The Essential PowerPoint Tools & Elements

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1 That s why we ve created ten fully customizable templates that will give you the inspiration and foundation you need to build your own infographics right in PowerPoint. But first, let s dive into some tools you can use to customize these templates. The Essential PowerPoint Tools & Elements By learning to use the three key elements of PowerPoint text, picture, and shape you can create high-quality infographics. Throughout this template, you ll learn a number of ways to use these three elements to create your graphics. While there are three essential elements, there are four essential tools that you will be using to design your infographics: fill, line, effects, styles. These four elements will help build your color scheme, shape style, and font styles. Fill The fill of an object or text will determine the primary color of that object or text. For example, the fill of this box is dark purple. Line The line of an object will determine the color of the outline surrounding an object. The line of this box is dotted yellow. You can use the line of an object to make it stand out among colored backgrounds or give it a border.

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7 Use this text box to give some more context about the data you re displaying. How is it helping to drive home your main point(s)? Is there anything confusing that needs to be explained in more detail? Use the line graph below to compare values over time. Like pie charts, these doughnut charts are great for showing parts of a whole.

8 from an assortment of shapes, it can help to group those shapes when you need to resize or move them around your infographic. BAR GRAPHICS CAN BE EASILY MADE Learn to use a variety of shapes to create interesting graphs, charts, and other visualizations to show off your data points. You can do this by right clicking the object above, navigate to Grouping, and click Ungroup to break this object into its individual shapes. To regroup it, just highlight all the pieces, right click, and choose Group from the menu. Hold the Shift key to select more than one element at a time. SHAPES THAT LOOK LIKE GRAPHS h of these icons was created from vidual shapes and lines offered by erpoint. Using a combination of basic pes, rectangles, and lines, we were able reate some commonly used icons for graphics. You should start by choosing a base colo We used white as the base color of our icons and blue or red to create the detail 31 t forget to hold the Shift key when cting multiple pieces of one icon. Once ve selected each element of the icon, should group it so that you can more ily move and scale the object.

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