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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marius Delphus" data-source="post: 3085424" data-attributes="member: 447">Oops, can't believe I forgot:9a. Misused fonts. One font is fine. Use a clean, readable font that you know is present on the computer you're going to print from and the computer you're going to present on. Sans serif fonts like Arial are best for onscreen presentations. Really. If you absolutely must mix fonts, use sans serif (like Arial) for the titles and serif (like (blah) Times New Roman) for the body text. (All kinds of bonus point opportunities on this one: (1) use any "display" font, (2) use any "script" font, but especially with ALL CAPS, (3) use more than four distinctly different fonts on every single slide, (4) use a font that gets replaced on the destination computer with a dingbats font, so that when you go to present there are absolutely no letters left on your slides -- just symbols. (Yep: true stories, all.))I should just renumber these and call them my Top 13, I guess. Maybe throw in another one or two for the triskadekaphobes.9b. Squeezed graphics. Yes, if you take the sizing handle on one side of a picture, you can scale it in one dimension without scaling it in the other. This almost always results in a very peculiar-looking graphic that subtracts from the professional look you're (hopefully) trying to achieve. (Bonus points if it's a photo of a widely recognized public figure and it's been squeezed to about 50% of its original width... and stretched to over 100% of its original height. (True story.))3a. Tiny text. If you're dropping below 14 point text just so you can fit everything in, split the slide and give that poor text some air. A related problem is PowerPoint's new "Fit text to placeholder" feature (debuted in XP or 2003 version, I think) that automatically and happily uglifies your slide by dropping your line spacing (anything under .85 needs serious reconsidering). In PowerPoint 2003, go to "Tools > AutoCorrect > Apply as you type" to turn this off. Go now. (Bonus points if the slide titles are this way, too. (True story.))@XCorvis: Thanks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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