Hi.
During the first video of this section we will cover a very important topic spacing within PowerPoint
slides a PowerPoint presentation needs to be as clear and as organized as possible.
The logical flow of information should occur at a number of levels in your slides.
The first one of them being the initial formatting what you want to have is a clear structure which
remains consistent throughout the entire presentation.
If you set up your page in the following way A TITLE ON THE TOP AND CONTENT respecting certain borders
as shown here the readers or viewers of your presentation will expect you to respect these alignments
in all of your slides.
So the first point that we'd like to stress out is the following You have to be consistent with the
format of your presentation.
This is very important.
It is crucial to create a good structure.
Firstly you want to make sure that you leave some unused space like we have done in this slide here.
Do not fill the whole slide with content as it renders it too complex and cluttered.
See how this slide is suffocating from content.
It is better to leave some unmarked space around the visual elements as well.
Usually you want to leave a good amount of space between the title and the slides content.
As shown here making good use of free space makes it easy for your audience to organize the information
being presented in their mind and it helps them to comprehend it faster.
Grid lines can be a useful tool which allow us to get a better idea of spacing in order to find it.
We have to go to the view tab.
Here we can click on grid lines and all of these grid lines to which we can align objects in the document
will appear.
Grid lines can be quite useful in situations when we want to gain an idea of whether spacing is equally
distant to the left and to the right.
Each of these tiny dots can be used in order to enhance your precision.
The last thing that we'll discuss in this lesson is slide layout.
It can be quite difficult for someone who has less experience until he figures out how to organize the
content that he has to present.
Typically the content of slides in corporate presentations is organized in the following formats full
page the whole slide represents one page horizontal half page.
The slide is divided into two parts.
Readers would read it in the following order
vertical half page.
The slide is divided into two parts and very often the right page contains text which serves as description
of the content standing on the left quarter page of very popular format often used in order to save
space.
Typically we would see either four separate pages with content as we have here or two pages with content
on the left and two pages containing text description on the right one sixth of a page a format that
is often used in order to show a series of charts.
This was our lesson covering the initial structure and types of slides that we are likely to see in
a PowerPoint presentation.
Next we will learn how to save a lot of time by using shortcut combinations within PowerPoint.
Thanks for watching.