60 Sec. PowerPoint ProTip » Using PowerPoint like Word

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This week we’ll be talking about how you can use powerpoint like Microsoft Word for more visual documents.
Word is great for writing papers and essays - however it’s not so great when you need to make documents that are a little more visual, such as a workbook or a guidebook.
Powerpoint, on the other hand is not good for papers and essays, but it’s great at slides - and Powerpoint’s robust templating functionality can make your life really easy when it comes to replicating the same layout across many pages.
So, here’s a tip that you can try the next time you need to create a visual guide of sorts - adjust the page size of a powerpoint document to be a letter-sized document - eight and a half by eleven.
Then, you can build your master slides with appropriate layouts, font sizes and other elements around this page size.
After a bit of work, you’ll end up with a really easy way to replicate the same look and feel on multipage documents that need to be more visual.
In many regards, using PowerPoint in this manner is far easier than using Word for the same thing.
That’s if for this week, subscribe if you’d like to follow along or leave a comment for future powerpoint or presentation issues you’d like to see addressed.
//Keane at Crispy
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[@gfuseau]

Nice! I would really like to know how to align text like in your thumbnails. It is not only justified, it is also adjusted in a way that letters condense to each other, and text is like "paint" that fills a "rectangle". Please look at your "Repeat Action Keyboard Shortcut" thumbnail if you don't get what I mean. Thanks!

[@STORYPitchDecks]

Howdy - essentially all this is is making two text boxes, putting one above the other, aligning their centers and then slightly adjusting the font sizes of each so that the edges of the text line up with one another. it also helps if you use a sans serif font (or a font like what I use for my videos - allerton or league gothic for instance). Hope this helps! Thanks for watching.

[@STORYPitchDecks]

Hey Gaston - I've made a video that answers your question - check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/navcYqWdaJx9rck

[@gfuseau]

Thanks a lot buddy!