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The Slide Rebuilder

This is a real slide from a nursing in-service, and right now it is a document pretending to be an aid. Rebuild it: state the takeaway in the headline, replace the bullets with evidence, push the type up, delete the decoration — then check your work from row eight and in greyscale, which is where slides actually fail.
Headline
Or write your own assertion title — state the takeaway, not the topic
Body
Body type size — the floor is a diagnostic, not an obstacle
12 pt18 pt44 pt
Where the data labels sit
Colour coding
Emphasis
Decoration — every box you tick is noise
The slide
The three-second test
  
Signal-to-noise ratio0%
Words the audience must read0
Legible from thirty feet—