With text, less is always more

With text, less is always more

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January 30, 2025

In a presentation, slides are meant to support your talk. Therefore, there’s no need to include more text than necessary, as it will make your audience try to read it while listening to you. You can add a title, but keep the rest of the textual content short and to a bare minimum. Clear headings and short sentences, one for each main takeaway, can be enough. Let the slides “show” while you “tell.”