LEVEL UP (your Google Slides & PowerPoint Tables)

Formatting and design hacks for tables in Google Slides & PowerPoint.

Molly Geoghegan, Content Marketer

Molly Geoghegan

May 24, 2022

Editing tables in Google Slides and PowerPoint is pretty straightforward. But there are a few tricks to know that will both save you time and provide very professional-looking results. 

(ie: Keep the people guessing if you even made your deck in Google Slides!) 

The ability to edit specific lines around or between cells individually is a huge part of making tables look slick. We also know it can be finicky as h*ck. 

Efficiency Guru Steve is here to walk you through these processes to save you time in the future.

This 6 minute Quick Tip Tutorial for Google Slides and a Less-Than-10-Minute Tutorial on PowerPoint Tables will provide the necessary tricks to get your tables cleaned up, and looking ready for presenting. 

What’s in store:

  • Pesky lines and borders - how to edit INDIVIDUALLY!
  • Text fitting & sizing within sells
  • Padding between content
  • Shortcuts when editing tables 
  • Alignment & margins

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About The Author

Molly Geoghegan, Content Marketer

Molly Geoghegan is a writer, organizer, and film school dropout. She hikes frequently with her dog, Guinness, and signs up for too many email newsletters. Having lived in Chicago, Paris, Dublin and Galway, Molly has van-lifed her way to the Pacific Northwest and calls Oregon home.

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