How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint and Create Awesome Slides that Support Learning By Ellen Finkelstein Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (1 of 14 in the United States) www.ChangetheWorldMarketing.com © Ellen Finkelstein, Inc.

Bonuses! 4 layouts that always look good Easy text & image layouts 4 animation templates

Content: Your message, its organization, your choice of words

Use contrast to focus attention When you put text over a picture, you need to make sure it’s legible. For this slide, I inserted a rectangle, put it behind the placeholder, and formatted it with a transparency gradent, all white, so that the color behind the text was solid but blended into the photo.

Content: Message, organization, words

Content: Your message, its organization, your choice of words This slide uses the Title and Lower-Right Photo layout. You can adjust the size of the picture placeholder to suit the photo. If the photo’s background doesn’t match that of the slide, remove the photo’s background, so there’s no “box” around the photo.

Just replace the text and image for infinite variations To replace the image, right-click and choose Change Picture Just replace the text and image for infinite variations 4 layouts that always look good Easy text & image layouts 4 animation templates And a 4th item

Just replace the text and image for infinite variations To replace the image, right-click and choose Change Picture 4 layouts that always look good Easy text & image layouts 4 animation templates

Just replace the text and image for infinite variations To replace the image, right-click and choose Change Picture 4 layouts that always look good Easy text & image layouts 4 animation templates

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When an image moves, people pay attention! Made you look! When an image moves, people pay attention!

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