Present Lite offers a range of formatting options, helping you to customize the general appearance of your presentation using themes, improve the professional layout of your content items using the layout tools, and use AI to calculate the best layout for your slides using Auto Layout.
These tools provide an opportunity for designers to ensure that their presentations look professional and coherent and to make use of styling to draw attention to important information, make sure content items are legible, and so on.
Important: Consider who will see your presentation and what information they want to know; the answers to these questions will guide you in your formatting and design decisions.
Presentation formatting
Themes
You can select a "theme" to apply a consistent style across your presentation. Themes dictate the common color palette and formatting options used across your slides. They control the layout of your presentation's slides and cover, dictating whether there are headers and footers on every page, adding branding images to every page, and so on.
- For more information, see Themes in Present Lite
Layout tools
You can use the layout tools to automatically "snap" items to your grid when you add them to your presentations, align and distribute items relative to the canvas or to one another, and group individual items that you want to manage as if they were a single item. These tools help you to professionalize the appearance of your slides.
- For more information, see Layout tools in Present Lite
Auto layout
You can select an auto layout template to optimize the layout of the content items on each slide. The Auto layout feature uses an AI engine to rearrange the content items on the canvas using a selected template. This optimizes the placement of content items, while ensuring consistent spacing between items. The auto layout feature provides several templates to choose from, based on the types and quantities of content items on the canvas.
- For more information, see Auto Layout in Present Lite
Content item formatting
The preceding topics all talk about tools and functions that apply designs or help you to apply formatting rules across your presentation. It is, however, important to remember that design and formatting also apply at the individual content item level. You can resize and rotate items on the canvas, decide whether to include a cover on the ribbon, and set font formatting on the ribbon or from the right-click menu when you select a text field.
- For more information, see Workspace in Present Lite