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Aligning and distributing items in PowerPoint

Aligning and distributing items in PowerPoint

From the course: Presentation Tips

Aligning and distributing items in PowerPoint

- [Instructor] I'm Jole Simmons, AKA the Presentation Guy. Hello, and welcome to Presentation Tips Weekly. So this week, we're going to take a look at alignment and distribution. Now, this is a pretty basic principle, but it's one that sometimes you may overlook when designing your slides. Making sure objects are aligned properly can make all the difference in the world towards making your slides look professional and polished. So have you ever found yourself looking at a slide, and you just can't quite figure out what's not right? Maybe a text box is kind of off to the side, or things look a little bit jumbled? Sometimes I find myself focusing more on that than the actual content on the slide, which is not good. So one of my most-used favorite layouts is the old three-box layout, I use it all the time. I find it works really well when there's a three-bullet slide and I want to go from bullets to something a little bit more engaging. So this slide, you know, it looks pretty good…

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