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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / September 2006When "Do you use sentence case" or "Title Case" bullets in PP
Debate internally finding the proper style for Power Points. Basically, "Verbal Thought" or "Verbal sentence of actionable item" is how one learned. Initial caps for the first bullet, regardless of lenght or lack thereof was how another was taught. Another was taught three or less words all caps, more words, sentence case. Another was taught 1/2 page width was Title case, the rest sentence case Another was taught lower case all Unless a bonafied title. OK... What's the popular thought in cyberland? I use Sentence case when it is NOT a proper title (regardless of the number of words). I NEVER use all lower caps or all UPPER CAPS. But then again, I'm not an English major, just a geek!  SignatureBill Foley Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor www.pttinc.com > Debate internally finding the proper style for Power Points. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > OK... What's the popular thought in cyberland? The way I see it, what's most important is not what is proper, but what makes the slide easiest to look at (poor grammar, I know). Initial caps for each word creates what I call noise - extra stuff on the slide. I often avoid all caps, but there are times when it works...Iwell. I have acutally used all lower case, too. It was the personality that the presenter wanted to convey (confidentially understated) - and it was very appropriate in how we used it... SignatureSandy Johnson Microsoft Certified Office Specialist (MOS PowerPoint) > Debate internally finding the proper style for Power Points. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > OK... What's the popular thought in cyberland? Initial caps also makes everything seem important when it may not be. Plus it takes up more space with some fonts. I've used lower case to get rid of initial caps. SignatureLinda Adams http://www.hackman-adams.com http://www.david-hedison.com > The way I see it, what's most important is not what is proper, but what makes > the slide easiest to look at (poor grammar, I know). Initial caps for each [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > > > OK... What's the popular thought in cyberland? > Initial caps also makes everything seem important when it may not be. Plus > it takes up more space with some fonts. I've used lower case to get rid of > initial caps. Yes. And it makes it impossible to distinguish words that should have initial caps from those which simply inherited them because we happen to be using kangaroo casing for the titles. This Is A New Product vs This is a New Product If you're selling New Product, which would you rather see? ;-) ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Better option, instead of bullet points, use ideas. Graphic ideas, or simple word phrases, not sentences. Where possible use graphic representations that directly address the idea. However, there are times where bullets are the only way that you can go. Personally, I favor 'sentence case' when these are required (with the exception of proper titles, of course). SignatureBill Dilworth A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team Users helping fellow users. http://billdilworth.mvps.org -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages. yahoo. They answer most of our questions. com www.pptfaq.com . > Debate internally finding the proper style for Power Points. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > OK... What's the popular thought in cyberland? Agree. SignatureSandy Johnson Microsoft Certified Office Specialist (MOS PowerPoint) > Better option, instead of bullet points, use ideas. Graphic ideas, or > simple word phrases, not sentences. [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > > > OK... What's the popular thought in cyberland? Sentence case. I really dislike Title Case, for the reasons the others already mentioned. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ > Debate internally finding the proper style for Power Points. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > OK... What's the popular thought in cyberland? |
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