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, […]
Add power to your message with better slide titles
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 […]
7 quick fixes to your slides based on my experience with clients
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 […]
How to top or bottom align slide titles
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 […]
How to design more effective slides with the Tell ‘n’ Show(SM) method
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 […]
