Effective Document Setup

It’s common to forget that a PowerPoint presentation is a document, but that it is. So, understanding the elements that can appear on the page, and how a given element may appear under different circumstances (such as on screen or in print), can simplify your work considerably.

In this section, we’ll look at how slide layout and page setup can affect your presentation.

Control the Layout—Don’t Let It Control You

This heading refers to the way that placeholders behave in slide layouts. The idea behind placeholders (such as the title and subtitle placeholders on a title slide) is to provide the size and positioning (and in some cases, the formatting) for slide content so that all you have to do is drop the content into place. ...

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