How to fit large amount of text on a question (polling) slide

Modified on Fri, 16 Sep 2016 at 04:39 PM

Sometimes you need to fit a lot of text in the Question Text area. Other times your question has a a few long answers that just don't seem to fit the slide, the vote counter, and the chart/graph...


Here's what we've seen done and recommend doing in such cases.


Revise & Reduce

You know that quote from Mark Twain: “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Don't be that guy/gal. 

PowerPoint should only be your background. People won't read large amount of text. It has to make sense to them in a few seconds, so be short and make it clear.


Use Two Slides

If you absolutely have to have a lot of text to explain everything that pertains to your question (e.g. a medical case study), then make sure that you use a non-polling slide to 'lead into' the polling one and give your audience the best information possible to make a good decision/vote on the next slide - the actual polling slide.


NON-POLLING SLIDE

POLLING SLIDE




Notice how much longer the Question Text and the answers are on the 'lead-in' slide
On the polling slide, the goal is to only fit the most important text


Change Chart Type

When one type of chart takes up a lot of space, or it simply doesn't work with the amount of text you're trying to fit on a slide, choose another one. After all, you do have 8 of them to choose from.


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