You can even add more explanatory text to make sure the slides stand on their own as you will not be there presenting the information. This means you can actually decrease the text size and use the whole canvas, add more headers and work with spacing and columns to present your bullet points more in a magazine/print layout. A slideument is a slide that is a document and not meant to be presented on the screen.
If you know that you are not going to present your slides and they are actually more of a document (hello all consultants!) to be distributed rather than presented – create a slideument from the start and maybe even add more explanatory text to your bullets to make sure they really stand on their own for the audience reading them. That said, adding an icon to emphasize your bulleted text can make it easier for the audience to take it in – and you can reuse the icons later in your presentation to create a theme throughout your presentation slides. On the other hand, not all icons are easily understood without context and often need a text label. An icon is a simple visual that can fit in small spaces, unlike images that usually needs more space. On one hand they are a great way to add visuals to a slide with lots of text. Icons are great visuals and tricky visuals at the same time. It is still a lot of text on your slides – but at least they are visually separated and it is a little bit easier for the audience to follow along. Make the bullets graphic elements by themselves and work with lines, shapes and spacing to separate the bullet points. If you really have to keep your text and your bullets on one slide – try to “over do” it. You will have more slides – but you are using the spacing more wisely and you are not overloading your audience with all the text st once. Still consider to use some kind of highlight (it is still a lot of text) – or add a title row to make it easier for the audience to see what you want to emphasize. With less text on each slide, the font can be larger.
If you can deviate from your standard template but still need to present the text in all your bullets – consider splitting the text in each bullet into individual slides. Or you can move your bullets all together (but still keep the text intact) – the increased spacing will do the job for you. If you have some space between the bullets – you can even increase the bullet size and tone down the color to make the bullet more like part of the paragraph. Use spacing to give some air between the paragraphs between the bullets to make it easier to separate them. Make sure what you highlight is one or no more than a few words – your text heavy slides will be even harder to read if large chunks of it are highlighted. Use a bold version of your font on the key word or key concept of each paragraph. If you are stuck with a corporate template that uses bullets – you can try to highlight the most important part of your bullet points. Let’s say we have to present this text about the benefits of using a calendar and we have to use all the text as commanded by a very evil and bullet prone boss (who really, really likes planners). These are 10 techniques to use on your slides if you are stuck with the bullets, and a way to minimize the chance your audience will fall asleep… How can you avoid people dying of your bullets? You are forced to work in a template that is only beneficial to infinite bullet slides. There is no time or budget to go back to the drawing board and create a visually stunning presentations. You can’t shorten your content (maybe for legal or other reasons it all has to stay). The problem is as great as bullets are for organizing and structure content, bullets are not in their basic form a very great tool for presenting content, however organized.īut sometimes you are stuck. If you are structuring a to-do list for your next project – you will most likely use bullets as an organizing tool.
It’s somewhat sad as bullets are a great way to organize content and create a structure. The concept of Death by PowerPoint has largely been blamed on the over use of bullets in presentations.
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