Looking to make your PowerPoint slide titles more engaging and eye-catching?
When a single emoticon doesn’t quite capture the message you want to convey,
why not combine multiple emoticons?
In this quick guide,
I will show you how to stack emoticons in PowerPoint to create compelling and meaningful slide titles.
Let’s take this boring slide:
![Slide with only the title text "Run locally"](/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/boring-run-locally-636x356.png)
Note
I am only showing the top-left corner, the rest of the slide is even more boring.
We can add an emoticon to emphasize the running part.
![Slide with the title "Run locally" prefixed with a running person emoticon](/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/running-emoticon-636x357.png)
But what if we also want to include the local part?
Let’s add a house emoticon.
![Slide with the title "Run locally" prefixed with both a house and running person emoticon](/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/house-and-running-emoticons-636x357.png)
This does not give the right feeling yet, what if we could combine the two a bit more?
Let’s merge these two emoticons to set a scene.
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Select the running person emoticon and choose Font > Subscript
Font menu with the Subscript option checked -
Select the house emoticon and choose Font > Character Spacing > Condensed by 25pt
Font menu with the Character Spacing set to Condensed by 25pt
Note
The actual value might depend on your font-size and emoticon-width.
![Slide with the title "Run locally" prefixed with a person running in front of a house emoticon](/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/house-and-running-emoticons-stacked-636x358.png)
That is it! Much better!
More examples
The same technique can be used to combine several other emoticons in this way.
Just some random examples:
- Run through the street
- Finish 3rd in a cycling competition
- Choose something from the menu
- Sales of dinosaurs has increased recently
- Save that thread
- Comment on the shopping cart contents
![Examples of several combinations of emoticons in PowerPoint](/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/examples-stacked-emoticons-636x357.png)