In a workshop last week, I was discussing use of the notes section in PowerPoint. Once you have your outline of your talk, type in what you’d want to say in the notes section. We were doing an exercise with sticky notes and walking through the steps to move from sticky notes to create slides. Rather than type on the slide, start in the notes. This way, all those bullet points you would have put on the slide go in the notes and your slide is saved from the bullet points. So is your audience.

One participant of the workshop commented that by forcing oneself to START in the notes section, it left the opportunity to think about how to visualize the point up on the slide.

Try it! Did it work for you?