I often need to export the mind maps and fit them on a power point slide. The problem is that as airy and spaced put the map looks, on a slide, it just does not work: I have to scale it down, the text is tiny, so much empty space, and overall a bit of an “ugh” look.
Any way to move the nodes closer to the root word/make branches shorter?
Thank you!
Best answer by Craig Mackie
Hi @Kate_2025,
Thank you for reaching out with your challenge.
It is oftentimes difficult to use large diagrams in PowerPoint, as although a picture paints a thousand words, they also can take up a lot of space - very frustrating.
Although there isn’t a way to adjust the length of the connectors in a mind map, there is a method you may want to try (further to those suggested in the link above) that I use to give myself just a little more room:
Create your mind-map
Counter-intuitively, adjusting your font to something very large (e.g. change from 7pt to 36pt)
You will see that the text enlarges, but the connectors don’t, so you have effectively ‘shrunk’ the connectors, when compared to the text
Now you can copy and past the ‘enlarged’ mind-map into PowerPoint, which will scale to something easier to read (see my example below)
It is oftentimes difficult to use large diagrams in PowerPoint, as although a picture paints a thousand words, they also can take up a lot of space - very frustrating.
Although there isn’t a way to adjust the length of the connectors in a mind map, there is a method you may want to try (further to those suggested in the link above) that I use to give myself just a little more room:
Create your mind-map
Counter-intuitively, adjusting your font to something very large (e.g. change from 7pt to 36pt)
You will see that the text enlarges, but the connectors don’t, so you have effectively ‘shrunk’ the connectors, when compared to the text
Now you can copy and past the ‘enlarged’ mind-map into PowerPoint, which will scale to something easier to read (see my example below)
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