PowerPoint Ninja/Chapter 8

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Working with text and tables

Text boxes Space before and after paragraphs

Effective use of bullets

Effective use of the ruler and guides and tab stops Spaces around the text in the text box Anchor point for text

Establishing the autoshape defaults and the default text for inside text boxes

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Charting success

Turn off true type font scaling Data label generating 2 d at all times

Drawing on top of charts Manual data labels and lines

Exploding pie charts out Waterfall charts how to work with the box – how to resize a graph object and have it not distort turning off the box and the other annoying things on a graph How to change color of just one bar on a chart for effect Scales on charts

Use of legends

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Content from other sources

Working with graphic or other content sources Introduction, beliefs, drawing on top of content Cropping etc – philosophy in beliefs Working with acrobat content Working with logos Working with screenshots – get it to the right size and then hit it Working with excel content (spreadsheet content and chart objects where better sophistication in excel for charting) Working with Word content Working with scanned content Importing slides from another presentation Drawing on top of objec

Working with tables Creating Background colors Fonts, alignment When to use text boxes and when to use a table

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Working over someone else’s work

Working over someone else’s work

Quickly review all pages Start with the slide master Establish a grid Click through pages against the grid Then need to reapply the style for the slide Alignment Replace fonts throughout Fix each chart – consider creating one chart object and then copying it and replacing the data rather than fixing all of the chart – copy the datasheet Do not use the titling in the chart object

When to use other applications to first massage data that you then need to use – or to transpose a table etc

Part III – How to create an organizational style guide
Part IV – Templates
Appendix 1 – Glossary

Align Autoshape Background elements Cover page Grid Key message Master slide Snap to Grid Table of contents Template Toolbar

Caution about speaking skills and too much attention on the slides – how many of the great speeches an history and the great communicators of today, use powerpoint slides? Ie how many are shackled to a point and click pack