How can you encourage them to make these changes as well? To start building better PowerPoint presentations, let’s turn off AutoFit to improve your opportunities to create more effective, easier to read text slides.įor other time-saving tips, discover more PowerPoint techniques and shortcuts at /PowerPoint. And maybe you’re not the offender–perhaps it’s a colleague or your boss. By changing your AutoFit options, you can make sure AutoFit doesn’t even happen in the first place. Choose OK which changes the AutoFit settings for the current and new PowerPoint presentations.Ĭhanging these settings within your PowerPoint options means you don’t need to remember to make the AutoFit adjustments for each presentation you create. It always sucks to show up to a conference with a slide deck that looks lovely with lots of pictures and evocative hipster stock photography all nicely formatted for a 4:3 ratio (1024x768 pixels is common) and then find out their projectors are 16x9 and run something like 1280x720 pixels. Finally, turn off or uncheck AutoFit title text to the placeholder and AutoFit body text to the placeholder.
For instance, straight quotes changing to smart quotes. This is where you might see some answers to why your text sometimes changes.
And, what would happen if you pick Stop Fitting Text to This Placeholder? This option resets the text back to the defaults that are set within the Slide Master (or your manual formatting) which will likely make it pretty clear that you have way too much information.
Are there ways to streamline the text? How could you share the content more graphically or even in a different format? The solution to simplifying your presentation slide might not just be breaking the text into two different slides.
The AutoFit Options include choices to stop fitting the text, splitting the text between two slides, continuing on a new slide, or changing to two columns.īefore you choose an option on how you want AutoFit to format slides, this is a good time to pause and decide if you actually need that much content. If you have too much text on a slide, the PowerPoint AutoFit Smart Tag pops up in the bottom-left corner of the text placeholder. On that menu, simply check the box for Use Presenter View to turn the option on. It's easy to turn on from the Slide Show menu on PowerPoint's ribbon. Although it might not be very obvious, you can actually work with the AutoFit feature directly from the text. Ultimately, Presenter View keeps the most important slideshow information in front of you while you're presenting.