style


 * Style**

It’s essential that you follow a consistent style in the slides that you create so as to project a profession look and feel to your audience. PowerPoint comes with a tool that let’s you make certain that your style choices (fonts, capitalization, punctuation, etc.) are consistent and visually appealing.

When you’re done a draft of your presentation, click on Tools à Options à Style options (in the Style portion of the options box that appears). This will give you two main sets of choices: Case and End Punctuation and Visual Clarity. Both are quite useful. Case and End punctuation helps insure that you are consistent in your decisions about when to capitalize and punctuate and when not to. Visual Clarity helps you limit the number of fonts you use on each slide, the size of fonts, the number of bullet points on slides, and the length of what follows each bullet point. All of these help control the consistency and symmetry of your slides and make the presentation appear more professional.