Footnotes and page numbers are the most most common elements to apply a Disappear With Previous animation, but there are other things on your slides that you might want only to appear in a print deck and not on screen.
Remember, there is just so much text that can be processed and read when presenting on screen.
So, let’s say you have a slide with three bullet points, each with 3 sub bullet points that you may not be specifically talking to when presenting, but that you would like to be in your printed handouts.
Create individual text boxes for each bullet and for each set of sub bullets. Then apply a Disappear With Previous animation to each of the sub bullet boxes. The result is that your audience will only see the large primary bullets on screen and you still have your visible talking points. The less important (and much harder to read) sub bullets in their smaller font size, will only appear in the printed deck.
If you are creative, and if you can lay out your slides appropriately, you can use this technique to keep your on screen show cleaner and easier to read.
What else truly doesn’t need to be viewed in screen?
- Logo bugs?
- Legal disclaimer?
- Copyright notice?
- Sub heading?
- “FPO” notations?
