Professional Formatting Tips in PowerPoint
Presenters University is an excellent site that collects tips, tricks, templates, clip art and other useful content geared towards effective presentations. Microsoft PowerPoint, the ubiquitous presentation delivery tool, is featured, but they also have sections for Apple’s KeyNote and Corel Draw.
One of the new articles added in October is by Troy Chollar of TLC Creative Services. Troy provides 13 tips for professional formatting in PowerPoint, based on his experience and work at his company. Here are a couple of highlights:
- Turn off SNAP OBJECTS TO GRID and SNAP OBJECTS TO OTHER OBJECTS.
- Use the Slide Layout task pane
- Use the Align and Distribute tools in the Draw menu
- Troy offers 2 public tools – PowerPoint add-ins from the PPTxtreme tool set – that help align and format multiple objects between slides. [I was not familiar with these add-ins and they look like they will be very useful]
- Consistent layout of similar objects across multiple slides
- Add shadows, rounded corners and/or beveled edges to inserted photos in a presentation
This article is a great refresher for those that have been putting together PowerPoint presentations for a while, and a great place to go after learning the basics of PowerPoint for the not-so-experienced. I encourage you to check it out.
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