How do you control font appearance with bullets?

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CyberCafe

I just finished editing an entirely text presentation using PowerPoint
2000. Each slide is basically bulleted text (in some places multilevel
bullets). Some slides have very little bulleted text and other slides
are just crammed with bulleted text. The customer doesn't want the
slides that are filled with tons of text separated into individual slides.

The end result is a lot of variation in font size and boldness in each
slide. The font size difference looks okay, but the difference in text
darkness/boldness from one slide to the next is very noticeably and
unattractive. In other words, some of the text looks like it is bold
while other text looks normal. Is there some way to fix this so all the
text is consistent in darkness?

Barb
 
Hi,

You can:

A) Change the font to one that's more consistent in appearance no matter the
size:
Click on Format, Replace Fonts
or
B) Turn off AutoFit and size the text manually:
Click Tools, AutoCorrect Options, AutoFormat As You type, uncheck AutoFit
body text to placeholder
or
C) Convice your customer it's never a good idea to have too much text on a
slide. I like Austin Meyer's 5X5 rule; no more than 5 lines of text with 5
words per line.

Glenna
 
PPTMagician said:
Hi,

You can:

A) Change the font to one that's more consistent in appearance no matter the
size:
Click on Format, Replace Fonts
or
B) Turn off AutoFit and size the text manually:
Click Tools, AutoCorrect Options, AutoFormat As You type, uncheck AutoFit
body text to placeholder
or
C) Convice your customer it's never a good idea to have too much text on a
slide. I like Austin Meyer's 5X5 rule; no more than 5 lines of text with 5
words per line.

Thanks for the advice. I'll try your suggestions. They used Arial
(regular) on the draft ppt. Have a suggestion for a better font?

Yes, they have way too many lines of text per slide. Many of the
bulleted items wrap for several lines too.

Barb
 

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