2: Formatting and Modifying Slides

Overview

Researching and gathering the content for your slides is the first step to creating your presentation. Building and formatting your slides to convey information in a meaningful and appealing way is the next step.

In this section, you will

• • copy, cut, and paste text

  • format and modify textboxes, fonts, styles, size, and colour

  • align text and change line spacing

  • promote and demote text

  • add and modify bulleted and numbered lists

  • add and modify WordArt

  • apply themes

Before you begin, complete all of the readings and videos below.

• • Read Importing a Theme or Slides

  • View “Custom Text Boxes in Google Slides”

  • View “Tech Minute - Format painter in Google Docs” - NOTE: While the video gives the example in Docs, painter is actually a feature in Slides and Sheets as well

Instructions

Step 1: Open your Career Connections slideshow.

Step 2: Format and modify the slides in your slideshow. Remember to format the text ensuring the font size, type, and colour is readable:

• • limit the amount of text you include on each slide to 15 words maximum at size 24 minimum by cutting and pasting information to new slides OR to your speaker notes as necessary

  • modify and format text boxes as necessary

  • experiment with bulleted and numbered lists

  • promote and demote text as necessary

  • align text and adjust the line spacing

  • ensure changes save as you go

Step 3: Review the Rubric. The Rubric contains the same criteria that will be used to assess your final project, so getting feedback from your teacher on your Career Connections project will help you in completing your final project.

Step 4: Submit your file to the Formatting & Modifying Slides assignment on Classroom.