Do NOT add these graphics to each individual slide! PowerPoint slide with graphic elements / shapes added in to each slide to create own design ( bad practice) If you want to use coloured background and graphic items to make your slide theme more aesthetic. Much more efficient! More on this further down the blog. This in turn will update all titles throughout the presentation. Why not consider using the slide templates which PowerPoint provide? If title fonts, sizes or colours need changed, it can be done in the master slide. What if you want to change the colour or size of text? In order to be consistent, you need to select all those text boxes and change the content. Example of a blank PowerPoint slide with inserted text boxes ( not good practice)īuilding your own slides from scratch and adding in content takes a lot of time and effort. This includes the sequence of text boxes, alignment of content, aesthetics and digital accessibility, etc. There’s many issues with ‘building your own’ slides. Secondly, don’t use your slides as blank pages and insert text boxes everywhere. This looks fresher and it gives you more space to place your content! To change slide size, go to the Design tab, click on Slide Design and choose 16:9 ( wide screen). This shows that slides can be from an older content iteration and it feels out-of-date. The example above left ( 4:3) is more square in proportion and does not fit the scale of today’s screens. This is in terms of design, user experience and digital accessibility.įirstly, we’d like to advise that all PowerPoint slides should be a 16:9 ( wide screen) ratio ( as illustrated below): PowerPoint example of 4:3 and 16:9 sized slides.

We see many examples of PowerPoint slides coming through and have seen a lot of practices which could be improved upon. Let’s get started! How NOT to build a PowerPoint This week, we continue with some practices in PowerPoint and how to improve them in relation to Slide Design and Custom Templates. Can you believe it’s Monday again? We hope you enjoyed last weeks blog post on Aligning Content in MS PowerPoint.

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