On the Animations tab, in the Advanced Animations group, click Add Animation to open the menu of animation options. To make the shapes enter with an effect, point to Entrance, and then click an effect. To add an effect (such as a spin effect) to the shapes, point to Emphasis, and then click an effect. To add an effect that makes the shapes leave the slide at some point, point to Exit,. When text does not fit in a text box, PowerPoint enlarges the text box to fit more text. PowerPoint handles overflow text as part of its AutoFit mechanism. How AutoFit works is up to you. If, like me, you do not care for how PowerPoint enlarges text boxes when you enter the text, you can tell PowerPoint not to 'AutoFit' text, but instead to.
MS-PowerPointWhen text does not fit in a text placeholder frame or text box, PowerPoint takes measures to make it fit. In a text frame, PowerPoint shrinks the amount of space between lines and then it shrinks the text itself. When text does not fit in a text box, PowerPoint enlarges the text box to fit more text. PowerPoint handles overflow text as part of its AutoFit mechanism.
How AutoFit works is up to you. If, like me, you do not care for how PowerPoint enlarges text boxes when you enter the text, you can tell PowerPoint not to 'AutoFit' text, but instead to make text boxes large from the get-go. And if you do not care for how PowerPoint shrinks text in placeholder text frames, you can tell PowerPoint not to shrink text. These pages explain how to choose AutoFit options for overflow text in your text frames and text boxes.
Choosing how PowerPoint 'AutoFits' text in text frames
When text does not fit in a text placeholder frame and PowerPoint has to 'AutoFit' the text, you see the AutoFit Options button. Click this button to open a drop-down list with options for handling overflow text, as shown in Figure. The AutoFit options - along with a couple of other techniques, as we explain shortly - represent the 'one at a time' way of handling overflow text. You can also change the default AutoFit options for handling overflow text, as we also explain if you will bear with me a while longer and quit your yawning.
'AutoFitting' the text one frame at a time
When text does not fit in a text placeholder frame, especially a title frame, the first question to ask is, 'Do I want to fool with the integrity of the slide design?' Making the text fit usually means shrinking the text, enlarging the text frame, or compromising the slide design in some way, but audiences notice design inconsistencies. Slides are shown on large screens where design flaws are easy to see.
Making text fit in a text frame usually means making a compromise. Here are different ways to handle the problem of text not fitting in a text frame. Be prepared to click the Undo button when you experiment with these techniques:
Edit the text:
Usually when text does not fit in a frame, the text needs editing. It needs to be made shorter. A slide is not a place for a treatise. Editing the text is the only way to make it fit in the frame without compromising the design.
Enlarge the frame:
Click the AutoFit Options button and choose Stop Fitting Text to This Placeholder on the shortcut menu. Then select the frame and drag the bottom or top selection handle to enlarge it.
Decrease the font size:
Select the text, go to the Home tab, and choose a smaller Font Size measurement. You can also click the Decrease Font Size button to decrease the font size.
Decrease the amount of spacing between lines:
Click the Paragraph group button on the Home tab to open the Paragraph dialog box and decrease the After measurement under Spacing.
Change the frame's internal margins:
Similar to a page, text frames have internal margins to keep text from getting too close to a frame border. By shrinking these margins, you can make more room for text. Right-click the text frame and choose Format Shape. Then, in the Text Box category of the Format Shape dialog box, enter smaller measurements for the Internal Margin boxes.
Create a new slide for the text:
If you are dealing with a list or paragraph text in a body text frame, the AutoFit Options drop-down list offers two ways to create a new slide. Choose Continue on a New Slide to run the text onto another slide, choose Split Text between Two Slides to divide the text evenly between two slides. We do not recommend either option, though. If you need to make a new slide, do it on your own and then rethink how to present the material. Inserting a new slide to accommodate a long list throws a presentation off-track.
The laundry list of AutoFit options.
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Choosing default AutoFit options for text frames
Unless you change the default AutoFit options, PowerPoint shrinks the amount of space between lines and then shrinks the text itself to make text fit in text placeholder frames. Follow these steps if you want to decide for yourself whether PowerPoint 'AutoFits' text in text frames:
- Open the AutoFormat As You Type tab in the AutoCorrect dialog box. Here are the two ways to get there:
- Click the AutoFit Options button and choose Control AutoCorrect Options on the drop-down list.
- Click the Office button and choose PowerPoint Options to open the PowerPoint Options dialog box. In the Proofing category, click the AutoCorrect Options button.
- Deselect the AutoFit Title Text to Placeholder check box to prevent AutoFitting in title text placeholder frames.
- Deselect the AutoFit Body Text to Placeholder check box to prevent Autofitting in text placeholder frames apart from title frames and click OK.
Choosing how PowerPoint 'AutoFits' text in text boxes
PowerPoint offers three options for handling overflow text in text boxes:
Do Not AutoFit:
Does not fit text in the text box but lets text spill out.
Shrink Text on Overflow:
Shrinks the text to make it fit in the text box.
Resize Shape to Fit Text:
Enlarges the text box to make the text fit inside it.
Follow these steps to tell PowerPoint how or whether to fit text in text boxes:
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- Select the text box and Right-click the text box and choose Format Shape. You see the Format Shape dialog box.
- Click the Text Box category.
- Choose an AutoFit option: Do Not AutoFit, Shrink Text on Overflow, or Resize Shape to Fit Text and then click the Close button.
Some people find it easier to dispense with 'AutoFitting.' If you are one of those people, go to the Text Box category of the Format Shape dialog box, and under AutoFit, choose the Do Not AutoFit option or the Shrink Text on Overflow option. To make your AutoFit setting applicable to all the text boxes you create in your presentation, right-click the text box and choose Set As Default Text Box on the shortcut menu.
In this tutorial:
In one of my MBA classes at Concordia University Irvine, Professor McClatchy has recommended a video entitled 'How to avoid death By PowerPoint' to all of us. It was originally a TED Talk by David JP Phillips at TEDxStockholmSalon which changed my understanding of PowerPoint presentations completely.
In this video, Mr. Phillips gives 5 principles to cognitively and psychologically optimize our PowerPoint slides.
- One message per slide, too much information will defocus the message.
- Use the 'Notes' section for explanations instead of putting long paragraphs on the slide. Having the audience to listen to your presentation, not read.
- The most important text or object should be assigned the largest size. For example, slide title/headline should not be in the largest size because it is less important than the content but in a lot of our presentations, the title often draws the attention away because it is the first and the biggest thing that we see on every slide.
- Contrasts are used in two ways to improve the quality of the PowerPoint presentations. I have already talked about the importance of using black/dark backgrounds in my previous articles Changing Backgrounds of PowerPoint Slides Part 1& Part 2. The other contrast resides between the past talking point(s) and the current talking points, which will be covered as this week's topic.
- The magical number is 6, a slide should not carry more than 6 objects/points or the audience will lose focus and cannot retain the message in their memory.
So today, I will teach you how to dim the text after animation. It is a useful feature within PowerPoint to create the contrast between past talking points and the current talking points so that the focus of the audience will always stay with the current talking points. It is easy for them to follow the presentation and to remember the keywords.
Let us first take a look at a slide with all the points listed:
Imaging that I am talking at the same time, you have probably already lost in reading the points and have no idea what point I am talking about at the moment. Even if we add animation to show the points one by one, it may be OK at the first couple of points, when moving to the bottom of the list, the attention will be driven away again.
What we can do is to dim the text after the animation of the past talking point and before the animation of the next talking point, and I would suggest using a darker color for the past talking points instead of hiding the points completely in case the audience wants to review the past talking points :
You can easily follow that I am talking about 'Dim Text After Animation' right now.
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To dim the text after animation, first, we need to apply animation to the points by selecting the text and choose an animation style. I usually use 'Appear' for such texts, simple and effective:
You can apply the same animation style to all the points on the slide and make them appear one by one through clicking. Then, select all the points and open the Animation Pane on the right:
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Right-click the selected object on the Animation Pane to open a drop-down menu and choose the option 'Effect Options...':
On the 'Effect' Tab, there is a field for 'After animation', by default, it is marked as 'Don't Dim', we are going to change it so click on the drop-down arrow and select 'More Colors'.
As you can see, on the first row, a few color options are provided. In this example, the background is black so it is ideal to have the text dim into a color slightly different than black, dark gray would be a good choice:
Once you click the OK button, you have successfully dimed the text after animation for all the points!
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