From the course: Beyond Basic PowerPoint Slides: Adding Visual Variety
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Editing text-heavy slides - PowerPoint Tutorial
From the course: Beyond Basic PowerPoint Slides: Adding Visual Variety
Editing text-heavy slides
- [Instructor] Here's a text heavy slide from H+ sport. This slide features three main subjects: mineral water supplements, and protein bars with supporting texts for each of those subjects. As I mentioned, this is fictitious content. The bulleted text is representative though of a common type of slide that includes headings or main level text along with secondary level text underneath. The biggest point is that there's too much text, and this slide would be best if it were edited or split into multiple slides. Consider splitting a slide when a presenter wants to talk in detail about each subject or heading. It's best to include only one main topic per slide. For starters, we could divide the text into three slides that would allow the presenter to talk about each category of product. Splitting the text on multiple slides focusing on one main topic per slide gives you room to design and add visual variety. You could add photography, maybe a closeup of the product or a happy customer…
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