After an email exchange with a health corporation in NYC, and the request to help them “clean-up” a presentation, I said, “Just call me the maid-service for PowerPoints… sweeping and cleaning them up.” And that’s a lot of what I do on a daily basis for presentations. Cleaning them up.
A lot of times a template has been created for a company and then all of the past presentations need to be placed within that new template. Sometimes easier said then done. Lots of small elements can shift and change, colors to be adjusted, fonts to be matched and animations to sync up. Sometimes it can take longer to “clean-up” a presentation than it is to create one!!
Then, once you’ve cleaned it up, you notice that the old charts do not look as nice, so maybe those should be refreshed or redone. And that can open a whole can of worms right there. Cleaning up a PowerPoint presentation is a fun challenge. For me, it comes down to this: how can I shine this up? What will make this more exciting or appealing, but realizing, I cannot change the content, I cannot change the amount of pages (but come on, it has 90 pages!!), but I can change the template and the look and feel… wheee… good times! Just call me the maid-service provider for your PowerPoint. At your service.
Oh! And some exciting news. There is an annual Presentation Summit that takes place so that you can learn and be taught more about your PowerPoint presentations. This year it is in San Diego, my old stomping grounds. Maybe I will see you there!
