You can simply make the text bold and increase the font size a bit. It’s not necessary, however, to give a different background color to the row. What is the data in rows and columns about? The header row needs to be highlighted to help in easy reading of data. Well, it appears a lot of ants crawling on a white sea. Here’s how the table now looks without any makeup: Don’t for the “Medium” and “Dark” designs as the table looks heavy and the color distracts audience from getting the message. If you ever do wish to experiment with the table styles provided in PowerPoint, choose the ones under “Light” category. Don’t go for the Table Grid option just below that as it is (duh) boring to death. So, select your table, go to the Design tab and in the Table Styles group, click the More button (see the screenshot below):Ĭhoose the “No Style No Grid” option (see the screenshot for reference):Īll the formatting is erased with the click of a button. Already, there is too much data to read and understand on top of that heavy designing only adds to the cognitive overload and eye strain. But as we said before, you need not decorate your tables with colors and borders. If you have invested a lot of time in formatting your tables, we are sorry to play the spoilsport. Steps to Polish a Dull Table in PowerPoint: Let us work on this table step by step and transform it into a crisp table like the one below:
Let’s work on this boring table (a recreation of what I came across in one of the presentations) and fix it step by step:Įye strain apart in reading the numbers, the table is nothing but loosely assembled information? There’s no story, no pattern that can be deciphered without going through each row (horizontal cells) and columns (vertical cells). Many of you won’t be guilty of making some of the blunders that you’ll see below but some of the tips will help you create a stunning table for your next presentation. In the excitement to be creative, many presenters turn an okay table into a horrible one.Ĭompelled by an ugly table and inspired by a professional one, I am sharing 9 quick steps to turn a shabby table into a crisp one. ” No! Fancy decoration has no place on a slide showing a table of numbers.
Some presenters, however, get a little excited while designing presentations. It’s not attention-grabbing but it’s not appalling too. A table, undisputedly, is an effectively way to show the numbers without much fuss. Numbers are the most important facts that investors and decision makers are looking for in a presentation slide. Ugly formatting, numbers crawling all over the slide, and haphazard structure are some obvious reasons that have given a Table (otherwise an orderly structure of rows and columns) a bad name in the PowerPoint and presentation world.įirst of all, let us face the fact that tables are here to stay.
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