

I also know my readers will likely print and use a staple in the upper left corner so I make sure to keep one guide line at a half inch from the left. Making use of the page ruler, gridlines, and guides: In the View pane I always select Ruler and Guides (and sometime Gridlines) so I can make sure key text and objects are in the same position on each page.To change it, I go to the Design pane and create a custom slide size, change the settings to 8.5” by 11”, and select a Portrait orientation. Changing slide orientation: I like a traditional page layout for a report I know my readers will likely print, not the default slide size (16:9 aspect ratio).Here are a few tips I keep in mind when using PowerPoint to design my evaluation reports. Note: I’m working in MS Office 2016. These pages come from our Lorikeet Adventure: Guest Experience Research Brief. Here are some screenshots from a report that I wrote in PowerPoint. It’s a blank canvas without many limitations. You don’t need to worry about anchoring items or how inserting new text might change the position of items you’ve already included on a page.


Positioning new images and text boxes into a document is just easier in PowerPoint. You might not immediately think of PowerPoint when it comes to creating formal reports, but I love using it in lieu of more common applications like Word. There are so many options when it comes to reporting software, but one familiar face I often find myself turning to is Microsoft PowerPoint. Clear, concise, and well visualized reporting is super important and something we are passionate about. It’s important for us to disseminate our findings in ways that make our stakeholders (mainly internal staff) to dig in and explore. With everything our team does we aim to help our staff improve their programs and our guest’s experience. Our data work spans the gamut from collecting guest satisfaction insights to observing preschool kids in our nature play programming. Hi! My name is Nick Visscher, I’m an internal evaluator with Denver Zoo.
