What are PowerPoint icons? Icons are everywhere. From road signs to clothing labels to smartphone apps, these universal symbols transcend language barriers to communicate information quickly and concisely. By demonstrating concepts in a single, instantly recognisable pictogram, icons dispense with extraneous detail and require less cognitive effort from your audience than bullet points or paragraphs…
In our last post we shared some basic formatting tips for your Word documents. This week, we’re going to go a bit more in-depth and look at styles. Styles are sets of text formatting rules that make it quicker and easier to ensure consistency in your documents. If you apply the style Heading 2, for…
A few weeks ago we shared some tips and tricks for improving your PowerPoint presentations and like presentations, Word documents are also an integral part of today’s business world so in this post we outline five formatting tips for Word documents, and how they can help transform your business documents. Why is formatting important? For…
Here at Documents With Precision we like to use high-quality stock photos to bring our presentations and documents to life. Research tells us that the human brain processes images 60,000 faster than it does words. The picture superiority effect says we’re much more likely to recall concepts presented as pictures rather than text. Using strong,…
With an estimated 95% market share, and over 500 million users worldwide, it’s fair to say PowerPoint is still the presentation tool of choice. But how many of those users are really getting the most out of it? And what are the benefits of improving your PowerPoint design skills? Whether it’s a business proposal, sales…
One of the easiest ways to kill a presentation – and your audience’s attention span – is slide after slide of bulleted lists. And while bullet points are often a great way to organise information, it’s actually been proven that they prevent our brains from retaining information properly. A 2010 study called The Use of…