slide titles, SmartArt, text boxes, textboxes, uppercase

How to top or bottom align slide titles

November 4, 2013 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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By default, most PowerPoint themes align slide titles midway between the top and the bottom of a text placeholder. I’m talking about vertical alignment, not the more common horizontal alignment, which left-aligns, centers, or right-aligns text. Vertical alignment is not considered as often, but it can be quite important. Here’s the default slide title in […]

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Filed Under: Design principles, Shapes & text boxes, Text & fonts Tagged With: bottom-justify, slide titles, text placeholders, top-justify

How to design more effective slides with the Tell ‘n’ Show(SM) method

November 12, 2003 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

A number of communication experts have recommended slide design as follows: A slide title that makes a complete statement (often suggested to be a complete grammatical sentence) An image that provides evidence of the statement In an article, “Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides,” Michael Alley of the Pennsylvania State College of Engineering discusses the […]

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Filed Under: Content, Design principles Tagged With: PowerPoint, presentations, slide titles, slides, Tell 'n' Show

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