Presentation Summit 2023: Conversation with Julie Terberg

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      Julie Terberg is a designer, author, instructor, and business owner. Her company, Terberg Design, focuses on crafting presentations, reports, and training materials. With decades of experience in the presentation industry, Julie has trusted partnerships with other presentation professionals and valued clients around the world.

Since 2005, she has been recognized as a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP for her contributions to the presentation community. Julie enjoys teaching others at industry conferences, including the Presentation Summit. She is a LinkedIn Learning instructor and currently developing her next course for the platform. Julie served as a director of the Presentation Guild and cohost of the Inspired by Design webinar series. With Echo Swinford, Julie co-authored the book on templates: Building PowerPoint Templates V2, available on Amazon.

In this conversation, Julie talks about her participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2023, being held on location in Monterey, CA this year from October 15 to 18, 2023, and virtually from November 5 to 8, 2023.

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Geetesh: Julie, you are presenting two sessions this year at the Presentation Summit, in both in-person and virtual formats: The Makeover Mentor and Think Like a Designer. Can you tell prospective attendees what they can expect from these sessions, and what they can do to benefit the most from them?

Julie: During The Makeover Mentor session I’ll share examples of before slides along with the redesigned after slides. Patrons have the opportunity to submit slides for makeover, so send yours in early! During the session, I’ll share the design transformations and explain how and why I made those decisions. We’ll discuss suggestions for further improvements to the examples and share ideas that you can apply to your own presentation designs.

Details matter! Minor improvements have the potential to elevate a design from “acceptable” to “exceptional.” Think Like a Designer is filled with tips for addressing those details and improving your presentation design skills. We’ll look at a variety of slide samples, point out common design fails, and discover ways to fix them.

Geetesh: You work quite a bit with fonts including cloud fonts. What are your thoughts on the new Microsoft fonts such as Aptos?

Julie: Fonts are such an important part of a successful design. It’s a treat to finally have hundreds of fonts to work with in PowerPoint! In 2019, Microsoft introduced a cloud font service, where fonts that are used in a file are automatically downloaded and applied to text. When someone else views the file, any missing cloud fonts are downloaded for them as well. The file renders the same as it was authored, without embedding. The same is true when the file is opened with the PowerPoint mobile app or PowerPoint online. If you’re interested in learning more, see my article and guide: A Guide to Cloud Fonts in Microsoft 365.

Aptos was just introduced as the new default font family for the Microsoft Office suite, replacing the old standard Calibri. Aptos is a clean, sans serif font and I think it works wonderfully for presentations. There are 28 different styles in the Aptos font family, including serif versions that pair nicely with the sans serif faces. It’s a treat to have a professionally designed font as the default in Office. We’re going to be seeing a LOT of Aptos in the coming years.

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