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Designing bullet point alternatives

Designing bullet point alternatives

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Designing bullet point alternatives

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- [Instructor] Sometimes, you might find that you have a presentation where bullet points are necessary and valid to use for your content. But that title and content slide layout, using it over and over again is getting a bit stale and repetitive. Or maybe you are simply presenting to an audience that hates bullets or text-heavy slides and you need to find alternative ways to structure the information. Well, there are several ways to redesign or rethink the structure of bullet points. The first we'll talk about is chunking. So what is chunking? Chunking, simply put, is where you take something that is long and break it up and organize it into smaller, bite-sized pieces. And this is nothing new or specific to slide design. Chunking has its roots in document design, as well as web design. But let's take a look and see how chunking can work for a simple bulleted list in PowerPoint. Now, we are all familiar with this…

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