Font size for all other text should be at least 24-28 pt.īut more importantly, keep the text on each slide to a minimum!.Font size for titles should be 36-44 pt.Without knowing the exact size and ratio of the screen or the layout of the court/mediation location, here are our recommendations: If slide titles or the company logo shifts position from one slide to the next, you need to meet the Slide Master. How often do we know these variables or have the time to measure them? I know what you're thinking, "Just give me general guidelines for what works best most often." Why is the PowerPoint Slide Master So Important If you’ve ever edited each of a presentation’s 100 slides to change the font size, color, or style, then you need to know about the Slide Master. 16:9 ratio screen distance for viewing font size: Īnother formula is the 8H rule, which calculates the height of the font based on maximum distance and height of the screen.īut let's be real.4:3 ratio screen distance for viewing font size:.Dave Paradi created a formula for font size based on the standard for US road signs, which allows for average eye sight (see links to his tables below). The easy answer is that the minimum font size should be big enough to be easily read from the back of the room. If you want to select a slide in Slide Sorter view, click a slide thumbnail. However, many of the features you can do in Slide Sorter view in PowerPoint you can also do within the slide thumbnails pane in Normal view. You cannot modify the slide content in this view. So, what about the minimum font size? A quick search of the internet will tell you the minimum size is anywhere from 18 to 36 pt. In Slide Sorter view, all the presentation slides appear as thumbnails. Not to mention other factors, such as bold, italics and background colors. To make things even more complicated, not all fonts are the same size! For example, Arial is larger than Times New Roman. The best choice for font size should depend on the size and ratio of the monitor you are presenting with and its distance from the viewer. Reference to Office Support Page where this solution was first posted.Unfortunately, there isn't a simple answer to this common question (however, see our recommendations at the end). Repeat the Process in the second Presentation to link back to your main presentation.Back in the Ye Olde Days of PowerPoint, it was your only choice. In the 4:3 aspect ratio, the dimensions are 1024 x 768 pixels (10.67 x 8) the height is 3/4 of the width. Any slide that isn't empty should appear in the "Hyperlink to Slide" dialog box The above notation is called the aspect ratio, or the ratio of the width to the height of the slide.However, when it comes to PowerPoint slides, these can only be created either in a 4:3 aspect ratio (known as the standard size slide) or a 16:9 aspect ratio (known as the widescreen slide size). Select the slide that you want to link to. There are multiple different aspect ratios that exist.
If you need to change the slide size to the former standard (4:3), or even a custom size that you might need for an academic poster or presentation, follow the instructions below or in the video above.
Although you cannot use different sized slides in one PowerPoint file, for the actual presentation you can link several different files together to create a presentation that has different slide sizes.
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