Slide, layout, title · 마틴과 코딩하기

Layout first. Then text. Then decoration.

Every slide has a skeleton: where the title is, where the text is, where the picture is. That skeleton is called a layout.

When you ignore it and draw text boxes by eye, titles jump a centimetre on every slide. From the back it looks like a broken poster.

The tool has ready layouts so you do not have to invent a grid.

Today you click a layout, write a title and add a second slide. You do not add everything onto the first screen.

Example: five text boxes by eye, title bottom left — the teacher does not know where to start reading. Title and body layout puts the title at the top in two seconds. Menu Slide → Apply layout.

The first slide is usually a title. The second is born with Ctrl+M, not with another paragraph on the first. The skeleton is boring. Boring holds the eyes, because they know where to look.

Tereza drew five text boxes on a blank slide. The title was bottom left, the date top right, the name across a photo. The teacher did not know where to start reading.

Jonáš chose Title and body. Title at the top, three short words under it. Even without beauty it could be read.

After the lesson Tereza deleted the boxes and put a layout. She found that the tool lines up in two seconds what she drew for twenty minutes. Menu Slide → Apply layout. Today you practise those two seconds.

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When the title “runs off”, do not nudge it with the mouse centimetre by centimetre. Click Apply layout again. The skeleton puts the title back.

Layout is a grid, not boredom

In Google Slides at the top Slide → Apply layout. Or right-click the slide on the left → Apply layout.

A title slide has a big title. Title and body has a strip at the top and a box under it. Blank layout is a trap: it tempts you to draw. For school take title layouts.

The title is a sentence, not “Slide 1”. New slide: Ctrl+M, or Slide → New slide. Do not add content forever onto the first screen.

You write text into placeholder fields (click and type). If you delete the field, the layout loses its point. So do not delete the field. Just fill it, or leave it empty.

An empty field in edit is fine. In the presentation you often cannot see it. The skeleton stays.

Jonáš makes a title: Title slide layout, title “Bees carry pollen”, subtitle subject and name. Second slide: Ctrl+M, Title and body layout, title “Honey is not the main job”, body empty for now.

Tereza on one blank slide has everything: name, outline, a joke, a photo from a trip. The teacher gets lost.

Jonáš has two screens, each with one job. The title says hello. The second carries the idea. That is layout in practice. It is not art. It is order for the eyes.

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Do not delete all placeholder fields so you have “clean paper”. Clean paper takes you back to drawing. If you need fewer parts, pick a simpler layout.

Four things you will build in this course

The course has four small projects. You do not have to do them all at once. Today you add only this:

🎯 A hobby in 5 slides

Five slides about something you like doing. One sentence about what it is. No paragraphs from your notebook.

Hobby: slide 1 title, 2–5 content in title and body layout.

📚 A report

Eight slides for school: a start, three proofs, an end. The title on every slide is a sentence, not “Slide 3”.

Report: eight skeletons, not one endless poster.

📊 Survey results

A chart from a table (not a screenshot from chat) and under it where the numbers come from.

Survey: a layout with room for a chart, not text across the axis.

⚖️ A defence

You say one sentence, show proof, answer “and what if…”. If you do not know, you say I don’t know.

Defence: a title with a sentence, later slides proof. Each skeleton on its own.

Title and second slide

You build two slides with a layout. No drawing text boxes by eye.

Open the named presentation. Click the first slide on the left. Slide → Apply layout → Title slide. Click into the big field and write one sentence about the topic, not Slide 1. In PowerPoint almost the same: Home → Layout.
In the subtitle write the subject and your name, no email. If you do not want a subtitle, leave it empty. Do not drag the text with the mouse down under the skeleton.
Slide → New slide, or Ctrl+M. At once Slide → Apply layout → Title and body. The title of the second screen is a second sentence, not a repeat of the title. Leave the body with one short line, or empty.
On the left in the slide list check the order: title first, then content. If it is the other way round, grab the thumbnail and drag it.
View → Slideshow, or Present (F5). On the title read only the heading. Right arrow to the second slide. Esc. If titles jump, go back to Apply layout.

A skeleton without drawing

Check that you did not make a fifth text box where a layout was enough.

On the second slide delete a hand-drawn field if one appeared. Put Title and body layout back.
Add a third slide with a layout. Delete it at once Slide → Delete, so you know slides are not forever.
Say out loud where Apply layout is in the menu. If you do not know, open the menu and point with a finger.

Now you 💪

The first slide has a title layout and a sentence in the heading.
The second slide was born as a new one, not as another paragraph on the first.
Titles sit at the top thanks to layout, not thanks to nudging with the mouse.

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Done when: You have a title and a second slide in Title and body layout, with no extra drawn boxes.

What to take from this lesson

Layout = where the title and body are.
New slide: Ctrl+M. Do not stretch the first one.
Write into placeholder fields. Do not draw a fifth box.
Slide 1 is not a title.
If it runs off, apply the layout again.
이름s in the examples (Tereza, Jonáš) are made up. Do not put your number, email or photo on a slide.