Screenshot of blank PowerPoint slide with default guides, two lines one horizontal and one vertical across the slide
…And won’t help you much. Setting custom guides phone numbers in taiwan in PowerPoint used to be a pain in the proverbial but thanks to BrightSlide it’s now pretty simple. Go to the BrightSlide tab, select Guides, then Create Guides. Choose whether you want to add the guides to the Master, Layout or Slide view – I’d recommend Master or Layout as with slide view you can easily accidentally move the guides when you’re editing slides and mess them up. Then use the BrightSlide guides pop up to create your guides, check you’re happy with the live preview, and select OK. If you’re not sure what to go with, a three by three grid is pretty standard and will help you whip up balanced slides in seconds.
Screenshot of PowerPoint slide build on 3 row 3 column grid made with BrightSlide
When you’ve got your guides set up, you can use BrightSlide’s Align to Guides alignment mode to snap objects to your guides. You can also Alt-click the alignment tools anywhere in PowerPoint for Align to Guides. Then repeatedly click the selected align option to shuffle through the guides. Add Shift to shuffle through the guides in the opposite direction. Sorted!
Screenshot of Align to Guides BrightSlide Alignment mode in PowerPoint
Stop using poor colour contrast
The bottom line is that poor colour contrast makes your slides less accessible. Though colour contrast is one of the easiest things to fix in terms of improving accessibility, it’s often overlooked. You can learn more about common colour contrast issues here, but BrightSlide has two built-in tools to help you tackle them. The first is the Colour Contrast Report. Go to the BrightSlide tab and under File & Master select Colour Contrast Report. BrightSlide will generate something like this: