Complete Guide to Microsoft PowerPoint & Presentations for 2026

1. Introduction: Presentations can inspire people if they're beautiful and follow design principles. PowerPoint isn't just slides and text. It's a tool to create great designs, tell stories, and leave an impact. Welcome to the complete guide to Microsoft PowerPoint and Presentations. A hands on practical course designed to help you master the software, slide creation, and everything related to PowerPoint. In this course, I'll show you how to design clean modern slides, animate your ideas, use storytelling techniques and visualize your charts and data like an expert. From Morph and Zoom to template creation and Microsoft AI tool Copilot. Everything taught through practical project, you can follow along with the available resources. This course is perfect for anyone wanting to be considered the PowerPoint expert in town. Whether that's a good thing or not. My name is Andrew. I will be your instructor here, which makes sure that everything that I've just said will come to fruition. If you are ready to learn, enroll the course, and let's meet in the first lecture. Let's go. 2. 01-01. Design Warmup: Welcome in this lecture. This is a practical course, so we are going into the work straight away. Please open the according resource file called Introduction from Section one. When we work, you will have the ready example here prepared, so you see what you should create. And on the next slide, this is the working slide where I want you to perform the tasks that I've written out here. Okay, our task for this lecture is to create this kind of image, and this is suitable for almost any PowerPoint design. So here I have my asset. I have my photograph. I'll press Control C to copy it into my clipboard. I'll go into this slide where I'm supposed to be working and I press Control V. I've already designed this little data point, and now I would like the image to look a little better around it. So first step at the picture is done. The second step use Crop change shape round the rectangle. You can take any picture and change it into any shape that PowerPoint allows you. You can click on the picture. On the top menu, picture format will become available, and on the right side, we have crop. This is the most important feature regarding pictures. I'll hit on the down arrow, crop to shape, and I'll select the second, the rounded rectangle. Okay. But here, as you can see, we can change the roundness, but it's still too big. What can we do? Well, you can do two things here. Either, you select just crop and you crop it to be a little narrower, and you hit crop again to leave it as is or if you want to be more precise, select the down arrow, select Aspec ratio and select portraate two to three dimensions. What this will give you, it will automatically crop the area to your desired aspec ratio. I think two to three will be the perfect aspec ratio here. I'll position the guy in the middle and I'll hit Crop. Now everything is ready. I think the roundness is a bit too much, so I can click on the yellow dot and I can bring it backwards. Okay, we performed test number two and task number three. We changed it to a rounded rectangle and we used the aspec ratio of 23. Add an outline to the picture, all right. If you click on a picture, it's just like any shape in PowerPoint. I'll again, go to my picture formatting tools, and here we have three different sections picture border, picture effects, and picture layout. We want to work with the picture border. Let's select maybe a dark color or do you want this yellowish lime color? I'll select a dark color. Let's go for a black. I've selected a picture border, but it's barely visible, so you can go to the picture border again. And increase the weight. You can increase the weight to those predefined values here, or if you go to more lines on the right side in the panel, you can do this by hand to any given value you want. Let's make the width maybe two points. So it's visible so you see that something was really created here. Beautiful. So we added this outline to the picture. I'll select this as completed. Add a shape behind the picture and stylize it. Alright, you can see this is our end result. I wanted this little background to be here to kind of go in line with the design that we have here. I'll take the picture. At first, I'll right click and select send to back. All right. Now I'll go to insert shapes, and I will insert around the directangle. Now, you can start drawing around the direct angle, and you can see, because I have a color scheme selected for my template, by default, it already gets the lion color. I think this looks very pretty. I'll go right click. To back again. Now I can decide whether I want this smaller like that or I want this bigger. I can use my arrow keys to move it, behind the picture. I think we can go for something like that. That's no problem. It's just supposed to teach you that you can achieve such designs with simple photo manipulation and adding a few shapes. This is it for the first lecture for this design warmup. You are supposed to create something like this. This will be the left side of our slide. If you are capable you are if you are capable to follow all the steps, that's perfect. If not, if you are a complete beginner at PowerPoint, don't worry. I'll teach you everything gradually step by step, and we will work our way through examples like this where you will work on practical projects. See you in the next lecture. I cannot wait to meet you there. 3. 02-01. What you learn in this section: Welcome to the first real practical section. I'll teach you all PowerPoint features on practical real life appliances and examples. I won't go feature, over feature, over feature, and I won't click around the ribbon just for the sake of showing you features. I will apply them on real projects. Some of you know PowerPoint already. Some of you are completely new. I'll make it suitable for all skill groups so everything can gain as much as possible. Please open the practical PowerPoint resource file. After this section, you will be capable of grouping, aligning, and you will learn a couple of shortcuts. Let's go. 4. 02-02. Grouping: In this lecture, I'll teach you everything about grouping. If you are on the resource file, you can right click and collapse everything, and now you can open only the group with the grouping. Okay, let's go to slide number one. If I click on this slide and press Control A, you can see we have this many elements on the slide. Here on the top side, some design, here's some text, and here different objects creating our boxes with our people. Let's go to this slide where you are supposed to be working. This is the ready slide and ready slide. Here we are supposed to be working. Group the picture and vignette. Plenty of things go into this here already because we have a vignette above the picture and we have the picture. How do we select both? We need to be very skillful. I need to click here and make my selection big enough so it selects both the picture and the vignett. Okay, I should be capable of doing so, right. And I'll press Control G. The shortcut is displayed on the screen. Sadly, on the Mac version, the shortcut requires you to select one button more. Okay. Now, as you can see, we've grouped this together. I'll do this for the remaining objects. Group and group. All right. Now group the picture and vignette is ready. Group the entire block. Now, if I press again Control A to see what I have here, I can put a selection by clicking and dragging over the entire group. Pressing ContoG will allow me to group this from now on instead of moving this around and this around and this around. I can click on the group and I can move the entire group together. This is essentially why you are grouping. This will be used a lot. Okay, grouping the entire block is ready. I'll select this. I'll mark this as completed. Select items within a group and move them around. All right. To select something within a group, you need to click on the group. And then you need to click again to select objects within the group. Sometimes, sometimes the groups are a little bit complicated and it's very, very difficult to select something like for example, if this would be very visible, it would be difficult to click on this yellow object now. You can see that. What the solution is, you can always go to home, select there's the selection pane that shows all the items. We'll talk later a bit about the selection pane, but if I wouldn't be able to click here, I would select the group. Okay, this is group 16. I could open the group and I could manually click on the object here. Okay. Finally, I have the rectangle. I would use my arrow key and I'll bring it back. This is about the selection pan. Okay. We were able to selecting. Resize the entire block, see how text behaves. The problem with resizing groups is that if you resize something, the text stays as it is. So you would need to use this feature to make the text bigger according to the resizing that you did and place the text properly depending on how the text is structured. If the text is centered or being given to the left side, because if it's to the left side, then it's even more problematic. All right. So you need to be very careful when resizing groups that include text. Now I want to show you how you can ungroup this entire block because sometimes you are ungrouping items. Let me go to this slide just to show you. So I have this group and I can press my shortcut or right click group, and I can ungroup it again. But 99% of the time, I just go Control Shift G. Just as I did Control G to group, I can control Shift G to ungroup. All right. I have ungrouped it, and now what happened? Because I've grouped those pictures with the vignette, they are a separate group within the group. I could ungroup this again. Now I would have the vignette separately and the picture separate. I wanted this to happen. So this is why I first group that. For example, I could secondly group all the text boxes, and now I could group everything. So I have now a group within a group within a group. I have two different groups. If I ungroup it, the text stays grouped and the pictures stay grouped as well. This is everything about grouping. You don't need to know anything more. We will design slides later on, and we'll use it on the fly. Please practice your grouping now. 5. 02-03. Alignment: This lecture, we are going to talk about alignment. Please open the section with alignment and let us start a testament to how important alignment is. I have alignment shortcuts very close by. I have an alignment shortcut here. I have an additional alignment shortcut here if it's more convenient for my mouse. And when you click on shape format, you also have the alignment options here. So it's very important to be able to align things on the slide properly in PowerPoint. Make sure it is aligning to slide. Okay, let us start. By default, when you click on an object, you go to its shape format or to its formatting options, the alignment should be around here. When I click on alignment, you can see it is aligned to slide because only one object is selected, so it has to align to something, right? But if I shift click the second object, for example, the title here in my case, if I open alignment right now, you can see it is aligning to the selected object. So be mindful of what you select and when you align it, you can, of course, manually switch it to be aligning to the slide, but that's not important right now. Okay. When you have one object, it will align to slide because it has nothing else to align. Okay. Make sure it is aligning to the slide. Okay. I'll click on this person, and we can align it to the left center right and top middle bottom. If you have the slide, this will be left center, right, and top middle bottom. Okay, I'll align center now it's perfectly in the center of the slide. Now again, I want to align it middle align center, line middle. And this is one of the most used alignment features. This is why I have them next to each other here. I have left center center, right, top bottom. I need to have them close by because they are used so, so often because very often you want something in the perfect middle of your slide. Okay, this is the basic alignment. Let me teach you what happens when you have multiple objects selected. Once I have those two objects selected, make sure it is aligned to objects. I know it is aligning to objects. Let me open a line selected object. And this is an additional shortcut that I did for myself. You can customize the ribbon if you want, but you don't need to do this. You can always go to shape format and you have alignment here. Now, currently, if I select line, middle, they will align to the middle of each other. And align center. They'll center, but both of them shifted positions. Now, let me show you something different. If an object like here is outside another object, both will change places. Look at that. If I go to align center, line, middle, yes, they are perfectly in the middle. But this yellow box moved to the side. But if the object is within another object, not like that, but inside of it, look at that. I'll now use my shortcuts. If I go to middle middle, Middle center now only the red object moved within this object. Why is this useful? Because, for example, if you have a big shape and you have the title inside of it, let me make the title smaller and let me bring it to front. Now, if the title is here and you would like it to be perfectly in the middle of the yellow object, but you don't want the yellow object to be moving, that's no problem. Now I can center and middle it, and it will beautifully center, and the yellow object will not move. Now, here we have those three objects, and this is exactly what you are using alignment for. Let us go to the slide where it says work here, and let's beautifully align those three boxes. I'll press my shift key, shift boof, booth. Select all three objects. Hold shift and click on each. Align top. Okay, align top will align them to the furthest object on the top side. So this is the highest one. So if I go to shape format, line aligned top, everything will align to the highest object here. Now, distribute horizontally. Another beautiful feature of alignment is that you not only can align to the left, right, you can also distribute items evenly. If I distribute them evenly, horizontally, let me make it horizontally, this space and this space will be exactly perfectly the same. If I bring this a little closer, I'm often doing that and I go to my alignment and I distribute them horizontally again. The spaces become equal again. In this lecture, you are supposed to learn a little bit about alignment. Try practicing this on those examples. 6. 02-04. Merging: This lecture, I'll show merging shapes and PowerPoint and why is that useful? This is what I want you to be able to achieve within PowerPoint to create a shape like that. And here, this is more of a Gimme key trick, but I want to show you the trick, nevertheless. Okay. At first, we will work on the left object. First, select around the rectangle first, press Shift, select the circle. Now, when you select two objects, this is a circle on top of this shape. I'll select the circle first. I'll press now Shift key. I'm holding my shift key and I'm selecting the second object. And it's important which one you selected first, which one you selected second. If you go to shape format, Merge shapes, subtract. Okay, here on the left side, we have merge shapes. You can hover your mouse. What happens within different features here, intersect, subtract. Okay? What's going on? It's very weird because I've selected this red object first. But if I select the yellow first, now this takes priority, and I'll select this 1 second. I go to merge shapes and I'll now select subtract, you can see it is now subtracting from the yellow object, not the other way around. So this is what I wanted to achieve here. We can also do intersect or fragment. Fragment is also very useful because sometimes you want to fragment those objects into different pieces. So this is everything that is cutting each other is fragmented into separate objects. Now I could very nicely place another shape here, and I would have a beautiful box, a custom made box that you wouldn't be able to achieve in PowerPoint. I only show you another trick, but this is more of a trick. The second one, select all three rounded rectangles, align them to center and middle, so they overlap. This is more of a trick because PowerPoint, let me go to insert shapes. Because PowerPoint has nothing with rounded corners, only the rectangles. But, for example, you don't have a triangle with rounded corners, you don't have a hexagon with rounded corners. So there's a trick to make a shape of perfect sizes. You don't have to do this. I prepared those shapes here just to show you the technique. I have three shapes you already know how to align so I can align center, align middle, so they become almost one object. They are overlapping each other. And with my little trick, with help of three different shapes, I made another shape in PowerPoint. Sometimes we have to do this. But the thing I wanted to show you here is that you can merge objects into one because currently, those are three objects and I can manipulate those objects, but the moment I take I go to shape format to my merge shape tools. This time, I would like to union them into one shape. I no longer have any control over the objects. This is now one shape. Yes, it is still a PowerPoint shape. We can change its color. We can go into right click, format shape, and here it in the format hit options. We can change the filling to a gradient, we can reduce or increase the transparency. Yes, but we no longer can control anything of it. But I wanted to show you that sometimes with little tricks, it's possible to get different shapes in PowerPoint like here. Now it's your turn to create both of them. 7. 02-05. Format Paint: In this lecture, I'll teach you the format painter and how it can save you a little bit of time. This is what you can achieve with the format painter. Let's go to the second slide and paint over the format to the description of the second version. Okay, let's take this gradient object. On the home tab, we have format painter. We can click on the format painter and we can click on another object, and it automatically will apply its formatting to all the objects that are here because this is a group. Within the group, we have text boxes, but text boxes are also shapes. It's painted over the formatting to all three of those objects. Don't like that, so I'll press Control Z. What I could do, I could ungroup this object prior to painting this over. Now I could take the format painter and paint it over only to the object in the back. But now the text isn't very visible, so I don't like that. I just wanted to try format painter saved me time. I don't have to manually go into right click and into the format shape, and I don't have to manually click on the gradient and try to apply the gradient to be the same. Another use case scenario is the second point, create a circle and paint over the gradient format to it. Me go to insert shapes, circle, and I'll start to draw a circle. When I press Shift, it will be a perfect circle just like this guy here is. Okay, let me put this circle over if I click on this person. I go to the shape format. I have 1067. In my case, it's centimeters. So I'll just take this circle. I'll press 1067, 1068, Control V, and now it's perfect. But this guy is now invisible. What I would need to do I need to go into the formatting options, and I could increase the transparency of the circle. But if I want the grad can save myself some hassle. I can click on the object that I already have, and this is useful if you change your designs, you'll go to Format Painter and you paint this format over. In my opinion, the transparency isn't enough, so I anyway have to go in here manually. I click on the first color, and I increase the transparency. I click on the second color, and I increase transparency. Why did I do this? Because for picture overlay, bigger transparency is suitable, but here for text, the transparency had to be a little less. I could even turn off the transparency. Now I would have a solid feeling, and this also looks very good. I think maybe this would look a little better on the subject. No, the text is still invisible. I would need to change the text to black to have proper contrast. This way, you can play around with your designs and PowerPoint by using the format painter. 8. 02-06. Selection Pane: In this lecture, I would like to show you the selection pane and animation pane. In PowerPoint, there is something very important on the home tap. Select. We have our selection pane. The selection pane shows you every object that is currently present on your given active slide. On this slide, it seems we have this many objects. What's very useful is that you can click on something. For example, this is the overlay for the picture. You can double click on it and change the name to overlay number one. Let me make it invisible. Let me click on the picture, and, for example, press picture one or picture of Mr. Format Painter. I can place them next to each other. Let me make the overlay now visible. If I place the picture above the overlay, it gets put above it. You can see this overlay is now in the back. You can either right click select send two back. It will be sent completely to the bottom of the selection pane or sent backwards. It will be sent one level further down. If I send backward, you can see the picture now is below the overlay. So, this is what you need to know about the selection pane. You can make things visible and invisible. Since PowerPoint, I think 2021, there is an update that allows us to lock layers. Now we can only click on them, but we cannot move them around. The selection pane is important because it allows you to rename objects because later on when we learn about animations, let me, for example, take this overlay. It's overlay number one. If I go to animations, I have a fade animation. If you open out the animation pane, which is another pane that shows you all the animations. The selection pane shows you all the objects the animation pane shows you all the animations. Now the animation is called Olay number one. It's far easier to understand which one that is than if I apply an animation here, apply an animation here, apply an animation here. It's just called textbook 42, Textbox 37 group 23, and you don't really know unless you know what you're doing, you don't really know what is sat but here, I know that this is overlay number one. I animated overlay number one, and I perfectly know what's happening here. About the animations and the animation pane, we'll talk, of course, later. But for this lecture, you were supposed to learn about the selection pane, start using it, open it, get familiar with it, deselect a couple of elements, and this will be one of the tools that you surely will always use in PowerPoint. For the rest of your PowerPoint usage, you'll surely need to know about this feature. 9. 02-07. Shapes: Welcome in this lecture. In this lecture, I want you to be capable and know how to create something like that from something like that. Shape features are very simple and understandable, but everyone doing anything in PowerPoint needs to know how to achieve that. If you click on a shape, you go to its shape format. As I've mentioned, we have shape, outline and effects, and the same for the text, fill Outline Effects. Even though I added the text as separate boxes here, I could just as well start typing inside my shape, and now every of those options would apply to this text because they are part of this shape. If I go to shape filling, I can change its color. You can see it's changing the color on the back, and I have a couple of additional features. We have a gradient feature, but I have only a couple of pre selected gradients here and we have a texture feature, but in my opinion, this is a little obsolete. What you can, however, do, when you don't like the gradients that you have here, you can select more gradients. This will open the format shape panel on the right side. If you've already saw, you can also right click and open the format shape panel here by selecting it like that. What you have here is all the features but a little bit expanded, for example. If I go to shape format and go for my shape outline, I can, for example, make a red outline, and I can change the size of this outline up to six points. But what if I want seven points? Then I need to go to the right format shape panel to my line options. And here we have everything in greater detail. We can increase it to seven or even eight points. I know that's incredible. Can click around a little bit with those features. What I often use, I use the cap type to be rounded. Well, not with a rounded rectangle, but if there is a different shape, I want those shapes to be a little bit rounded. I use the width. Sometimes I use the transparency, and if I feel like it, I like to have a graden line. Okay. Let me now apply different changes, so our object will be similar. Let me take this object first. Let me maybe delete the text. I want you to focus on this object. First thing I want you to do is to start rotating it. You can start rotating it by clicking on this handle and moving your mouse or when you press your shift key, it will rotate every 15 degrees. Let's make something similar, like that. Okay. And now we will do everything else within the format shape options because here we have more features. We have the shape filling, we have effect options, and we have sizing options. And actually, within the size, we have the rotation, and you can see that we have 15 degrees of rotation applied here. Okay. Now for the filling, let's go for the filling. Et's go for a gradient and let's achieve a blue gradient like that. I'll take the first color. I will select my blue color. Okay? And here I have a lighter blue. I'll select the second color, and I'll select one of the lighter blues. Okay. But now I can change the direction. It will barely visible, but here we have from the corner, from the top side, from right to left, from left to right. I want from top to bottom. Okay, the second one is perfect. We can stay with that. I can see the color is a little darker, but I could click on the first color and I could just select one of the darker colors if I really wanted. For the line options, you already know that you can work with them here. I can see that we have a red line, and here we have a blue line. So I actually selected a gradient as well. By default, we have this weird gradient. You can click and drag away, click and drag away, and let's create a gradient from the blue to the red color. Okay. They are the other way around, but you can see you can either manually change the angle or you can change the direction like that. If you want the red color to be on the top, you just select this one, and now the red color is on the top. If you want, you can select transparency for each single color in ingredient. This will create this beautiful effect. No. You can also see that I have some kind of glow effect around it. Let me take this object. Let me now go to effects. The most used effects in reality, are shadow, shadow and shadow. Sometimes glow, but I really like to have everything with my shadow. So I'll select. At first, I'm always starting with the preset, so it gives me those basic features, and then I can increase the blur a little. At first, I reduced transparency to see it very harshly. Okay, this is the shadow. You can even change the shadow color. For example, to blue. Now I can maybe increase the blur and increase the transparency so it's barely visible. You can see a slight shadow around it. If you want a reflection on the bottom, just like we have here, it's barely visible, but it's a reflection. You go to the next effect, go to reflections, and here we have a couple of presets. Let me select a longer preset. We have a big reflection. But what you can do with the reflection, you can either give it a blur, you can give it a blur, okay? And maybe you want a shorter reelection like that. So we have just a part, and I'll increase the blur and beautiful. We have this additional object here. This is everything about shape features that I wanted to teach you, either work on them within the format features, or you can click on the shape format, or you can work directly here with the text, with the effects, and with the outlines. Thank you and try to create a shape like that yourself now. 10. 02-08. QAT: In this lecture, I would like to briefly touch on the Quick Access Toolbar for PC and Mac. On PC, you can have it on the top side or on the bottom side. On the Mac version, for now, you can only have it on the top side. But still, it's very useful to have the Quick Access toolbar. The Quick Access Toolbar allows you to put any feature here you see in PowerPoint. For example, do you often use the icons? You right click. You select Add to Quick Access Toolbar. If you cannot do it like that on the Mac, if there are some problems, you can always customize the ribbon. You can select more command you can find all the features here. Remember to not only select popular commands, but you can select all commands or commands from a given tab. When I search something, I just go for all commands, and I try to type it in to find it. Once you find it, you can add it to the Quick Access Toolbar. Please do not copy my Quick Access Toolbar at this point because it's personal preference. But what I highly recommend is that you at least at least at the shapes feature and the align feature and maybe the sizing features to your Quick Access toolbar right now. How to do this? On Windows, you can go to Insert Redlicon shapes and select Add to Quick Access Toolbar. They will be on your Quick Access Toolbar right now. You probably have the safe and auto safe features. I recommend that you reli on them and you remove those unnecessary features. As you can see, I have no saving. If I need to save my PowerPoint, I just press Controls. The reason I want to have as much space as possible here is that on Windows, you can press your left old key, and numbers appear. Numbers allow you to quickly grab a given shortcut. Most often, I use old one and old two to add the shape. So right now, when I'm in PowerPoint and I need to add the shape in the middle PowerPoint, I just press Alt two, boom, shape, l two, boom, shape. And this enhances my workflow greatly. The same for alignment. If I want those shapes to be in the middle, I either click quickly here because I went to picture formant to align, and I've selected all of the features and I place them manually here or I just press old one, Alt one, and I can press C and Alt one M. You can look at that. Old one, C, old. And now my shapes are perfectly in the middle. I recommend that you add those shortcuts to your Quick Access toolbar. You don't have to do this, but it's very, very convenient. The same with the sizing options. The reason I'm doing the sizing options here because when I'm having a shape, for example, I'm having a shape. If I'm on the shape format, that's no problem because I see it on the right side. But if I'm designing something or I'm working with the animations and I no longer remember, Hey, how big was this shape? I have the sizing options right exactly here. Oh, I want this to be 10 centimeters per 5 centimeters. Okay. And this way, I resize this object without manly going to shape format, and it's on the far right side. I don't like that. I like to have my sizing options here. This is personal preference. Once working in PowerPoint, you'll find your taste and find your shortcuts, but I have to insist that you at least place the insert shapes and place the alignment options here to have the most commonly used close by. On the Mac version, you'll have them on the top side, but still, this will be very useful. Try to add them. 11. 03-01. Introduction: Welcome into this section where I'll teach you presentation principles that apply to any type of design you make. This section will make you a better communicator, a better presenter, a better designer. I want to show you how you can go from that, from a text heavy slide into something well designed that clearly communicates the most important information and data. Those are literally the same slides, but just designed differently using visual hierarchy and plenty of principles that I want to teach you right now. 12. 03-02. Visual Hierarchy: In this lecture, I'll talk about visual hierarchy especially the one that applies to PowerPoint designs and PowerPoint slides. And at first, I want to talk about scale, the size, the importance. Let's, for example, look at those objects in the bottom. This is plain and simple text. Everything is of the same size. The title is of the same size. The bullet points are of the same size. Can I even call them bullet points. I see three items here, but are they really how to differentiate them? But here, if I apply a little bit of size and a little bit of importance to each of them, I can now clearly see there is a title. There are three different segments. They have the same size, so probably they are of equal importance. So I've used scale to visually show you what's happening. I would, for example, give it a color in the background, I would elevate this a little bit more, and it would be a tiny bit better understandable. Those would be the very, very basics of slide design, how I would initially change the bottom text into the top text. Then the next will be form. This means shapes, some repetition, some balance. You don't always have to use all the same shapes within a PowerPoint slide. But if you use different objects, now, look at that. What do you see in those informations? Do you think the black big circle is more important than the other ones or which color is here of most importance? Which object Which data? Are they equal? You aren't sure. But if you find a form and you use it consistently throughout your presentation, throughout your slides, and you present your data like I can now immediately see, Okay, those objects are equal in size. They are probably equally ranked and equally important, depending on the presenter, how the presenter will present it. He can present one color to be more important than the other. But in general, I see that we have now some form and some balance. The next will be alignment. With alignment, I've noted down several items like spacing, proximity, and placement. At those objects. Your brain immediately thinks that those are two different groups of objects of three, the top group and the bottom group. You can see I placed them just enough apart. I used spacing to make your brain think that you have the top object and the bottom objects. Then I've used proximity. That means how close or how far apart the objects are towards each other. The top objects are close to each other, and the bottom gray objects are close to each other as well. Placement, I deliberately placed one on the top side, one on the bottom side. This way, you feel that those are two different groups. And if a situation like that of course in the bottom, you have three objects that seem like they are one group, but the other objects are of the same size, of the same color. Are they equally important? Are they not? You aren't sure. So I'm using alignment on my PowerPoint slides in order to make the viewer understand the information. Let's do it on an example. We have information on the left side and on the right side. Now, you aren't sure. Are those the same kind of informations? Are they are they equally important? Why are they spread apart? But if I organize them next to each other, now the message becomes clear, understandable, and very visually pleasing, I would say. Let's go forward. The last thing I want to say when you create presentations, you already nailed down the scale, the form, and the alignment. Then you can become a little bit fancy and use design, color, contrast, symmetry, all that into your PowerPoint slides. You can see clearly, if you have just line objects, you aren't really sure. But on the second example, you have nine objects and two are differently colored. You immediately know that something is up, something is with those two. They are different from the rest of the group, and this is why you use color and design. This is everything I wanted to explain you for the basics of visual hierarchy. This will be the slide that we'll try to design based on all the principles that I've just said. Let us continue to the next lecture. 13. 03-03. Viewing Patterns: In this lecture, we'll talk about viewing patterns. And before I continue to teach you PowerPoint because you came here to learn PowerPoint, but I cannot teach PowerPoint without saying to you that the human brain, the human eye, the way you absorb information from websites, from presentation, from data, from books. That present information is usually on an F shaped pattern or a Z shaped pattern. Those are the basic viewing patterns. Of course, depending on how information is placed, it can be different. But there are studies about that. You don't have to take only my word about that, and there are literally heat maps of information of data of blog posts that show exactly how the human eye responds and the human brain tries to learn the information that it sees in front of us. That information can be very easily translated into PowerPoint designs and designs in general. Let's take a look at the pattern. If you take a look at the Z pattern and you come up with the slide that I've created, there is a reason why I created this slide like that because I would like the viewer to at first skim a little bit through the title. Okay, the title is big, bold and very visible. Then I would like to inform the viewer about the information on the bottom. I know that his viewing pattern will be exactly like that, and I can very confidently present this slide and know that people will understand it because everything is slowly explained. Now, I would like to just briefly touch on the Gottenberg diagram. It basically shows you, let me take the pen. It shows you that the reading gravity of people is towards the right, bottom corner. Let me erase all ink. Let me take blue color. If I divide this slide into four, Gutenberg diagram says that we have section number one, number two, number three and number four. The first being the most prominent and strongest focal area, then the viewer goes towards the bottom, number four being the terminal area. So if I erase everything, the human eye usually goes around slides, something like that, towards the end. So very often, you want to present the most important information in the right bottom side, but this doesn't apply 100% always. I wanted to tell you that in general, the human eye, the human brain works like that, and you just need to be mindful what information you place where on slide. Sometimes you want the most important information to be on the left side, sometimes you want the most important information to be on the right side, and you need to use color and visual appearance to either draw the attention towards this site or this side. Remember about that, let's continue, and we will do this on a practical example as well. 14. 03-04. Reducing Text: Now we will work on the design of the slide. We have something like that, and we need to make a nice slide out of it. If I would want to serve you some kind of blueprint, some kind of game plan that you can use over and over, always in your presentation, I would say, first, work on the text because you are gathering all the information and then work on the design. For the text, I recommend that you divide the text into some important information. Then you rank what is most important, what should be bigger, what should be smaller, and then you reduce the amount of text to the minimum available. If you will be presenting, then you should go almost text less, but this is not a rule of thumb. This is a general idea how I approach this. Okay. This is what you want to achieve. This is how I want you to trim the text, and this is what we have. Okay, let's start working. Separate the blocks. Now, we have clearly three important bullet points. I will just split them apart by pressing Enter two times, and it would be best if you would press Control D, and I'll do this. I'll press Control D, and I'll delete number one and number three. Here, I want to press Control D, and I want to delete all of them. So I'm left with three separate boxes, and each box has the information separately. We could use an add on to PowerPoint from bright slide to automatically split our boxes, but not everyone wants to use add ons, so I'll do this by hand. Okay, I've split the text into three separate boxes. This already will allow me to create some kind of design on this slide. Now, rank them by most important. We are a vending machine company, and those are the numbers that we are producing. We have this many machines installed. We have this many transactions on those machines because we can pay with card, and we have those machines in different countries. And I think all the information well, I've done the research for the presentation, so I know all the information are of equal importance. This is why I have them bolded. And they are of the same size because if information number one would be the most important, then probably probably you would want this to be bigger as opposed to those other two. But this is not the case, so let's work on it. So I have ranked them, and this is exactly fine here. Now, reduce rewrite text. You need to trim the text considerably. Now we have 2,500 machines installed. Snack Bite has strategically placed machines in high traffic areas like corporate offices, fitness centers, airports, ensuring convenience and maximizing sales potential. Well, this is redundant. This is not important. Ensuring convenience and maximizing sales potential. This is just sale text. This is just a pitch snack bite. We know that this is a presentation about Snack Bite. This is redundant. We don't need to confirm this multiple times, and this is how you approach reducing the amount of text. Those kind of machines installed, I'll even delete strategically placed. Of course, we place them strategically, not randomly. Machine may be placed mainly in high traffic areas. I would even delete those, but it depends whether you will present this or not. Let's leave it as that. 1.2 million monthly transactions with AIPort recommendations and contactless payments. Customers enjoy a frictionless snacking experience leading to consistent and growing transaction volumes. Well, all of that below is not important. AI powered AI powered recommendations and contactless payments contribute to 1.2 million monty transactions. If I would be the presenter, I would say that. Maybe I would say what was written here on the bottom, but in my own words, this shouldn't be written out. Eight countries operated in. The company has expanded into key global markets, tailoring its next selection to regional preferences while maintaining a seamless tech driven vending experience. The company has expanded into key global markets like exam country, country, country. Be data driven, use action titles, use information that is actually clearly stating some useful information. This is how you approach mostly business presentations, but presentations in general. If you want to be a better powerpoint user, you also need to be a good communicator. So those are already much, much better. I like the text more. Let's see what I did here previously. Part recommendations and contactless Payan countries, big markets like, yeah, China, India, Germany, so I was thinking the same thing. I would even delete that, but we did something similar. I didn't remember what I did previously, so that's perfect. You can see this is how you can possibly trim text. You trim redundant information, you trim unimportant information to just have the most important data displayed. Let's continue once you already reduced the text. 15. 03-05. Applying Hierarchy: In this lecture, I would like us to apply some visual hierarchy into those text boxes to go from this into that. Okay, this is the ready slide that we created. And very often, if you have three different informations on a slide, you can use this type of design. Of course, they could be on the right side, but here I decided to place them in the middle. Why did I do this? Because the human brain likes information to be split into three information four information, six, eight becomes a little bit too much. So you want to avoid using eight different information pieces on one slide. You probably should put them on two different. Scale. Place them as three vertical text boxes. Consider making Title bigger. Okay, let's do the first one. So the first one I would do, and because all people do always those bullet points slides, the first thing you do, you already stand out if you do something like that. You put the boxes like that, and this information is already very clear. Consider making Title bigger. Yeah. The first title is more important. So I'll take the title. I'll go to home, and you can enlarge the text. I most often use my shortcut Control shift and this four bracket. So we have 28 here, 24 here. Okay. Let's make it 28. And this 28 as well. Alright. Now I'll take the first, middle, and third box and center the text. Okay, I see that this box should be a little bit bigger. This can be deleted. This can be deleted. This already looks a little bit more clear. Okay, scale. Now form. Pick a design or template you'd like to follow. I will recommend going to insert shapes, and I've selected around the rectangle. This is the nicest looking shape within PowerPoint. You can, of course, go for a rectangle or for those other shapes. Like for example, this parallel logram. I have always difficulties saying that. All right. I'll use the rounded rectangle because it gives me the most flexibility, and I'll put them behind. I want to make sure that I nail the design right now. So I reduce the rounding. I make it a bit bigger, and I right click select send to back. All right. Now this is sent to back. I can position this now or later. That's no problem. The most important thing, I want this to be big enough to be placed in front of the text. Right click, send it back. Do you know my alignment trick? Because the text is already in the middle, I only have to align center, align middle, and it will be placed perfectly in the middle of this shape. Align center, align middle. If you don't have the shortcuts set up like me, go to shape format, align, center, align, middle. Okay. Now I would like to group those boxes. Group and aligned boxes. I'll group this, Control G, I'll group this, Control G, I'll group this. Control G. Now I can select all three of them. And I'll distribute them horizontally. Now, the space between them is equal. Now my other trick is to group them once again. PowerPoint now thinks that this is one big object, and I want to put this one big object in the middle of the slide. For example, if it's too far to the left side, I'll just place it center. Now we have beautiful equal spaces here. I can take this, I can control Shift G to ungroup it, and now I think I did it all. Now the design, color, contra symmetry, I think all of them are symmetrical. The information is clearly stated. Of course, we could use some design, some color, but let's do it in the next lecture. In the next lecture, I would like to continue working on the design. At any given point, I can either click on the text, I can select the text. And for example, from the shape format, textfil I can change the text fill color. I can click on the shape. I can change the color of the shape as I want. Remember about that that we have the colors always present here, and we can change them at any given point. In the next lecture, we'll make the actual slide design. 16. 03-06. Slide Design Pt.1: In this lecture, I would like to finalize this design by creating something like that. Let's see what we can do to go from a generic slide like that into something very, very cool looking and sophisticated. Okay. Reduce text within three boxes completely. Let's do the first task. Now, I'm the presenter and I know that I will be capable of presenting this. I can on the bottom open my notes, and if I need the text to be later used, I can put it here. So I'll reduce the text by deleting it and showing only the most important information. I'll place the text here. The way you can do this, you can select a text, Control X to cut it out. And here, Control V to paste it. Oh, I pasted in the middle. Well, I'll place it on the left side. Okay? And now this one, I'll cut it out and I place it here. Okay. This way, I have the text. If I need it later, within the notes, I can close out the note. I have now all the text boxes in the middle. Now, I'll take all the three text boxes. I'll make this smaller, but the text is in the middle. Would like the box to be made smaller from both sides at the same time. You can press your left control key while resizing. Start to resize, hold your mouse and press left control. This way, you make the box smaller and you see whether the design is good or not. Now I can position the text in the middle either with PowerPoint or with my alignment tools. I can use my alignment tools and alignment tools here. Well, this will not work because this text is a little bigger. I'll just use my arrow keys. Let me use my arrow keys and position it. I'll delete the bottom parts. This is why this was bigger. Okay. I have those information I think the slide is now a little bit too empty. I wanted to use an icon here. I could use icons for one, two, three, but this time, I decided for something else. You can go to the assets, and you have either icons or this high quality icon that I found online. Well, you can decide which one you want to use. Alternatively, you can go to Insert, but there is very little chance that there will be vending machine icons and illustrations within PowerPoint. But vending let's try. Let's try. Okay, vending, maybe some kind of vending. Most likely if I type in Shop, also not. Shop vending. Well, shop would be here if you need a very basic icon within PowerPoint. So I'll use Control C, and place this on my slide. I'll place it on the left side, and I know that people will read the title first. I want the title to it isn't mandatory that the title is always on the top side. You can place the title on the right side, and you can select the first part and press Control B to bolden it. The numbers. And this would be the first part of the slide. In the next lecture, I would like to finalize this design by changing the bottom boxes a little bit and giving them a little bit of design. Let's see each other in the next lecture. In this one, you should be capable of creating the first part of the slide. 17. 03-07. Slide Design Pt.2: In this lecture, I would like to continue the slide design. Now, do you remember what I was telling about proximity, about size? Clearly, this is too close. We have no space here on the top side. Position shapes. Okay, I want to take the shapes. I want them to be lower. I'll use my arrow keys, or you can just start to position them, but I recommend pressing shift. This way, they will not move around, and they will slide vertically. Okay, I have on the bottom. I think they should be a little bit smaller. The way you can achieve that, you can select the first one, the second, the third. You can start to resize them, right? But if you press your shift key, they will be on equal proportions and always the same. If I additionally press my left control key, they will now all of a sudden be resized. From its middle point. Okay, so I'll resize them like that. Okay, now they are a tiny bit smaller. I think this is okay. Now, for the text, I think the data is the most important. The text doesn't need to be as big. So I'll reduce the text to 18 points. This here, I should be consistent. Do you remember visual hierarchy consistency? Well, this is less text, but still it's the same size, so it looks really good. We have one data point. I'll delete this. Okay. Make sure that all three boxes are equal. Okay, I see they are equal, but if they wouldn't, I would align them to top. Okay, all of them are perfectly aligned next to each other. Now I can use colors from the template. I click on the first shape. Okay, the first shape can have the first color. The second shape, shape format. Shape I can have the second color or the third, but I like to be the most prominent color to be in the middle. But let's just go for the gray one. And here, what do we have in this template? We have a dark one. Well, since we have a dark one, then let's use a dark one. Obviously, you need to click on the text. Text fill and make the text white in order to achieve some contrast. Modify the size, position them nicely. You can do it. Use center alignment distribution. Okay, we are working on that. I think we already positioned them nicely. I will take this icon. I will position the icon a little lower because I like to have some space here on the top side. And for the title, I would prefer the title to be a bit further to the right side in order to give me visual clarity. I think the icon is a little too big. I'll make the icon a little smaller, and I think this could be a little higher. This is how we make adjustments, but those are only small adjustments to an already well designed slide. Adjust the design. Consider adding an icon if you feel like it. If I feel like it, if I feel like it, I could take those icons. You don't have to, but you could complete the design if something is lacking to you. You can always complete the design with some icons, with some fancy items. For example, for example, those machines, countries and those cards. Since this is a vector icon, I can take the graphics format and change the color, for example, to white. I would recommend to give a circle here because I would probably send this to back. I would probably do something like that if I would like those icons to be here. Because this line is problematic now, I'll select all three boxes. Shift, click, shift, click, shift click. All three boxes, shape format, shape Outline, and I'll select no Outline. Now, this looks much better. And this design is a tiny bit different than the previous one. Here I made those little lines just so the information. This is on purpose because I wanted you to immediately know this information is connected, is of the same equal importance. Here, we went for a different design. Is this okay? Absolutely. Right click Send to back. It's just your imagination. Of course, this comes with experience, but I wanted to show you that PowerPoint can be very playful, okay? This automatically copies over here, and I'll change the color. You can see I have a shortcut for that as well. If I wouldn't have a shortcut, I would go to shape format, shape fill, and I would select the color here. Now, for those, I don't like the black line. So shape Oline we have pre selected. No Outline. Okay. This is the design in final shape and form. When I would be presenting, I would probably even animate this, animate this, animate this. For convenience, I can select Control G, Control G, Control G, and from now on, I can move them independently and everything at once. This is my initial slide design. To be honest, I like this more. I like this more, but I wanted to show you a different approach that maybe this is too much icons here because we have an icon here, an icon here. This is personal experience and taste. I don't like it. I would probably delete this icon if I would make the slide like that, and I place the title here in the middle with a design with icons. But I wanted to show you all PowerPoints possibilities and how easy it is to do different designs. By default, I would like you to create a slide like this. If you would like to make those little connections here, you can go to insert shapes, and there are plenty of lines available. I'm using the arc the arc line allows you to make something like that. For the shape outline, you would like to go for something dark. And this arc, I'm rotating it. You can take the yellow points and you can make this longer or shorter. This way, I placed them here. I duplicated this It click and selected sent to back to look like a connection. Now it's your turn. 18. 04-01. Introduction: Welcome to the slide design section. The goal of this section is to teach you as many PowerPoint features as possible and being able to translate that into actual real world slide design. I have prepared a very consistent presentation. Let me go to view Slide Sorter to show you the slates that we will be creating have already prepared a color scheme and some fonts so you don't have to do anything only open this file and start working. What's the advantage of having a color scheme? When I insert the shape, and I go to its shape fill, I have color all the colors pre populated in my template. I'll later teach you also how to do this. An additional feature is that if you go to file, options save here on the bottom, you can embed fonts inside of presentations because I don't want to force you to install different fonts, I have embedded all the characters of this font into the presentation, so you only have to open this file and start working. Let's go. 19. 04-02. Gradient: In the first lecture, we will work on the first slide. You can scroll down and where it says work here, this is the place where we can work. If you want to always see the slide that you are currently designing and you have newer versions of PowerPoint, because of the zoom feature, you can drag and drop this slide right here, or you can take a screenshot and put it somewhere here or just hover it here, and you will see it. You can enlarge the left area as well. Okay, I'll have it here and let us start designing. At first, I want a picture to divide our slide. On the bottom, we have assets. From the assets, it's optional to use my image or use your own. I tried to find an image with similar coloristics to the presentation that we are doing, and I was able to do so. If I wouldn't be able to find a picture like that, you can always put a gradient above the picture to somehow make it look like the slide. Okay, work here, Control C and Control V. I have the picture here. You already know some cropping features. Go to picture format. Click on the cropping features and enlarge the crop. Not the picture yet, enlarge the crop to approximately the size what you think will be fitting for your design. I want to start with that, and without wasting time, I can again, click on crop and I can select fill. This will automatically resize the picture to make a filling to my crop area. I can decide whether I want the picture a little bit to the left or to the right. When you press your shift key, it will be easier to hover around horizontally. Okay, I think the picture is placed perfectly. I'll select crop. I want to work on this area. I can either add a shape or work with a background color. Let me maybe work with a shape. For that, I'll go to insert shapes or use my shortcut bolt two. I prefer that, and I'll insert a regular rectangle. You can click drag. You don't have to be precise right now because we can always enlarge this rectangle to the appropriate size. Okay? Perfect. Now for the shape outline, I want no outline because I want a very clean design. Now, how to go about gradients. I want gradients that will go in line with my presentation with my color scheme. And since I have already this color scheme selected, it will be so much easier to work. Okay, let me get to the slide. Let me click on the shape, right click, format shape. And here instead of a solid fill, I will select a gradient fill. I already have the gradient. But let's assume that I have no gradient selected. I have random colors, and I want to do it from scratch. I want a gradient that goes between three colors, and my main purple color should take the majority of this gradient. So what I'll do, I'll take the first color and select maybe a black one. Okay? I will add another color by clicking or by selecting this plus sign, and now I'll go for this purple. You can extend your gradient by selecting another stop. This is called a stop and selecting the same color. This way, this color will have a little bit more agency. But sometimes it makes the distinction between two colors a little bit too harsh. Okay. Let me take the last color. I'll put it at the very bottom of the gradient, and I'll select the first orange or maybe the darker orange, or even a darker shade of the existing color that we have because we have the main colors of our template, and here we have lighter shades and darker shades of it. I'll take the darker shade. Okay, I think this works perfectly, and it also looks very nice with the picture that we have. Try to give the purple a little bit more agency. Okay, here on the left side as well. Okay, I think we are done with the gradient. We don't have to do anything else here. 20. 04-03. Overlays: The last thing I would like to apply here would be text boxes with information, and this is now important. If you go to Insert and insert a textbox, or you go to insert shapes, and the first shape is always a textbox. This was also implemented in newer versions of PowerPoint. I think in 2019, you need to click somewhere outside of this box because if I click inside this box, I'm just starting to type because PowerPoint says, Hey, you don't need a textbox because you can type within this shape. That's not true. I want to have a separate text box, so I need to click somewhere outside this slide. Learn enter PowerPoint because this is the topic of our presentation, and I'll put this in the middle. Now, this allowed me to have a separate text box. I will select my title font for the headings. I'll make this a lot bigger because I want this to be the main information, and I will change the text color to white. So we can change the text color here or by going to shape format. Here we have also text options, so two places where we can change the text color, and you immediately see that we are approximately right with the size if you remember our alignment information, you can select this object and you can center it. Now, this text will be perfectly in the center of the left object. It's debatable whether you want this to be more on the left side. I want this to be on the middle. Okay, to save myself time, I press Control D to duplicate this textbox. Now I no longer need the heading font, so I'll go to home, and I'll select the regular font. I want to make it much, much smaller. I want to call it online course, And for the color, I have my shortcut, and I will use the shortcut that I already have, and I will go for maybe the first one. So let's go for the first one. Let's make this even smaller so it's not so prominent. Okay. And what else did we write here? Some subtitle, Master the software and it's features. Yeah, that's simple. So we can control D. Actually, I really like when it's orange like that, so I'll leave it as that. You can decide whether you want this white or this orange. And this gives me some closure. I think this online course text is far too big, so I'll again, make this smaller. I want this to be just a small information in the background. Look at it now, let me maybe still go for the white color. I think this will be more consistent with the oral design. I want to make this a little smaller. Okay, perfect. The last thing I want to do because I need some closure within this slide. To have some closure, what I did, I added elements here and I added a sample date here because it's a bit too empty to open. What you can do to tackle those problems, you can write your name, you can write the you can write some kind of date or you can add design elements, a circle, rectangle. What I did, I used a rectangle. Let's make it big at first. I made a rounded rectangle. I made it like that, and I press Control D. So we have three little boxes. Now I can go to Shape Outline. No outline shape fill. Make it white, press Control G to group, and I created a little navigation design element. Maybe it shouldn't look like a navigation design element, but I just wanted to have something here to give my slide closure. This is also in line with Gestalt design theories. You can read about that a little, and when there is closure, it looks a little better for our brain. Okay, I think this way, you should be capable of creating the first slide. Of course, we can adjust where the text is. We can reposition everything I wanted to make you able to create text boxes, create gradients, and work with cropping confidently. Please create a slide like that, and we'll continue from there. 21. 04-04. Icon Usage: In the next two lectures, we will work on a slide like that. What's important here is perfect alignment to everything and making icons uniquely consistent with the presentation that we are creating. Let me show you what I mean by that. Let me go to the asset slide. And here I have a couple of sample icons. You could use different ones, but it doesn't really matter. Let me select a new slide. This is a blank layout. You can make sure that you have a blank layout by right clicking layout and selecting a completely blank layout. Now for the background, let's go. Since we are going for this dark theme, let me right click Format background, and for the color, let's select black or the dark one that we have here. You can decide by yourself if you want this pure black. I'll paste the icons. They are here, but they are invisible. Let me make the icons. Okay. It seems that I made their filling white, but not everything is with a filling. Some are with outlines, so I'll select the outline. White. Just this one icon. Instead of having an outline, I'll select no fill. Instead of having an outline, it appears to have a filling. Okay, I'll select outline, no outline, and I was able to make those icon white. Some icons are created with shapes, some are created with outlines. Alright. But that's not important right now. Let me place a slide here and see the design that you are aiming for. Okay, I want two text boxes. We can go to our previous slide, and I highly recommend that. Of course, normally you would also have animations on it, but currently, we have no animations. I want to teach you this separately. And let's make a point. Let's make a point. Okay? Let me position this on the left side, and let me Control D and show you a little trick. You can either use Copilot to just generate a little text for you or you can select equal sign Lorem, one, and enter. This will give you an entire Lorimipsum sentence. What you need to do, you just need to delete most of the sentence, and let's just leave a little bit of it. Okay. I want this to be a little lighter, so I will reduce the size. I'll put this here, and maybe I want to differentiate this text with making it a tiny bit gray. Okay? I think 14 is too small for presentations. Let's do it like that. Let's delete the last few things, and this is what we want. Okay, we have one, two, three. Let me delete that. Now I'll go to my previous slide. I'll take this gradient that we created previously, Control C, and I'll paste this gradient here. I'll make this smaller. Now, this gives me a reference to the coloristics and style of my presentation. What I want to achieve if I have icons that are only white and I feel like some design is lacking. My trick here is to go into insert shapes and use a shape in the back, for example, around a rectangle, a triangle, a circle, or a couple of objects depending on what form that you choose for your presentation. Let me be very simple here and take an oval and if you put a shape, behind the icon, it can all of a sudden get a unique twist. Let me go to Shape Outline. No outline, right click. Send to back and put the icon, maybe make it a bit smaller. I'll press my shift key, so it's consistent in size. Okay. And I'll put it here, and it appears to be working very well with this icon. I can decide whether I want a different color for my presentation. For example, let's go for this right one because I don't want to do things exactly as I did here. Let's give it a different twist, a different spin. The red is a little bit intensive. It interferes a little bit with the icon bit. Maybe let's put it on the top side. Okay. I could repeat those steps with all my icons, and all of a sudden, they would be a bit more interesting, a bit more consistent with my presentation. I'll send these two back. Okay, I'll group that, group that, group that, group that, and now I have pretty and unique icons. I'll position them later with you in the next lecture. Let us position them in the next lecture. Currently, I would like to do the design. Control D, Control D. And Control D. This is what I want you to achieve in this presentation. Look at that. It looks completely unique like you would have some super custom icons, but in reality, what I did, I went to insert icons. I just selected a couple of icons and with help of a simple circle and coloristis that we have in our presentation. I already looks a bit more sophisticated. Thank you for this lecture. Let us go to the next lecture where we finalize this slide to be perfectly looking. 22. 04-05. Alignment: Let us continue our slide design so we achieve something like that. Learning makes everything beautiful. Okay. Let me go to my first slide. We already have the text, and I'll paste the text here. Learning makes everything beautiful. Let me delete the PowerPoint text. And here for the last sentence for the last word, let's select a different color. I used the purple one, but it would disappear on this background. Let's use the red one because we are going for the red one on this slide. If you feel like this gradient should get a little darker, then maybe change the colors, maybe put the color on the left up side and put the dark one on the bottom side. This may be creating a completely different vibe. Let me delete one of the purple ones. You don't have to make it completely the same. It just needs to work with the design you are currently doing. We changed the gradient a little bit. Well, it still is consistent with the presentation, but I did make some changes to make the slide unique. Now, let me show you something about alignment. I already told you in previous lecture how to align a little bit, but now this is in a practical real world example. Of course, the text in real world, the text won't be always that perfect like we have here. But let me show you what I mean. I'll group this, group this, group this, group this. How to make sure that those two boxes are perfectly within this space. Okay, at first, I want to align them to top, so they are both at the same height, align to top. Now, I'll insert the shape here. Control the insert shape here. Those are my bouncers, and I'll click this, this, this and this, and I'll simply distribute them horizontally. This will make sure that the two objects in the middle are perfectly between them. Now I will just take them a little lower, and I'll select this and this. Let me align at first to the top side. Now you see why do I have the align features? Now align this like that. I'm completely confident and sure that we have beautiful consistent I think you can feel this, and I hope you've never worked like that in PowerPoint because this teaches you exactly how to position items. They are a bit too high right now. We could do the same with the top and bottom side, but I'll just eyeball it a little bit, put it more in the middle. And I think we created a very beautiful slide, very consistent with the presentation that we have so far. If I close the slides, I close the colors. I close the assets. You are creating a presentation that is very in line with its own design. Me continue to the next lecture, where we'll create a simple slide like this, and we will learn a couple new features each time. 23. 04-06. Picture Effects: In this lecture, I want to teach you how to create a break slide and how to work with images in PowerPoint. All right. Let us go to our work here section. Let's select a new slide, and let's start by adding a photograph. We could use Copilot or just go to insert pictures, stock images, and let's make something for office or laptop. I often use this keyword to bring some generic neutral images into the scene. Okay. Let's do something like that. Let's put it on the screen. Let us put it in the middle. And I want my presentation, my colors to be very consistent. This is why I'll go to picture format. At first, I want to crop it to the entire screen. Click on the picture, click on Crop, enlarge the crop, and you already know the trick, select fill. Okay, I'll position it a little higher. Now I'll take the picture, picture format, and from the corrections and colors because we don't have plenty of good features here, but from the color, I often use desaturation. This will make a black and white image. Why I do this is because if I would put a gradient directly if I put a gradient directly on top of it, the picture behind might change the gradient a little. But if you desaturate it from colors, it will look more consistent with our presentation. Okay, I'll take the image, and I don't need to actually see those people. I don't need to see the scene. I want to add an effect. To apply effects, you can go to picture format and you can go to picture format, and there are specific artistic effect dedicated to pictures, and they weren't upgraded in 300 years. But what's the most important one will be this one on the right side blur. I think blur is the most subtle, most often used and most professional looking because other ones, you can, of course, scroll through them. I'll select the blur. But I want to adjust the blur for that. I need to click on artistic Effects, artistic effect options, and it'll bring me to my formatting tab. On the formatting tab, you know you have the filling options, the effect options, the size options. And since this is a picture, you have picture specific options where you can corrections, color, and transparency and the crop. But this is the same that we have here just in more detail. We wanted to adjust the artistic effect, the radius. I'll increase the radius to something about 30 because this gives me a nicer, stronger blur, right. Now, I would like to overlay gradient above it. I'll take the gradient from the previous slide to be consistent or for the title slide. It depends which one you like the most. I'll paste it here, and I'll enlarge this shape. Now, this wouldn't be visible at all. What you can do, you can click on a given color within a gradient and you can increase its transparency. Then you can click on the second color, increase the transparency, and on the third color and increase the transparency further. Or as I see it, I think if I don't make this right side transparent, it gives me this really cool, very subtle effect that we have a picture in the background, but it isn't overwhelming. Next lecture, I would like to briefly create the icon in the middle so you don't get overwhelmed. For this lecture, your task is to add a photograph, desaturate it, as an artistic effect of blur to it and put a gradient above it. Make sure that the gradient will be partly transparent. See you in the next lecture once you complete this task. 24. 04-07. Icon Usage: In this lecture, I would like to finalize the design with you by using an icon and some information in the middle. Okay. For the text, you can take it from a previous slide, and this is the most convenient way to work. Just press Control C, select an entire box, press Control V. Let's take Let's take five. Let's be fancy here, and let's use this slangy wording, okay, make it a little bigger, and with my alignment tools, I'll put it in the middle. Now, I would like some kind of time icon here. I'll go to insert icons. I'll type in time. Of course, you can use third party websites for better icons because the Microsoft library is a little small, but those simple icons, those UI icons are always here, so don't worry about it. So they are completely okay to use. Do you want a time? Let's maybe make something different. Let's make this timer. Now, I'll make this bigger. I'll position it somewhere in the middle, so I see how it looks. And let's change its color, its outline, its fill color to white in my case. Okay? Do you want it like that, or do you want a negative space? Let me show you how you can achieve that. I'll select a rectangle. I chose a rounded rectangle. We could do something like that, maybe bring this object to front. I don't need to work with the positioning. I just select both middle, middle, now I can press Control G to group them, and I can position them in the middle. Again, this is always a hassle. This is why you always need those alignment tools. I'll make this smaller by pressing my shift key and Control key at the same time, I make it smaller from the middle point, ok? Control Shift G to ungroup it, and let's now see if I think this background is a little too strong. So what I'll do, I'll take this background. Go to shape format, shape Oline. You have no Oline already selected, no Oline, and maybe let's give it a gradient as well. But the gradient, I'll revert the gradient. Now I'll make the black on the left side and the red on the right side. Okay. I think this looks okay. This looks more consistent with the presentation than previously. And I'll take the black one, and I'll make the black part a bit transparent because I feel like this icon is a little bit too strong. I can take the red one as well and make it. Oh, it's already transparent. This is why I like the design. Okay. And this is enough. We did a bit different design than we did here, but I want to show you that once you have your color scheme, once you have all the tools ready and set, it's so nice to make different slides because everything will look consistent with each other. Think we did a little better than the original slide, so I'm very satisfied with that. Thank you for this lecture. I would like to continue with something completely unique and custom in the next lecture. Let's go for another custom slide design. Thank you and see you in the next lecture. 25. 04-08. Custom Paths: In this lecture, we will start to create a timeline like that. I promise that I'll teach you new features in each lecture. So let's try to do something completely custom and not everything can be done like that in PowerPoint, but this one I can show you and you can think for yourself, what will be the use case for it? Let me now go for a gradient for the background straightaway. I'll go to format background. I'll select a gradient, and we have already our gradient pre selected because we did it previously. I think this works very well, so let's continue on. Like this curved type of line to be created in PowerPoint. How do I make it with just PowerPoint shapes? Let me go to insert shapes and let me at first put a frame around the slide. I'm sometimes using the frame. Mostly, let me click on the yellow button. The yellow button allows you to adjust the sizes of frames of shapes. And I would like to make this smaller. I use the frame sometimes to position something perfectly in the middle. Now I'll try to create the line. Let's make this a bit smaller. Okay. Now we can go to the line. Insert shapes and use a custom shape called curve. Use curve and start in the left corner, start here, go here. Go to the bottom and finish in the right top corner. Double click on it. Now you can delete the frame. We are left with a shape like this. To better see it, I'll go to shape format, Shape Outline, and I'll select white. Now you see what we did. If I feel that this is a bit too wide, so I can right click and select Edit points, I can manually add the points by moving this a little bit to the right side, extending this a little bit, and maybe this extending a little bit as well. I would like this to be a tiny bit more rounded. I don't like that the left side is more rounded, so I'll right click on the point. And instead of a smooth point, I'll select a corner point. A corner point allows me to independently use the left side and the right side. So I want this to be a bit more circular. Okay, I clicked away. Again, right click Edit points. I want this to be a bit more circular. Okay, this is the shape. We can do adjustments further down the road. I want you to click on right click, select format shape, so the right panel opens and not the filling options but the line options. I want the line width to be very, very big, like 80 or 100. Let's go for 80. Okay? We have room for more 100. Beautiful. We have this very thick line. And you can see the corners are cut off. But what I very often like to do, I like to change the cap type to round. This gives you this beautiful rounded object. Now what you can do, you can just make it narrower. Make it narrow like that. Okay. And you see now the line isn't very perfect. So you can always, always, right, select Edit point, and you can adjust it a tiny bit. I'll move this a bit higher. Again, I'm always clicking this a little bit higher and this a bit more circular. Okay? I think this line will be perfect for our usage. I'll make this narrower again. And this is our main design, our main line. As you can see, I used a purple color. Let's go further within the design. Okay. I'll take the color and the line color, one of the purple ones. Okay, I would like to give it some shadow. So I will close now the line and filling to not confuse you. And let's go to the effect options. We can either select glow or shadow. Let me select shadow. At first, I'm always starting with the very first preset, just so you have a shadow. I decrease the transparency because I want to see the shadow, and now I can work with the size. So you see it better. Okay. You can see you clearly have a shadow around it. I'll increase the blur very heavily. Now I can decrease the size back again. The distance, I don't like any distance. I would like this to be a shadow around it. And do we want a black color? I think I want I kind of feel tempted to use our red just to see how it looks. Okay, a bit too intensive. Okay. Me go for the bright purple, and this seamlessly blends into the slide. In the next lecture, I would like to finalize the slide by creating this design. And trust me, this would be perfect for any kind of animations for an animated timeline. And you can see that PowerPoint isn't perfect with those curves, but it is possible to create shapes like this. Thank you very much for your attention in this lecture. Try to recreate a similar object and we will see each other in the next one. 26. 04-09. Shapes: A in this lecture, I would like to finalize this design with this kind of timeline elements. Okay. Let us get into the work. For the text boxes, we already created the textboxes previously, so let us save time and take it from this slide. Okay, we need to copy the entire group. Let's copy the entire group, Control C, and Control V this here. I press Control Shift G to ungroup in my case, and I'll delete the icon. Okay. What about the circle? How to make it consistent with the design that we have here? Insert shapes, insert the circle. Start to draw a circle, press shift to make it. A perfect equal circle. Okay, I'll position it in the beginning of this shape. Now, for the shape, outline, I want no outline. Okay, let us continue by changing the color to white. Okay? The shape is now white, and let's go to our effect shadow and maybe go for the outer shadow in the middle. The center shadow for the color, let's select the parable one so everything is consistent, and for the transparency, I'll reduce the transparency. I'll increase the little blur and we have some kind of soft shadow around this. Since we are going for this blurry effect, this should be fine. I will use this time the text box within it, but as you can see, I'm clicking on the shape and the text is invisible. You need to go to shape format, text fill, and change the text color, for example, to purple. Now you can go to home. You can increase the text while having this object selected or while having this text selected. Maybe bolden it if you want, or even use the heading font because we have two fonts here, the heading, the bigger one, and the regular font. I'll use the heading font and beautiful. We have one let's just go for one, two, three, four. One, two, three, four, like four different steps. You can see how simple it is to position on it, and for the text, I think that I want to center the text between them. I want to center the text. So a line center. Now, I want to make this a little bigger. I will make this bigger. PowerPoint is helping me with its guidelines. And because I have those guidelines, center the text. I have similar boxes here. Well, here I went a little bit too far. Okay? Beautiful. I have those boxes. I'll position them here, and I'll make sure that both text boxes are centered. Okay, beautiful. Now I could control D, and I could point different information into it. I can already see the animation. This would be really nice if the entire number would be flowing from the bottom, because I know that later on we will animate this possibly if this would be a presentation that I'm creating that surely would be the case, lPress Control G, Apress Control G, Control G, Control G. We need some kind of title, but this is no problem. We can take the text that we had previously Control C, Control via text, and timeline width for features. The last text, I think it's really I think the design looks very interesting. If we use one of the colors that we have here, okay, beautiful. I'll position this in center. I think I overdid it with the size, and that's it. This is the slide that we created. If you need this to be a little bit lower, just select everything. Use your arrow keys, and this is our slide design. I hope you are able to complete a slide design like that. Yourself, please go step by step. The most important part of this lecture is this little shape. And if you at any given point, don't like how it looks, rightly edit points and try to adjust the points a tiny little bit. It's very difficult in PowerPoint. I have to say, it's very difficult, so I do not often create custom shapes. But sometimes, if I know how to do something, I help myself with it. Thank you so much for listening. Let's see each other in another lecture. 27. 04-10. Mockups: In the upcoming lecture, I want to teach you how to make a mock up slide design. But the most important part is putting something inside the mockup, and I'll show you how to do this in PowerPoint. Let us start. Let me create a new slide. We will start our work. It can be on a white slide, and let's go to the assets and take this mockup and take our slide. This is a screenshot of the slide that we did. Okay, I'll put it on the screen and now how to make this screenshot to fit into this mockup. Those mockups can be downloaded online, phone mockups, computer mockups, any type of mockup. But I can see this picture, and well, it won't perfectly fit here. So what do you you can crop it using the merge shape functions. Let's click on the picture. Let's go to its filling options or even to its picture format. There we have transparency. We can increase the transparency, so you see this object behind it. Okay, we see this object. Now we would need to create shapes that will basically cut out the elements. So I'm pressing all two in my case, to insert quickly a rectangle. And I'll just rotate this rectangle, a little bit. If you can't get the rotation right, go to the sizing options, size, and here you can rotate it every one degree, okay? Three is too much. To would be okay. And I cannot see this line now. So my preference would be to make this shape, the filling of the shape transparent as well. This is a little bit advanced what I'm doing. I'll make the outline, and we will just duplicate this a couple of times. Okay. I'm putting this here. Now, I'm putting this on the right side. Okay, let me do this by hand. I put my what you need to do, you need to click and you start rotating. But if you are close, the rotation is a bit difficult, but if you put your mouse further away, it's a little bit easier. Okay? Okay, the rotation steps aren't helping me at all here in PowerPoint. Shape options, the rotation 358 would be okay. Alright, the top and bottom will be much, much simpler because we can simply make it like this. And this Control D, make it like this. Beautiful. Now I have four different shapes and the picture in the middle. Now I can again from the picture corrections, picture transparency, I'll reduce the picture transparency. Now I can select the picture. Object with my shift click. I'm pressing down on shift. Object one, two, three, four. All four elements are selected. Shape format, merge shapes, and just subtract them. Well, I see there's a slight problem here. I can press Control Z. I can put this just a bit further away. Again, select the pictures, one, two, three. Four, shape format, merge shapes and subtract. Beautiful. Now I have this object perfectly aligned with a mockup or at least good enough. The rounded corners could be made as well, but it would be too much hassle and no one will see the difference. If you want to be professional, you need to try to make things to look as good as they can. I'll take both of them. I'll press Control G. Now I can freely resize this, put this in the middle, and this will be the base, the most important part of our slide. In the next lecture, I would like to continue the design by creating something like that. 28. 04-11. Vector Points: In this lecture, we'll continue the design to achieve something similar to this. Now, let us divide the slide on the left side and the right side. Do you want to use a gradient or do you want to use a solid color? Let me select a gradient. I really enjoy those gradients here. I'll paste it here, I'll right click and send this to back. Okay. This is the left side of my slide. The monitor is perfectly in the center. I'll make sure with my alignment that this is the case. I wanted a custom shape here and here to be in the corners in order to create such custom shapes. You can go for very normal regular rectangles and you can edit their points. You can right click, select Edit points, but you are left with this. What I'm often doing is placing my mouse perfectly on the line, right, click. At point, right, click, add point, right, click, add point. I have a couple of points, and now I can make this well, let's say unique shape. At least it's not a shape that is normally available in PowerPoint. I'll adjust it a tiny bit. And if there is too much points, you can just right click and select the lead point. Now, this would be some kind of flowy design here on the corner just so you don't have this much empty space. Now, I have used some text. Again, let's copy it from another slide. I'll put the text on the right side. I make sure the text is black, so we see it. With my shortcuts, I make the text smaller. And we had something like best PowerPoint. Course. Okay, simple text. We could add some color to it, for example, this one to make it a bit different. Let's go for the red. Let's make it in the normal font, so it stands a little bit out from the entire design. Okay, as for the left side, it depends whether you want animations, whether you want such elements. What I did, I just added three textboxes. I'll copy the textboxes because it's not relevant to insert that many textboxes and teach you how to write inside of them. I think you know by now how to do this. For the lines, this is however a bit more important. Insert shapes and lines are very important because lines allow you to be connected to those shapes, but you don't always want that. Why do you not always want that? Let me connect this and put a line like here. Shape line. Wait. Let me make it big six points, so you see it. Shape line for the color, I'll go red. So you also see it. Now, if I move this, the line moves as well because it is connected, and I'm not the biggest fan of it. Sometimes I use it, sometimes not, but I prefer it to be disconnected, like that. Boom, I'll press Control D, and I want it to go behind the monitor. How to do this, I think you already know you can either click on the monitor. And bring it to front. I have my shortcut here. I'll start to use the shortcut, and now the monitor is in front. Now I could click on the lines and I could position them so everything looks consistent and understandable. Of course, the text would need to be a bit adjusted. You have to not click on the text. You have to click on the corner. Now you can move this around and beautiful. We made a design that is very similar to the design that we did previously, a bit different colors. We used a gradient. If you want this shape, you can duplicate it. Shape format, shape Oline, Let me select no Outline Control D. I could put it here. I could give this shape a gradient. Let maybe see how that looks. Okay, a gradient is a bit too much for my taste. I'll go for the red color here. Let's see if that looks good. I think it looks not bad, but I think it is also too much since we have a gradient here. Thank you so much for listening to this lecture. Please try to create a design like this, especially the custom shapes, and this mockup here. The mock up here in the middle is the most important part. Thank you and see you in the next one. 29. 04-12. Presentation Ending: In this lecture, I would like to create an exit slide from our presentation. The main focus like visual point will be those chairs. Let's start designing. I'll create a new slide. And often I tend to make my ending slides just like the opening slide. Let us go right format background, or you can click on Design. Here on the right side, you have the format background feature as well. Format background and go for a dark black background. From the assets, let us use this picture. Okay, let's put this picture here in the middle and let's try to do something similar, but maybe different than the design I showed you. I'll make this bigger, and we need to crop this definitely. I want to go to picture format, crop and let's crop it similarly to what we had there. I think the smaller chairs will look a little better. Okay? Two rows of them crop. Okay, we have the base layout of our design. Here we could say, thank you. Here could be some contact information or whatever you prefer. Since here on these icons, we had this red element, let me maybe take a circle, double click on it, Control C, and let's put it here as well to continue the design and just see how that looks. If this won't work, I will just skip it. Okay? I'll make this just peek out. It looks a little bit too Japanese to me, but maybe it works with the design. Let us see whether we add a gradient here or not. Enjoy the experience. This is the text that we want. Okay, for the bottom, let us use some text. I'll take a text, enjoy it. Enjoy the experience. Let me know. If I will be the presenter, I would probably ask people. Let me go for a white color. Let me make this much bigger, and let me go for our headings font. Okay? I want this even bigger, right? Enjoy the experience. And now for the secondary text, I want either the red color or the purple. For the text color purple. The red. Yeah, the red definitely stands out more. You could possibly use a gradient for that as well. You can do this by right clicking, going to form a shape, selecting the text. And instead of shape options, you have text options because each single shape in PowerPoint has its shape options and text options. From the text options, I want to use a gradient, and here I will get rid of the black. I'll go between purple and red. Let's make the purple further down. Here on the textbook sizing options, you can increase or decrease the margin. So if you don't want the margin on the left side, you would like this to be perfectly aligned to the left side, you can delete the left margin altogether. Okay. I'm not a fan of that, but I just wanted to show you the possibilities of the gradient color. I also am not a fan of this object. Either I delete this or I change it to the gradient that we are using. Okay, let's make a gradient. I'll take the first part of the gradient and I make it transparent, a little bit transparent, then the purple a bit transparent as well. Okay? Now I maybe like this a bit more. Here, I would like some kind of icon for a call to action. Let me create the rest of the slide in the next lecture. You can decide for yourself if you like this design, and if not, we will do some adjustment once we finish everything. See you in a moment. 30. 04-13. Contact Button: Let me continue the design by putting something here and something on the right side to not stay empty with it. We could, for example, repeat the title of our presentation. The title of our presentation is Learn PowerPoint, Okay, not very sophisticated, but let's put it here, so people remind themselves of what they are actually watching. And definitely this should be much, much, much, much, much smaller. I just want some kind of closure here on the right side. Earn PowerPoint, let me add a shape and maybe a different shape. So you learn something about different shapes. I like to use this shape if I have some kind of division. This shape allows me to make it like that, make it smaller. Okay? And I have a beautiful line dividing me two objects with each other. You can zoom in here on the right bottom corner or by pressing your left control key and your mouse wheel. I very often zoom into my slide. Okay, let me make this a bit more narrow. Shape outline. No Oline shape fill. Let's make the red one. Okay, I made it a bit a bit too much. Okay. I just wanted a small, small dash. Okay? Learn PowerPoint maybe here in the secondary text was thank you or online course or something like that. Learn PowerPoint. Thank you. For the color, we already have this red selected. I just position the text how you prefer. And we created this nice little closure. I can select all of them. I can put them a bit further away, and I can press Control G in case I want to move them around. Now, for some kind of contact information, let's create a shape It can be rectangle with those diagonal corners. The corners can be adjusted either here or with the second object to make this rounded. You can make the roundness as you prefer. For example, here, a stronger one and here a little less one. Okay? This would need to be positioned also properly. Contact us or thank you or something else. So we finalize this slide, make it bigger, make it the heading fun and consider whether we want this to be a gradient. Because we had the gradient previously like that, I don't like this gradient very much. I like the previous gradient, this one. So I'll take this Control C, Control V. And do you remember we can format the painter over. Sadly, it paints also the text over, but I really like this design, so it's not a big problem to make the text bigger again. Contact us. I really like this gradient. So I'll format paint this to this object as well. I'll rotate this object, so the gradient shows a bit different. And now we are finalized with the design. If you feel that this is too much, you can just if you feel like this is too big, you can always make this smaller. Please remember that you can always make tiny adjustments at the end. We made a slide very similar to the design that we did here. I think the purple looks a bit better here, but that's no problem. But you know that you can at any given point, go here and change it to a purple that you want. Make sure that if you select something and change its color, that people will be still able to see it. Thank you for trying to create this light. I hope you made a very similar design. Please try it out yourself, and we see each other in another lecture. 31. 05-01. Introduction: Hello. In this section, we are going to talk about animations, and we won't only learn what are animations, what types of animations are available on PowerPoint, but we will apply them to a real project, for example, such a infographic or a timeline. So you can practice on a real world example, and you will be capable of animating any slide that you want. 32. 05-02. Animations: In the first lecture, we will apply different animations to the objects in front of us. If you have the resource file open, please open the first section and let us start. Explore the animation step. The animation step gives you all the animations that are available in PowerPoint here on the top side. With this arrow, you can preview a couple of them. Well, the most used one. And here on the bottom, if you select more entrance, emphasis or exit effect or more motions pads, it gives you all the animations available in PowerPoint. It isn't as much, so I will recommend to click on an object and preview all of them. The right side of the animation tab, we can add one animation on top of the other so an object can have multiple animations. We will talk about that later and we can open the animation pane, which just like the selection pane shows you all the animations. Okay, we will understand everything once we actually work. Apply and preview an entrance, emphasis and exit animation. Work on that. Let's click on the first object. Once an object is selected, animations become available. Let's, for example, select Grow and Turn. You can use a different animation. Now I want to select the second object. Click on animations and select an emphasis animation. I will go for maybe Grow shrink. So it grows towards us. Now the third one will be the exit animation. And I'll click on this. I'll open the animations, and the red animations are the exit animations. Let's select wheel. Sometimes you have multiple objects on a slide and you want them to disappear one after another. This is when you use exit animations. Okay, I'll select the second task as complete because we applied different animations here. Understand when an animation icon is displayed and what it represents the moment you add animations to your slide. Here on the left side, there will be this star informing you that there are animations present on the slide. Additionally, you have a number here. You can see this object has number one, this number two, this number three. This means this represents the mouse click when the animation appears. So the first animation appears with mouse click number one, number two and number three. If I press shift a five to play the presentation and I click my mouse the first time, second time and the third time, all three animations will be played. It's important that you know that those numbers are only displayed if the animation pane is open, because if I go, for example, to the draw tab, the home tab to the insert tab, they are no longer here. But when I go back to animations, they appear. They will be always visible the moment you open the animation pane, because when the animation pane is open and it shows the animations that we have here, even if you click away, the numbers are still displayed. Okay. So we understood when those numbers are displayed here. Familiarize yourself with the animation pane. Well, the animation pain isn't complicated. We can enlarge it, and we have all three animations here. In a second, we will change the type of animation and go further into the animation pane. Here, I wanted to show you that you can change the position of the animations. Change the durations and change their type. I'll explain the types in a second. You can start with previous after previous, but that will come later. Okay, change the duration and delay of an animation. Okay, I showed you that you can let me go to the animation step. Let's go for the first object. You can click here and extend the duration, but it's a bit inconvenient. So what I like to do, I like to work here on the top side with the duration and the delay. So I can delay this by 1 second and give it 2 seconds of delay. This will mean let me play the presentation. Once I click on my mouse, it will wait 1 second. Then the animation will play for two whole second. Okay, click one, one, two. Okay. This entire sequence took 3 seconds to play. So you need to be very mindful when you play with animations. The longer you make them, the longer it will take on your actual presentation. Those are the basics about animations. This sets our fundamental knowledge. We can move forward from here. 33. 05-03. On Click: In this lecture, we are going to learn the three types of animations that we can apply in PowerPoint. For that, go to animations and open the animation pane. So let us do the first task. Apply an animation to all objects. The quickest way to do this is to select all the objects by clicking and dragging, have all of them selected at once, and just press on an animation. Let me go to Zoom. All right. As you can see here on the right side, we have one mouse click. That will reveal all the animations one after another. I want to change the animation type to on click. One of the three main animation types. You can right click at any given place and select start on click and select start on click. Because all animations were selected, it will be applied to each animation separately. Now we have six different clicks. As you can see on this slide, because the numbers we have two, three, one, six, four, five, I wanted to have it one, two, three, four, five, six, obviously. So I need to select the first object. I need to see which animation it is. It is the second one, so I'll drag it to the first place. Now, this is number one. This one should be number two. I'll drag it to number two. And this way, you can organize your animations. This should be four. Okay? Four, this is five. This is okay, and this is six. If you play this presentation with shift a five, each single click now would go from one animation to the other. Let me show you how you can do this on a Mac device. In case you work on a Mac, you can also select all objects at once. You can apply an animation. It looks a tiny bit different here. Let me apply strips, and on the right side, you can see everything will happen with the first mouse click. You can either click on Start and select on click here. Or you can open the timing options, and within the timing option, you have also on click with previous and after previous, just like on the Windows version. Here you can also change the duration. This is the onclick animation. In the next lecture, I would like to talk about with previous animation. Let's go there. 34. 05-04. With Previous: The second part will be about with previous animation. Apply an animation to all objects. Okay, let me select all object, and let's apply a swivel effect. It's a bit weird of an effect, but let's go for it. Now, change the animation with previous. I will select the first animation. I will shift click and click on the last animation and select right click with previous. This will mean that everything will start at once. If you play the presentation, you can see everything starts together. Okay. Consider adding a delay. When you use Wood previews, you should maybe group them and give them some kind of delay. Okay, this is animation number two and three. This is animation number one and six. Okay, I'll take the sixth one. I'll put it here, and I'll select both of them and give them delay. You know what? I prefer if they are in the so I don't get confused. I'll delay them by 1 second. And the last two, I'll delay them by another second one and two. Okay. This way, I staggered the animations to happen after 1 second. Let me play this, but I don't need to click my mouse. I don't need to do anything. Every time you need something to happen automatically, you use with previous. I've added a delay. All right. Now the last one is after previous. After previous is a little bit odd because let me again apply an animation to all the shapes, I'll select split, and I'll increase the duration of the animation to 2 seconds. Change the animation to after previous. After previous the third one shows with an icon of a clock here, and the next animation will not play until the previous one has finished. I don't like that. I see this as a limitation because I would like, for example, the second animation to already start when this is finishing up, not wait until it ends. So I don't like the after previous feature. I very, very, very often, select all the animations. I select with previous and I delay them a little bit, so they overlap each other. This looks a bit more smooth and a bit more fluent for our slide. If you play this, you can see what happens. Of course, the animation isn't pretty, but I wanted to show you what happens when you select after previous and what happens when you select with previous. I think this is understandable. We'll work with that on a real project very soon, so you will be able to put everything into practice. Thank you so much for listening here, and let us continue to the next lecture. 35. 05-05. Animation Effects: In this lecture, we will talk about the effect options that are available for certain animations. Okay. Our first task is to add in a fly animation. I can select all three objects, and I can select fly in. Let me select each fly in to be with a mouse click. I'll right click and select on click. Now I have three different mouse clicks. I'll click on the first one, and you can see effect options became available. And this is animation specific. For example, this fly in animation, when we click on the effect options, we can change the direction from which the animation comes. Example, let us fly in from left. I'll select from left. I would select the second one to be from right and the last one to be from left as well. The result would be change affections right from left as preferred. When I click, it comes from the left, from the right, from the left. All right. Let me select the second one. Let me double click on the animation. And when you go to the effect options, some of the animations, not all of them, but some of the animations can have a smooth start, smooth end or bounce at the end. You select a smooth start, it will start slower and then come a little bit faster into this slide. Let me press Okay. It starts Well, we can't really see it because the animation is rather short. I'll extend the duration to 1.5 seconds. I will now select the last animation, double click on it, and from the effect, either select a smooth start or give it a bit of a bounce at the end. I'll give it a bit because if you go too high here, it will bounce very strongly. Okay you can see there's a slight bounce at the end. Because I did change both the effect options and the animation smoting, this would be my result. The first animation would be a regular fly in the same speed the entire time. The second one was starting a little slower. You can see it was peaking here and then it flew into the screen. And the last one will have this tiny bounce at the end. Those are just some features we can achieve here. Let me show you a different one. For example, here, I will apply a fate animation. Let me select all the text. I'll select fate animation, and we have no effect options to the fate basically, other than to treat the text as one object, all at once, or by paragraph because those are one sentences, this will make no change. I'll take the first one. Again, let me extend the duration, and let's select everything with previous. Now, the first one will be a normal fate animation. The second one but from the effects, instead of animating the text all at once, I'll animate it by word. And I'll delay the animation by maybe 5%. You can see now every word is animated separately. It makes the animation a little longer, but it looks that much nicer. Let me select the last one and select by letter. I select B letter, and I strongly recommend that you go for a low percentage because else, the animation will take very long, okay? You can see now it very seamlessly animates, and this is the strongest point of the fate animation. If I go Shift a five, oh, sorry, I wanted everything to happen with click, so I show you this. The first one will be a completely normal fate. Fate. The second one will fade word by word. It is very seamless because the animation is rather quick, and here we'll animate by letter. It goes even more seamless like that. Okay, beautiful. This is what I wanted you to learn in this lecture before we move forward that some of the animations have effect options. For example, if you go for wheel, you can decide whether the effect goes for one spoke or for more of them. When you go for a wipe, you can select from which site it will wipe in. And additionally, animations have their effect options once you double click on them. Not all of them, but most of them will do have those smoothing options. Thank you. And let us now go to a real life project. 36. 05-06. Animating: In this lecture, we'll make a real professional project. Let us animate this slide, this infographic in that way. And I want you to be confidently doing that each single time you face something that you want to have animated to your preference. Okay, let us start. Let's go to the slide where it says work here. Note, if you want to make it easier, remove half of the elements. Yeah. If you are just starting out with PowerPoint, then I recommend that you, for example, delete this and delete this and everything becomes a bit simpler. But if you've already worked in PowerPoint previously, then you can go for all the elements. Now, group everything for ease of use. I want to animate, I press Control A to show me all the elements here, and I see, now, this is a separate element. This is a separate element. I would like this to be together. So I'll group this. I'll just select Control G, Control G, Control G, Control G. All right. Now, those are separate objects. Now, the text, is the text grouped? Okay. We have the text already grouped. Now this icon in the middle it seems grouped. Everything seems to be prepared. So let us start. Add a fly in to the text boxes. I think that the text boxes could have a fly in. I will click on the first one. I will select fly in and definitely I want the fly in to happen from the left side. Effect options from left. Beautiful. Now I'll select this box. Animation painter paint this to the second one. Effect Options this time from right. Animation painter further down we have already from right and animation painter to the last one and change the effect options from left. Now I have four different clicks, four different mouse clicks. Let's start one, two, three, four. Okay, this is actually third. So let me place this below it. So this is one, two, three, four. Now let's work on the boxes. There's a very nice animation, and I prefer that you click here. You select more entrance effects and you preview all the animations while having something selected. But I know that for something like that, if you want to reveal something, peek in is perfect. As you can see, it will peek in from behind the scene. Okay, I'll select Okay. And this peek in should be together with the first object. I'll right click and select with previews. I want this text and this box to kind of reveal themselves simultaneously. Okay, I'm adding make adjustments from left, smooth out. We didn't do the smooth out. Use animation painter to paint animations over. And animate the middle ****. Okay, we are animating the middle cox now. We selected Pekin. I'll select animation painter. Number two, can have pecan as well. And I'm making sure that I place it behind the second mouse click, Animation painter to the third one. Oh, by mistake, I animated the icon. I need to be very precise here. Animation painter, click further away. Okay, now this one, and I need to change the effect options of this pecan. Effect options, not from bottom, this time from top. This will look better. Place it behind the third mouse click and the last one, animation painter. Okay. We have this beautiful peek in. The last things I was doing, I selected the text boxes. I pressed fade, and they can happen at the very, very beginning. I'll put them to the beginning before even any mouse click happens. I want to right click and select with preview. I think we animated everything correctly. I would prefer if we put some kind of delays. For example, you can select the first one. Control click group number two, group number four, group number three, give them a lay and extend the duration, and I think we are done with the animation. If I press Shift a five to play from this slide, the animation happens at first for the text, I should animate the icon as well, but we can adjust that. Click Number one, click Number two, click number three, click number four. This is what I would like you to achieve. Please remember if this is too much, just delete half of the elements, delete the icon, and you are good to go. For the icon, I'll go for a fate. I'll go for with preview, and I'll put it into the first group because I don't want the icon to be displayed. Okay, now it's your turn, please try to animate this. 37. 05-07. Animating Timeline: This will be our next real life project. The end result I'd like to achieve is that with each mouse click, one part of the timeline appears, and I will show you now everything step by step, how you can approach such animations, how you even start working on them. The way I would work on them, I would start with the first part, the first part of it, and then I would slowly paint that over to other objects, and I would test this slide multiple times while creating it. Okay, Note if this is too much for you, just delete most of the elements. This will make it easier for you to animate. Okay. Group everything for ease of use. Now, let me press Control A again, let me just see what's going on. I can see we have this already grouped, beautiful. Now, this text is separate and this object is separate. I think we can group, for example, the text and this one. So we will have only the textboxes, the icon, and this to animate. We already made ourselves little bit less work. Okay. I'll click on this, shift, click on the next one. Group. I'll click on this, Shift click on the object, group. Okay. Now we have fewer groups to work with. I will start with the textbox. We group. Apply the first round of animation. Okay, I will start with the textbox. The perfect animation for such a textbox would be floating because it nicely flows in from the bottom. For those types of icons, I very often use a Zoom effect. And we have basically two Zoom effects in PowerPoint. Let me go to more entrance effects. We Zoom and the basic Zoom. I like the basic Zoom because it goes very cleanly outside of the middle point. You can, of course, change this to be from the screen center, but I prefer it that way. I don't want any mouse clicks between them, but I'll adjust it in a second. Now the last object, every time I got some type of line, I go for a wipe animation because with the wipe animation, you can select it to be from the left side. This will beautifully animate it from left to right. And in my opinion, this is far too quick. I want those three animations to happen automatically with the first mouse clicks. So I select the last two, I select with previous, and now I can adjust the timings and the delays. The second animation was the icon. Well, the icon, I will extend the duration to 1 second, and I will delay it slightly. Now the last one is the line. I'll do the same. I'll just increase the duration to 1 second, and I will delay them slightly. If I select the first animation and I select PlayF well, I think no delay is needed. I overdid it with the delay. Let me preview that again. Okay, beautiful. The text comes first, and then with very little delay, the icon and the object. Now, we can start to paint things forward. I'll take the text. I'll take my animation painter, and I'll paint it to the text. I know that all the text boxes will be with a mouse click, so I can just continue animation painter, boom, animation painter, boom, animation painter, boom. Alright. I recommend that you press shift a five to preview what is happening. The first mouse click animate the first three objects. The further mouse click will animate this textbox, this textbox, this text O and this textbox. Okay. I would prefer if this effect options would be floating down and if this would be floating down as well. Now I need to move this animation and copy it forward. Animation painter, boom, because it's now a separate animation. I'll put it behind the second mouse click. You need to remember where you want to put it. The problem is, the moment I put it behind the mouse click, the delay gets deleted, so I can manually click on the delay or do this in bulk later. Let me do this later, animation painter, boom, animation painter boom, and animation painter boom. Okay, put it behind the third, the fourth. If you want, you can click Control. Click, click, click and give all of them a delay at once. This way, I can press Shift a five to see what's happening. Okay? We are slowly getting there. The last thing would be to animate the line. And you already know how to do this. You can select the first one Animation painter. Click Animation painter, click, Animation painter, click and animation painter, click. Now it would be a matter of putting everything group two, three, four, five. It would be very convenient if we named this, for example, red line, purple line, but I didn't I wanted to show you a real case scenario and 90% of the time when I animate when I create slides, I do it like that. Because we have food previews, it automatically got the delay already. Now the animation is finished. My first mouse click, my second mouse click, my third mouse click will animate the timeline forward. I think you get what's going on here. I hope you will be able to create this animation as well. Please try to replicate those steps to at least two of those objects. 38. 05-08. Multiple Animations: In this lecture, I would like to show you how to make multiple animations on one object, both on Windows and on Mac. Let me press Shift a five. We have three informations here, and the first mouse click will make this object appear, and the next click will make it disappear. Sometimes it's very useful to have those kind of animations, and this is why adding multiple animations to one object exists. To make this a bit quicker and simpler, let me delete most of them. Let me just work on one object in the middle because you could paint the animation over if you wanted to. Okay, at first, we need an entrance animation. Us, for example, go for maybe not flying because we have this blue object. Let's go for split. Okay. You can see this is mouseClick number one. On Windows, you can select at animation and add an animation on top of it. For example, pulse. So it pulses us forward a little. Now this is mouseClick number one and mouselick number two. I'll right click and select with previews. And give it some delay, for example, 1 second. What this will do when the animation plays, when I click my mouse, this object will be split, and after 1 second, it will pause a little bit forward. I would like this to disappear from the screen with my next mouse click. So what I do, I go to d animation, and now I go for this red exit animation, and I'll select a faith. There's a simple fade off. It fades off when I click my mouse the second time. If you would like to explore the motion path, there are a bit difficult in PowerPoint, but I'll add an animation and I'll add a line animation on top of it, so it starts moving out. The line animation, right click with previous and let me reduce the duration to seven to 1 second, and let's increase the exit animation to 1 second as well. The animation allows you to put this object somewhere else or use the predefined down left right up. Let maybe select up, so it goes up. Let me decrease the duration and look what happens. The moment I click my mouse, we have the entrance animation and the pulls forward. The moment I click my mouse the second time in a second, it will disappear and move upwards. So this could be a very cool animation that we did. For example, if this would be a bit bigger, I could double click on the animation and give it a smooth end. It would be a very, very nice fade off going in and fading off here. For that, we used a line animation. Let me very briefly show you that on a Mac version, because here it's different. Here, you just need to click on another animation. Let's, for example, select random bars, click on this object, and now you can click on a different one, for example, a spin. Now I'll select an exit animation, for example, checkerboard, and you can see I have three different mouse clicks. Of course, I could take the second one. I could go for a delay, but it's not visually represented like in PowerPoint for Windows, and I'll select with previous I will give you a delay of 1 second, and playing this animation would show you that we have different animations on this object. It will now disappear. Thank you very much for listening. On the Mac version, we don't use add animation. We simply click on another animation, and it becomes the next one added in line. You need to click away from the object. You need to select another one, and this way, you can add multiple animations to one object. Thank you so much for listing, both for the Windows and PowerPoint versions. I hope you will be able to replicate that. 39. 05-09. Animating Sldies: This lecture will be your final test when it comes to animations. You should be doing this independently from my instructions. You should be capable of opening this slide and thinking about the animations that you would like to apply here. I will guide you, of course, through it. But what I want to achieve with this slide is to bring the icon separately and animate this bottom line separately. Let's go to work. If I would have a slide like that and someone told me, Please animate it. I'm immediately seeing I want to animate this separately or maybe the text, and I would like to animate this separately. Now, do we want this on one go like a group, or this time, I'll go the other way around. Control Shift G to ungroup it because I would like to animate this line and this object separately. For that, I have ungrouped this. I can group, shift click this and shift click. This can be one group, right click, send two back. This could be one group, and the percentage and this box here, this object would be a separate thing. Okay, animate the icon with multiple animations. Now, let me take the icon. The icon would be beautiful with a fly in. But it would be beautiful when it fles from the right side. And it would be beautiful if this fling takes a bit longer. I'll double click on it, the effect options, and I'll increase the smooth end to a maximum amount. Now, this is a beautiful smooth animation from this icon. I'll add an animation on top of it, and for example, the teeter it moves to the left and to the right. The teeter can very well happen when the animation moves into the screen. I'll add another teeter on top of it. I want it to move plenty of times. Okay, two times will be the charm. Let me play. I don't need a mouse click with previous. Let us play what happens. Okay, we have this beautiful moving of this icon. This is enough. For the text, let's go for something simple here. I'll go for a wipe or maybe strips, so you know something different. It's not about KFC strips. Let's go for strips. Okay? From the right side, I very like this animation when it goes from one side, and then for the text, I'll do the same with more entrance effect, strips again, but this time from the left top side effect options, write down. And this effect options has left it down. Beautiful. I can have the text right click with previous. This again, no mouse click. I don't need any mouse click with previous, and I prefer to have the text at the very beginning because I selected with previous, I wanted to be with the previous animation that was already delayed. So I'll take the text here. I'll shift both text boxes. I'll increase the duration. I'll take the second text, and I'll delay it slightly. I could copy over the animation. I don't need to have more of them animation painter, this one as well. Now, let me put it back at the text. It's a bit messy sometimes. Let me place the delay, and let's see what happens now. Okay, everything is beautifully animated. Now, this object will be the last one. I think the object can be here just the percentage fade and this should be a mouse click. And for this line, you can probably imagine that I'll go for wipe, but not wiping from bottom, wiping from left to right. Beautiful, like that. I don't need the second one to be on Mouse click. I'll right click. With previous, I'll take both animations. I'll increase their duration, and I think we are done. Of course, we could also animate this pink box, but I don't want to overwhelm you with animations. I achieved my result, my desired result. Maybe I'll even take this icon and I'll delay it a bit. Let us play the slide. Okay? The text and the icon come in. Okay, and as I see it now, I think this shouldn't be visible here at first. So I'll take this object. It can be even a simple flate but let me put it here as the first mouse click and maybe this the second mouse click. Okay, I I would be explaining this slide, Oh, this line wasn't grouped, but that's a minor mistake. If I would explain this slide, I would probably read the information first. Then I would click to tell you, please take a look at the customer retention rate that we were able to achieve. With my next mouse click, the bar fills up, and it makes it easier for me to explain the slide and the information that is presented. This is what I want you to practice. I want you to try, please try to approach a complete full slide design because this is probably what you will be doing when using PowerPoint. 40. 05-10. Transitions: Here, I would like to briefly touch on transitions and PowerPoint. Transitions aren't animations per se, but they are animations between two slides. If I play this presently, we have four different slides here. If I play those slides and I move my mouse forward, there is nothing animated here, you just go to the next slide. But if you at least select the first one, shift kick the last slide. If you at least go to transitions and select for example, a fade, I already looks a little bit nicer because here I would have a very clean fade between those slides. Those are transitions, and there are different transitions in PowerPoint. Morph is a very advanced transition that allows you to animate, but all the other ones are simple transitions. For example, the push transition can push the slide in a given direction. You can go to the next slide, go for push as well. And the same like in animations, we have effect options where we can change some of their features. For example, here, because the pumpkin is on the top side, I think a push from top side would look very nice. I'll change it from top yeah, because this image flies into the screen, the push transition from top looks very good. What's very, very important to remember transitions have their timing. If you increase the duration of the transition to 3 seconds, let me go for the previous slide. It will now take 3 seconds before it starts the next slide. So be very mindful the timings that you choose. Also, it's very important that you have on mouse click selected because the moment you select after a given amount of seconds, it will go to the next slide after the specified number of seconds unless there are animations. Okay, let me see what I mean. Let me go for 3 seconds. You can see no, no, one, two, three. After 3 seconds, no matter if you click your mouse or not, it will go to the next slide. So you need to be very careful to have After selected. If you deselect it, it will wait forever. Let me decrease the duration of the transition. Now it will wait forever until I click my mouse. When I click my mouse, it will go to the next slide. So it's a bit weird because if you have both selected, the first one is overwritten. But if you have only the first one selected, it will wait for your mouse click. The only way the slide, and this is very important if you have animations on a slide. Let's, for example, say that I go for animations. I have a fate animation here, a fate animation here, a fate animation here, I have different animations on this slide. We have mouse clicks, and we want to explain this slide with our mouse click. And you assume that the slide will wait until you click your mouse. When you click my mouse the second time, the text will appear. But if you would have selected after 3 seconds, it will no longer respect your mouse clicks. It will end the slide as soon as animations end. Even if I go for 5 seconds of delay, then after 5 seconds, once the animation finishes, it goes immediately to the next slide. Let me show you this. This slide will take half a second to be introduced and 4.5 seconds to complete the last animation or 4.5 plus half a second. So after 5 seconds, this slide is done. Okay? It introduces itself one, two, three, four, five. It will now go to the next slide immediately as the animation happens. Be very mindful when working with transitions at different transitions, play with them around, take a look which are available in PowerPoint. There isn't too much, and you will know how to apply them. Most often, in my presentations, I go for one consistent transition between the slides. 41. 06-01. Zoom: In this section, we will talk about two unique features about PowerPoint. That is the Zoom and Morph. At first, please open the project file that is called Zoom. Here, I want you to insert three slides for the Zoom feature. On the left side, we have three different slides within this section. Please take slide number two, slide number three, and slide number four. And put it on the slide. As you can see, those are shortcuts to the given slide that we entered. Those are called Zooms. Why are they called Zooms? Because if I start my presentation, I can click on any of those slides to Zoom into them. Then I can get back to the main slide. This creates unique opportunities for creating animations. This feature was added in PowerPoint 2019. So if you have that version or a newer one, you will have access to it. Zoom allows you to jump from one slide to the other. However, if this is slide number one, and this is slide number three, be aware that if you click on slide number one, it will just continue your presentation. So sometimes because of the Zoom, if you, for example, have 60 slide, and then you put slide number 25 here and number 28 here. If you click on the Zoom for slide number 25, it will continue your presentation from slide 25. So you need to be very careful because if you have big presentations and you want to use Zoom, sometimes it gets out of hand. For that very reason, PowerPoint allows you to click on Zoom and select a feature called return to Zoom. When you click on a slide and select Return to Zoom, return to Zoom. Return to Zoom. When you click on this Zoomed in slide, when you click forward, it will bring you back to the main original slide where you clicked it on. This is to prevent jumping inside your presentation towards different areas. This is the basic overview how the Zoom feature works. It's nothing special, it's nothing complicated. You can insert Zoom either by dragging a slide onto your presentation or by pressing insert. Here you have Zoom and you have a summary zoom, a section Zoom, and a slide Zoom. Slide Zoom allows you to insert separate slide. A section Zoom just takes the first slide from each of your sections. In the next lecture, I would like to show you two real case scenarios how Zoom is usually used. See you in the upcoming lectures. 42. 06-02. Zoom usage: In this lecture, I would like to show you a real case scenario of how you can potentially use Zoom in your presentation. Let's say that you have a major big slide explaining an idea, and you would like to go into the smaller ideas, but you didn't have enough space to put all the designs here. This is can use Zoom. You can make designs on separate slides like I did here. I did separate designs. This is about some books about the best seller, hidden secrets of literature, some statistics, and I would like to bring everything here. So I will just take slide number six, seven, eight, and nine and put it here. What you can do, you can, of course, select all those slides. You can make them a little smaller and you can place them here. The advantage will be that I'll be able to zoom into their separate slide. Sometimes you don't like the design of it because it might be too much, but this is how Zoom works. This would allow me to start to present this presentation, go into each slide and explain you the details, and then with my left mouse click to go back into the original slide. Alternatively, I can go to Zoom and select return to Zoom. One other feature that I haven't talked about because I wanted to show you this in this lecture is Zoom background. Here on the right side, I can select or deselect for the background to be Zoom. Let's assume that slide number seven has a dark background. I'll go to format background and I'll give it a red background. Looks horrible, but you can see it is now a little bit out of place when it comes to this design. What you can do, you can click on Zoom and make this background transparent. However, those objects here, remember that they should be visible. Because I made this background transparent, it will use the background that is on this slide. Let me show this to you. Let's say that this is a yellow slide. I'll start the presentation. Even though this was red, this was a slide with a red background, I selected it to not use the background from the original slide. It will have this yellow background because I made its background transparent. So it is using the background that we specified here. Well, I kind of like the yellow color. I will keep it. I could do this for all of the Zooms here. I could select I would need to click on them separately, Zoom background, Zoom Zoom background, and this already looks a tiny bit more consistent with the actual background that we have selected here. So please be mindful that you can go either way, either use the background that you have here or make this background transparent. But sometimes it makes the remaining items look a bit different or weird. So you need to be very aware of how you want to use it. This is a real case scenario of how Zoom is used in presentations in the next lecture like to show you another example of that, where we can change the actual designs here. 43. 06-03. Zoom Usage Pt. 2: In this lecture, I would like to show you how you can replace the designs of the slides with another design. If you open the resources for the Zoom and Morph section, I created three different objects. I designed those objects to be representations of slides that I created in one go. Okay, let me show you how you can do this. You will insert Zooms, the three slide Zooms. But if I play this presentation, well, I wanted to have three informations here that go into deeper explanations once I click on the slides, but I don't actually want the slides to show up here. You can click on the Zoom. You can right click and you can select change Image. I will change the image to the ones that I have downloaded and prepared for myself. From a file, from stock images from icons, we could replace them with icons. I'll select from a file because I've prepared some files. You can see those are the three files. I'll just double click on them, and those are designs that I made previously. You can do, for example, a design like that. You can right click and you can save this as picture. I save them as picture, and I will replace those information with the pictures. Change image from file. Number two, change from file number three. Well, this would be a very advanced case scenario where you need to prepare and design, but this is how I wanted my slide to look like. I wanted my slide to be very clean with all those information here. But in reality, those are slide Zooms. I can click on each of the Zooms. And further information will be revealed. What I did, I just disguised those slides with the icons in front of me. As you can see, there is this rectangle around this, because this slide will use its background. If you remember our function on the Zoom, if you select Zoom background, so the background is transparent, this rectangle will no longer be visible. You can play the presentation and you see the rectangle is invisible, but this is how PowerPoint operates. This is how the zoom feature works. Just remember that in this case, it will use the background from this very slide. Because all the backgrounds here are white, that's no problem. But if my background would be, let's say, purple, this would be a problem because those icons are barely visible now. Isn't a big problem because when you click here, well, the text is pretty visible, but it all depends on the designs that you did. So be very careful with the colors. For example, here, you can barely see the text on the right side. I would need to change the color of the text in case I wanted to use the purple. And this icon here, the first icon is barely visible as well or invisible because it has the same color as the background. Be very mindful about that. This is another use case scenario for the Zoom effect when I use it in projects. 44. 06-04. Morph: In this and upcoming lectures, I'll explain the Morph feature to you. Within transitions, there is a special transition called Morph. If you hover your mouse, it tells you three things. Duplicate a slide, move things around, apply the Morph transition. Alright, let's do it. I'll control D to duplicate the slide. I'll move things around. I'll make them different, put them somewhere else, and I'll apply the more transition. PowerPoint takes information from slide number two and tries to animate them within the transition area to look like that. If I go one step forward to this slide, if I hit MRF, this is what would happen. Okay, let me delete slide number two. It will look very nice if you go 1-2. If I click to Morph, you can see we have this beautiful animation while any other transition would be just a simple fate, a push, a wipe, depending on what we select. How transitions work. Sometimes you can with success, use the fade, but in reality, the Morph looks absolutely the most beautiful and it unlocks plenty of possibilities in PowerPoint. I'll show this again on real case scenarios. Just be mindful that with Morph, when there are multiple objects, PowerPoint selects the object, which will morph itself, but the ones that do not morph into anything, they will just fade. In this case, we have two objects that should morph into one. Do you think which one will be morphed? The first one or the second? I think the second one because it's closer, but let's see. Yes, the second one me morphing. This is how PowerPoint figures it out. Now, there is a trick if you deliberately want this object to be morphed, not this, you can go into home, select selection pane, and you can put two exclamation marks and give it the same name on this and the next slide. If I take this oval, I give two exclamation marks and call it oval. Let's call it oval left. And here as well, I'll go two exclamation marks oval, left. Then PowerPoint notes. Hey, he deliberately specified the name of this object, so I'll morph this one. If you use two exclamation marks going to transitions, Morph will make sure that even though the left one is further away, it will be the one morphing. Let's go to a simple practical example. Let me delete this. Let's say that let me delete object. Let's say on slide number one, we have this and on slide number two, we have this. How to make a beautiful transition between them with Morph? Because currently PowerPoint randomly selected one object and morphed it into the middle one. You need to have the same objects on both slides. I have this object on slide number one, I'll control C, and I have the same object now on slide number two, but I'll put it on top of the slide. This way, I'll achieve a beautiful animation. Okay, let's be maybe more in the center. A beautiful animation when this comes out and those are faded in. How to make that they will morph into the slide? I'll take them as well, Control C, and I will put the same objects on the previous slide, put them outside of the screen. This will tell PowerPoint, Hey, on the previous slide, the objects were here. On this slide, they are here. Let me fly them in. Let me morph them inside, okay? Beautiful. Little trick here is. When I do something like that, I always put the items further away from each other. This will make a nice cascading animation. Look at that. Beautiful, boom. And this is an animation that would be very tedious and long to make in PowerPoint. You would have to select fly in fall all together, and it would be difficult to synchronize everything. But with MRF, it's very, very simple. You just duplicate the slide and you move objects around. You may think, why do we need animations if we have MRF? Well, MRF happens between the slide. You have no control over it other than changing the duration. So everything within MRF happens automatically. Show this to you on an example in the upcoming lectures. 45. 06-05. Morph Example: In this lecture, I would like to show you a real world usage of the Morph feature and how I often use this to create animations. Let's say that I have some text and three text boxes. With my Morph animation, I can make an animation like that where items fly over to the next part with the next slide. How to do this? Go to the slide to the black slide where it says work here and let me show you how you can do this. I'll take this slide. So this is the initial state. I would actually want let me see all the elements are grouped. Okay? I want to select this object. Shift click this object, shift click this object, and I want to put them to the bottom. Or maybe even outside of the slide. To show you everything. Maybe this even outside of the slide. All right. Now I'll duplicate this slide. Now I'll bring this forward, and I'll bring all the text boxes higher. Do you understand what will happen now? The moment I click on Morph PowerPoint takes information from the previous slide. Maybe even let's be a bit more fancy. Let's put this here. Okay, PowerPoint will take information from the previous slide. Okay, Morph this purple object from here, this text from the bottom, and this text from the left side. If I click MRF, everything happens simultaneously. I really love the design. Now I just press Control D, I take the text boxes, again, a bit higher, maybe this more to the right side, and I'll go to home to text, and I'll make the text gray. So it's less important. I'll make this text as well. Less important. Let's see how that looks now. Transitions Morph. Okay, beautiful. Now, this middle text becomes the most prominent one. I'll duplicate this object. Now I can take one text outside of the slide. I can make this, let's call it less important. I could even make it smaller just so you see what will happen. But when text get smaller, it's a bit difficult with MRF because MRF doesn't really know how to do this. Okay, I'll bring this text forward, and I'll change the text color to white. Let me go to transitions Morph. Morph has already selected, but I like to click on it to see what will happen. Okay, beautiful. And where are we? We are on this slide. With the last slide, I would like all the text to fly out completely. Okay? Let me select the text. It's a bit difficult. I'll put the text here. I'll put the purple object here, and I'll put this object here, and this would allow me to create a new design. Me see our entire animation. My first mouse click will fly everything in. Boom, my second mouse click will move the text here, and my third mouse click or my arrow key will move this text in the middle of the slide. The last click, I made sure that everything goes away so I have a clean slate to continue my design. Is a very sophisticated way of using the Morph feature, but this is exactly how you will use this. Don't worry. This will come with experience. At first, you need to learn PowerPoint slide design, and then you can slowly implement morph features into your existing slide designs. Those are real case scenarios how to do it. In the next lecture, I'd like to show you another scenario that might be difficult, but we are here to actually challenge ourselves and learn something difficult. Let's see each other in the next lecture. 46. 06-06. Morph Practical Usage: In this lecture, I would like to show you how you can have fun with MRF and use it, for example, to explain a slide like that where you make certain informations more prominent. Okay, this is a slide, and what I would do in that case, I press Control D, I would make sure that everything here is grouped, Okay? Those are grouped, so I'll select one, two, and three, and I'll make all of them smaller using my shift. Now the text is a bit too big, so you can use shortcuts to make the text smaller. PowerPoint Morph will have a bit of troubles with that, but it won't be really visible, and I will make this one object bigger. This one object bigger, the text a tiny bit bigger as well. And this is how I would make this more prominent. Let's say that I want the second one on the next slide, cltrsctl D. And here I could revert the steps. I can make this smaller to the same size of the other ones. I could make the text smaller as well, okay? A bit higher. Maybe put them a little bit further. If I click on Morph, you will see what will happen now. Okay, beautiful. And this way, I can make this one larger now. I could repeat the steps and the process until I'm satisfied with all four different boxes of them. This slide would allow me to present information like that. Let's focus on the first. Oh, I haven't selected more transition. I need to go to transitions and I need to select MRF. If you have a very old version of PowerPoint, just use fate or something that will make it look better. Wipe often also looks good because you can wipe, you can change the direction, for example, from top, and this would make this one bigger. But we have more. I'll select. Morph would actually allow me to make this left top one bigger. Now on the next slide, the right one bigger. And if I would continue that, I would make the left bottom bigger and the right bottom bigger. This is how you can use the more feature. 47. 07-01. Introduction: In this section, I would like to explain to you what a PowerPoint template is. And we have two types of templates in PowerPoint. Well, we have one type, but people understand templates as two things. On one hand, a template can be a ready designed PowerPoint file that you open and you adjust a little. Here, I have the colors implemented into this presentation. I can show you because when I create a shape, I already have my colors pre selected here, so a color scheme is selected. I have custom fonts in this presentation, and I have designs that I can customize. So is this a template? Well, anyone can open this file and can work on it. Yes, but by a template, what Microsoft normally means is a blank presentation file where you go to design, you select it, and this is in PowerPoint's eyes, a template. In Microsoft's eyes, this is a template where we have different layouts, and we have placeholders for this is what Microsoft calls a template. I'll show you in the upcoming lectures exactly how to do this, how to create this, how to work with it. In reality, yes, this is what you usually buy. Those are perfect templates, and a trick is, if you like the design that you did, you like maybe you don't have sophisticated layout or you have no layout, but you like the colors you use, the fonts you use. You can always go to design. You can open it, and you can save this current theme and use it in your other presentations. But this will come in the next lectures. Let us start working on that. 48. 07-03. Font Pairings: In this lecture, I'll show you how to use, custom fonts in your presentations on the Windows and the Mac version. On the Windows version, it is much simpler. Let's say I have here selected Roboto and it needs to be installed on your system. It will be already in this template. So if you're using my resources, you don't have to install it. But if you would like to save this as a font pairing for your future presentations, I highly recommend that you save it. Okay, I have Roboto installed. You can use Google Phones Da font or 1001 free font. I recommend, of course, Google Phones. And to set a font pairing, the font that will be used throughout your entire presentation, you only go to design, you open variants, fonts, and there you have those font pairings. You can see as I scroll through the pairings, they change the fonts in my presentation. You will select customized fonts, and I have it in Polish in my native language, but you will select a heading font and a body. My case, this is Roboto black and Roboto. You can call it robot I always when I do those phone pairings, I call it Roboto B, so I know it's bolt or black or something like that, or even black plus. Then I type in the second font ma. In my case, Roboto or regular or Roboto plus Roboto. So I'll know I have this already saved, so I'll not save this right now, and the problem on the Mac version is that you cannot save those font pairings. You can use it, but for some reason, they didn't program the save button. So on the Mac version, it's a bit more difficult. Advantage here is that no matter what textbook you do, you start typing and you have already this font pre selected. If you open the font, you have your headings font and your body font exactly like you specified. The heading font will be for titles. So if there is a layout with a title, the title will already have this black text. Designer could help you with some simple designs, but we will not use this now. Sadly, on the MC version, it is very difficult, but I will save a couple of font pairings and share them with you. You can copy those files to this location, and they will be available in your Mac as well. Just be mindful that you need to have those fonts installed first. For example, install the Poppins font, install railway, install Roboto, copy over those font pairings, and you will have them available in your PowerPoint to be selected by going to design variant fonts, they will be here even on your MAC version. Alternatively, alternatively, we will very soon go into the Slide Master view. On the Mac version, you can go to the Slide Master, go to the first biggest slide that it calls that is called a Slide Master. I'll teach you about the Slide Master in a second. You can specify the font here by going to home and selecting the font directly here and here. Then you can exit the Slide Master. I'll explain the slide Master in a second. And on the design tab, you can save this current theme. It will be saved with the fonts that you selected, but it will be saved as a separate theme file. So if that doesn't bother you, then you can do this on the Mac as well. In the next lecture, I'll start to explain what the slide Master actually is, what layouts are, and everything will come together. For this lecture, you are supposed to pick a font pairing if you are on Windows. On Mac, I recommend that you copy some of my font pairings and you will be able to select it as well. For now, you should have the color scheme selected and a font choice. Thank you, and see you in the next lecture. 49. 07-04. Master Slides: In this lecture, I'll talk about Slide Master specifically about this big Master slide. Okay. When you write click Select layout, you see different layout, but all of the layouts have one master slide above them. In this case, it's called of theme. Let me go to view and open the Slide Master view. Slide Master view on the left side shows you the one big slide master, and this is what we are going to talk about in this lecture. Below are different layouts that we prepared and that we will also prepare in the next lecture. Let me for a second, I made a shortcut for myself. For a second, close, and here I have a design element and some little star. I'll take both, and I would like you to take them as well. Click on this, Control or Shift, click on this, Control C, and now go to view Slide Master and put that on your Slide Master. You will see that automatically, this will be visible on all other slides, no matter what you put on the slide Master, if this will be a shape, for example, it will be automatically put on all other layouts as well, and you cannot click on it. You cannot select it. You cannot delete it. So be very careful what you put on the slide Masters. Some companies want to have their logo, so it's consistent in the entire presentation in the same place, but it depends on the situation, whether we want it. Let's say that I created a Slide Master. Now, I'll specify the font font. I have the color, and I have already specified the font for this presentation because I've selected one of the custom pairings I had. Do I have Roboto here? Do I have Roboto safe? Okay, I have roboto black and roboto saved, and if I wouldn't have them saved, I would go to home and I would pick them manually here or go to Slide Master. I would click on fonts, and I would select this font pairing. Now, this will make sure all other slides will look exactly like that. And another thing, if you take this box here, and you, for example, go to home and change the color of the text to red. Now, by default, by default, all text boxes in this presentation will be red. So be very careful with the slide master. Slide Master is the big boss, the big ultra slide that specifies the design for the entire presentation. Sometimes you need to have two different color schemes in the presentation. For that, you can right click and you can select another slide master. If you have a set of another layouts under it. Let me just, for example, rename this master to second, second, second color, second company color. If your company has two different color schemes, I'll go to Slide Master. I'll close this view. And now when designing slides when designing slides, let's say that I'll select a layout, and I can select either the layout with designs on it or my big second template. It's called second company color. I could possibly have different layouts or the same layout, just maybe without this design element. So this is how the slide Master works, and this is one of the steps when setting up templates inside of PowerPoint. In the next lecture, we will talk about its layouts. 50. 07-05. Layouts: In this lecture, I will explain to you what layouts are. Their advantages and disadvantages. In this presentation, if I right click layout, I have a couple of custom layouts. I can see that I have something with a picture on the left side and a textbox on the right side. Let me delete the text in the background. And what is the advantage? What is the disadvantage? The advantage is that I have everything so beautifully prepared. I can insert the picture. Let's select a stock image. I'll select any given image from the Microsoft library. Let's, for example, use those pictures insert and they will beautifully fit into my placeholder. Disadvantage is that you are limited to the layouts that you created. What if you want a design with three pictures? You would anyway need to duplicate this, duplicate this, have three pictures. So why even bother and select this layout or that layout when there is no layout with three pictures? Well, you have two options. Either you create a layout with three pictures if you plan to use them, or you just duplicate and design and take the design from here now on. Some companies want you to only use the layouts that are prepared, so no one makes mistakes and all slides look consistent. This is also very fine and good. The way you can create layout is going to view slide master, and you have only one slide master. You can have plenty of layout. Let me select right click Insert layout, and create a new layout. I can decide whether I want a title and the footer. They can stay empty like that, or you can make, for example, the title smaller. If you prefer that, the title for this layout will be smaller. I'll go to home. All normal PowerPoint functions apply here. This is just another PowerPoint inside of PowerPoint. That's where you set up your templates. Going to Slap Master, you can go to Insert placeholder, and there are different types of placeholders. You can have text, picture, chart, table. So with one click, you can add a table or you can add a chart. But very often, you use content because content allows you to place any from the above mentioned ones or just start typing to put in text here. You can duplicate this. You can specify whether you want this textbook here or how do you want it to look like? Or here, I can select a picture. I can place it here, and now my first layout would be ready. In the next lecture, I would like to make those kind of layouts. That makes sense. Here I wanted to show you the features. But if I would be designing now and I wanted a picture on the right side and I want to do two textboxes. Luckily, I did that. So I'll select right click layout, and I'll select the layout that I just created a few seconds ago. I'll click on this. The picture automatically gets here because this is the same layout. Here I have a textbox already pre written. Here I have a second textbox. But don't worry. You can always delete elements, then they don't have to be here. Even though you use this layout, you don't have to use everything from it. This could be this slide as well. This is a layout and PowerPoint. It can help you. It can speed up your workflow, and it should be specified for your given template, but they are not always mandatory to use. 51. 07-06. Reusable Layouts: In this lecture, I would like to design a layout with you. Let me delete a textbox. Let's say that the blank one is selected here, so I will no longer be able to delete it because sometimes you want to delete layout. Go to view Slide Master, and you can delete different layout if they are not used. Okay, those are not used. This one is used, so I cannot delete this. But let me select Insert layout. Okay, I don't want a title. I don't want photos. I want a beautiful layout here. Let's make this a picture layout. Okay. Maybe I'll use this placeholder for a picture. W I can do, I can go to edit shape, change shape, and I can predefine its shape. For example, to this rounded rectangle, I can move this around, and now this will be the shape used for the picture. Let's say that I want two more pictures. TD and Control D, Control D, this basically could be a layout. I will make this a bit larger, maybe those two a bit more to the right side and I don't like that they are touching each other, so I'll move them away, and this would be my layout. One additional very high quality move is that you can use the merge shape feature as well. For example, you would like a triangle to be cut out into this one. This would be possible by selecting displace holder, shift clicking this triangle apologies, shape format, merge shapes, and you can subtract from displace. A very high profile, high quality move in PowerPoint. So I would like you to create at least this layout. And if you are capable, you can also try to cut this out. I'll show you the end result now. Let's say that you are creating a presentation. Oh, it would be so nice to have a layout with a triangle cut out of a picture. That would be perfect. Well, apparently we did that. So I can insert the picture from stock images. Let's maybe select picture number one, two, and three because I have three placeholders. All press insert. This picture will be automatically placed here, and designer choice to give me different choices which aren't actually that bad, but I specified this layout for a reason, and you can now see what happened. I have a very customized shape with this triangle cut out. Well, you could say, why bother when I could just make a triangle and just put the triangle above this picture. This would be so much simpler. Yes, exactly. And this is the problem with layout because once you specify a layout, you'll most likely not change it much. If you don't like this object, you'll most likely delete it. So why do it in the first place? It's nice that it was there, but if I would need that, I would just put a triangle by hand. But some companies know that their employers cannot use PowerPoint to a very high level, so they assume that you are the person who wants to learn PowerPoint, you will be the person who creates the template for your company, so you will be the one to create those layouts. Okay, this is the first layout. And in a lecture, we can work on a different layout so you get the hang of it. 52. 07-07. Reusable Layouts #2: In this lecture, let us create one last layout, and I recommend when you work a lot with slidemaster on your layout. You can go to view and I recommend setting Slide Master to your shortcuts. I have entering Slidemaster and going out of Slide Master with those two shortcuts when I use them often. Okay, when I'm in template designer mode, I always add those shortcuts, then I can delete them. Now, let's create another layout and maybe just delete the second Slide Master. We don't need that. I'll right click select Insert layout. We have a blank new layout. Let us go to placeholder. Text on the left side, okay? Text here, and maybe content on the right side. Slide master, insert placeholder content, and maybe a chart on here as well. Now, you can see all of a sudden, we have a layout with plenty of items on it, and very often, some people want the chart to be on the left side, depending on the information and data you are presenting. So I could take this layout that I have. I could duplicate this layout, and I could just put the chart on the left side, put this on the right side, and we are good to go. But you cannot always have an endless amount of layout. So depending on your companies or your own needs, design just how much you want them. One additional feature that I wanted to show you here, for example, your entire company uses this design in the corner because it was set in the Slide Master and it always has to be there. But there might be a case that on this layout, you don't want it. There's a feature called height Background graphics. This allows you to hight any graphic that is specified on the slide Master, for example, the company logo, because sometimes you want to present something on the entire slide. You don't want the company logo you get rid of it by hiding those pacron graphics on this specific layout. You could even duplicate this layout. And the second version, those graphics could be again visible. I would try click. I would rename this layout. I could make it 33 boxes. No graphic. Three boxes hidden graphics. Okay. And the second one would be rename layout three boxes. All right, how close the master of you when you are back in PowerPoint, when you design something, you have layout, you have a layout called three boxes, and there's three boxes, hidden graphics. So this graphic and this star graphic is no longer visible. This is exactly how you create templates in PowerPoint. We did everything. We edited a color scheme, we added a font, we added custom layouts. In the next lecture, I'll show you how to save this and make it reusable for other presentations. 53. 07-08. Saving a Template: The last thing you'll probably want to do at this stage is to save this template for future use. Once I save this template, it will have the color scheme. It will have the specified font. It will have the slide master, and all the layouts that we created. All right. Let's go to design, open it, select Save current theme. By saving current theme, let's call it Tree box theme just so we know it, a new theme has been added to our PowerPoint. Don't really like those templates. I prefer to open separate PowerPoint files with different designs in them and even layouts inside of them. I don't like to have too many custom designs here. I have a few, and they are a little bit annoying to me already. And the original PowerPoint ones are even more annoying. If you ever saw this presentation so many times, now you know how it was created. Someone went into the Slide Master view. Let me go to Slide Master. Someone went to the first slide, someone added a couple of graphics, literally just a few boxes, a few shapes. And this is now the most popular template of all time inside of PowerPoint. It complicated? Absolutely not. But someone had a nice idea and added a couple of shapes, and this is how this template was created. And you probably saw this template 1 million times in presentations that you saw about PowerPoint. Going back to our template, the advantage is that if I have a completely new PowerPoint file, I will be able on my computer, go to Design and select this design here. It is called three box theme. The moment I click on this three box theme, I know that I have the font selected. I know that I have the beautiful red color scheme already pre selected for me, and I have this, let's say, beautiful shape in the corner. I will also have all the layouts. If I send this file to someone, someone opening the file will have the same features, but my advantage is that I have it stored locally on my computer. At any given point, I can open PowerPoint. I can go to Design, and with one mouse click, I can bring those color schemes forward and the layout forward. This is perfect for usage, if you have a brand company or something that always wants to use the same template. It's not ideal when you like different designs and you make a different design each time. This is how PowerPoint templates are used, created, saved, and stored. Thank you for your attention here. Let us move to another topic. 54. 08-01. Chart Basics: H. Welcome to the section where we talk about charts. In the first lecture, I would like to take such a chart and transform it into something like that, with all the changes that were being made. Let me guide you through that in PowerPoint. The first slide is called the data. I want you to take the data that we will use for this particular chart, press Control C on the data and go to the slide where it says, W here and where all the instructions are. I'll delete the slide, and this is a simple slide with a content placeholder. You can click on the chart on the placeholder, if you have it like that. Or simply go to insert chart, and we will work with the line chart. It can be the line chart with markers. It's okay. I was select, Okay, it will be the most appropriate one. I'll enlarge this a little, and I'll paste my data. I don't need the third series, so I'll just drag it forward like that and I can close it. Okay, this is the chart that we have. The first task is add remove, show where to add and remove elements of a chart. On a chart on Windows, we have this plus sign. This plus sign allows us to add or delete any element of the chart. We can even select directly if we want the primary horizontal X or the vertical X, then we can select whether we want titles or not for the axis and so on and so forth. The Mac version, I know that currently we don't have this plus sign, but that's no problem at all. You can at any given point, click on the chart, go to Chart Design, and here on the left side, there is add Chart element. By adding chart element, you have all the same options. You can click on anything here and you can preview what would happen if you would select or deselect it. Okay, number one is done. Number two, design, adjust the size of the X and Y X is to be bigger. Okay. On a PowerPoint chart, you can select a chart, and with another click, you can select different elements of it. What do I mean by different elements? You can select the Y axis, the X axis, the legend, the middle of the chart itself, the series, and the title. I also like the Y axis, and you can format this like any other object in PowerPoint. I can simply increase the size of the text to be 18 points, just as I specified. The same for the X axis. Okay? Now, this would be a little bit easier to read for people who are viewing this presentation. Okay, charting, display the Yxis every 100. Additional charting options, when you click on something, can be accessed by right clicking and selecting Format axis. By formatting the axis, it brings you not to the filling options, not to the effect options, but a new option step, specifically to the item that you selected on the chart. If I select the series, I'll have serious specific options. If I select the legend, I'll have legend specific options. If I select this axis, I'll have options. Concerning this axis. If you would like it to be displayed every 100, you can go to format axis and chart options. Let me go to the chart options. And instead of the major units being 50, I will change them to 100 and press Enter. This does change the chart to my preference. All right. We have done number three. Number four, recall or use the legend to recall our entire series. You can recall our items here in PowerPoint. For example, the series by just clicking on the series chart design going to format and changing its outline. But you can do the same by clicking on the legend. The legend is connected with the series. So if you click on the legend, then click once again to select only line number one. And if you would like it to be yellow, you can go to shape fill or not Shape Outline because this is actually an outline shape outline. Yellow. And for example, the other one, it can be blue or we can go for a different color. Let's go for again, hotline. Let's go for this red maybe. Alright. We have recolored them. 55. 08-02. Chart Basics #2: Add, remove the legend title. As set, items can be added or deleted multiple ways. We can delete them with a plus sign. For example, I get rid of the chart title here. You could just press on the legend and press Delete or alternatively chart design, add chart element. Here, as well, you can remove or add elements. If I want the chart title, I can get it back here. All right. We did it. Now, design increase width of both lines to four. The series themselves, when I click on them, have their own design options, just like if I have a shape in PowerPoint, it has its own design options like the filling options, the line options around it, the same way for items inside of a chart. If you click on the series, you go to its filling options. You can see we have line and marker. For the line options, we can, for example, increase the width. Markers are the little circles here in the middle. They don't have to be circles. You can go to marker setup, and here you have Marker fill and marker border. Let me, for example, make a solid fill for the marker. Let's make a different blue so you can see it, and I would need to increase the size. The border, I'll increase the border so you will see what's happening here. Make them extremely big just so you clearly see what's happening. Okay, I made them red. Let's make them blue, and I would have those big blue circles. This doesn't look good at all, but I wanted to show you the possibility here. We can even open marker options, and they don't have to be circles. Automatically, they are circles, but if I go for built in and I, for example, go for a rectangle or this becomes a round rectangle, we can increase the size of the middle point as well, or it could be a triangle like that. But then I need to consider whether I want the border or not. I could increase the middle part separately. All right. You can do the same for the second line, go to the line options and increase the width to be matching to the original one. We made several adjustments to the chart, just so you understand what's possible with PowerPoint, what PowerPoint is capable of changing within charts, so your charts won't look like the default PowerPoint charts anymore like most of people use. 56. 08-03. Adding Chart Elements: When talking about business presentations and charts in general, I need to mention that it is possible to add items directly inside of charts. The advantage of that is that when you resize a chart, those items resize as well. This is very convenient for this type of work. Let me show you how we can do this. If you select a chart, the chart is selected and you go now to insert shapes and you start creating a shape while the chart is selected it will become an integral part of it. Now, when I resize this chart, this purple object will be resized as well. If I make this smaller, this purple object will go with it. For example, this could be like an information. I'll place 200 here. I'll put this in the middle. If I wanted this text to be perfectly in the middle of this object, either I add a text box on top of it, or I go to right click Format object, and from the sizing options, the third options with the size, here we have different text options. We have a vertical alignment top, I'll change it to middle. Okay. It's perfectly in the middle. I could make this bigger, make this bold, and now it is an integral part of the chart. Of course, the text will not resize when you resize this, so you need to make the text smaller by hand, but that's not such a big problem. However, if I don't select this chart, if I just start to insert the shape, for example, like this, here, boom, I didn't have the chart selected. Now when I resize the chart, the object says here because this is like any other regular object added into PowerPoint on this slide. PowerPoint doesn't know, Hey, this is an integral part of this chart. One way you can possibly adjust this is to cutting this by Control X on Windows, clicking on the chart, and pressing Control V. Now I have pasted this inside of the chart. Now it became an integral part of the chart. Please remember about this trick when working with different charts. 57. 08-04. Column Chart: In the next lecture, we'll work on an example, bar chart, but I would like to explain to you when to actually use bar charts in general, so you will go better at data visualization. This is from my data visualization course where I explain each type of chart when to use advantages, disadvantages, practical examples, and so on. So let us use the material that I've already prepared. I'll collapse everything, and I'll explain to you the bar chart here. I'll compare the bar chart and the column chart. A column chart can be explained. That. It consists of a X axis and a Y axis, and, of course, of the columns themselves in the middle. They represent a given value directly on the chart itself. When it comes to the axis on the X axis, we usually have some kind of data labels category, year, a category like a company or different years, so we can compare the years with each other. On the left side on the Y axis, we often have some number of sales value degrees, for example, money, number of sales, amount of sales in US dollars or something like that. You compare this to a line chart, why do we use column charts? Because if on a line chart, you would change some data. You can barely see the difference. Look how the difference is represented. The entire chart changes, but with a column chart, if you change the data here, you can very clearly see the difference, and only one of the bars gets different, not the entire line from a line chart. The same with a Pie chart. On a pie chart, it's very difficult to see tiny differences between data. Have tiny differences between data, this is an information for you that a column chart or a bar chart might be the good choice here. We have 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and you can barely tell the difference. On a line chart as well, depending on the YX scale that you use, it would be a bit difficult to see where is 3.2 or where is 3.3 if I didn't have those data labels. But on a column chart, it's clearly visible that one column is a little higher than the other. The same way a bar chart is used, a bar chart is just a horizontal version of the column chart. It has a bit more space for data and especially for the labels on the left side. So if you have plenty of labels or you have very long labels, you might want to consider a bar chart. Here is an example. If you have that many categories, you'll probably go for a bar chart, but you could use a column chart, but in my opinion, and generally when it comes to data visualization, it is a bit more difficult to understand and comprehend that many data on a bar chart. It's a bit better laid out. So this is when you would consider using this type of chart. Let us go now to a practical example. 58. 08-05. Bar Chart Usage: In this lecture, we will create a chart to look something like this. We will change the colors, but I want you to understand this is the data that we will be using. You can have degrees in Celsius or in Fahrenheit. What do you prefer? We have plenty of data points. This immediately tells me that I could use a line chart. It is only one data point, but we have separate series. So a line chart would make sense because I want to compare those series. I don't want a trend like on a line chart. I want data, data, data, data be displayed in different columns. Looking at that, I immediately see that I should be using the column chart or the bar chart. Let's copy. I'll go for Celsius because those degrees are native to me. I'll understand them better, and I'll insert a chart directly here. I know that I want to use a column chart. Yes, we can start with the column chart so you can see the difference. Okay, I have a column chart. Let me paste the data here. Let me close that down because we only need this one series. All right. Now, it looks okay, but it's very difficult to read this on the bottom. If I would make this bigger, it would be even worse because the moment you make this bigger, you take up so much space. Add a column chart first to see its downsides. All right. What I'll do, I'll click on this. I'll right click select change chart type, and I will change it from a column to a bar chart. Let me go to a bar chart, boom, like that. Okay, beautiful. Now it's a little easier to read those cities. Edit data in Excel to sort it from highest to lowest. I don't like that we have here nine degrees, ten degrees or 11, then again, nine. I would like to have this sorted, for example, from highest to lowest. I can do this by going to chart design, edit data. I can edit the data in Excel. Excel, of course, is very powerful. I have the data point selected. You can just click on data, and there is A to Z and Z to A. By default, it will sort the names of the cities. But I'll say this again, I'll click on sort and column sort on sort by not city. I want to sort it by those average temperatures. Okay, average temperatures, largest to smallest, okay, and beautiful. Now it is complete. I'll close this, and now I have everything beautifully sorted. I wanted it to have the other way around so I can get to the Excel data. Once again, I can select everything. I can go to data to sorting. Average temperature, let's go for smallest to largest. All right. This will turn this chart around. Beautiful. I have edited the data. Now, working on the colors. At first, I see I don't see all the cities. I can make this bigger to showcase all the cities or make the text smaller. All right. Now I see everything. Work on the colors. Let's, for example, take Click once again on it. Let's go for formatting colors, and let's use colors from our presentation. For example, yellow, the coldest, blue will be the coldest. Okay, let's go for blue, blue, blue, blue. Then let's move forward to the average temperatures. Instead of blue, let's go for this orange, orange. I wish I could do this in bulk, but I have to do this manually one by one. Okay. Those would be the average temperatures and the highest temperatures, I'll select them in red. So let me go for the first one, red. Because it represents the hottest value. If I wouldn't have those colors, I would just use different ones. Okay, remove the legend, remove X xs. I don't need the legend because it gives me too much information. The X axis, as well. I don't like the data points here because I don't want to always move my mouse, okay? This is 17. I would like to add data label, like it says on point number five. I'll select plus sign. I'll add data labels, and now they are much easier and simpler to see. This is how I would approach creating a bar chart, knowing that I want a bar chart by looking at this data. And this is how want you to look at charts from now on. You first look at the data and you think a little bit, what would be the most suitable chart. This will come with experience, so don't worry. 59. 08-06. Filtering Data in Charts: Let us now work on a column chart, and I want to show you how you can show only part of the information to this here. Let's say that you want to display only four or five cities, how would you approach that? Okay, let us work on that. You created this and you want to filter out a part of the information. Change the chart into a column chart. I think for less data, a column chart would be suitable. You can select the entire chart, right click on it, change chart type, go to column and just press Okay. Okay. Now a column chart. I would like to highlight only those cities, how to do this. On Windows, we have this filter button. This filter button allows us to very, very easily, very easily deselect the data that we don't want. We can deselect the data. Boom. We don't need those data points, hit Apply, and everything is already filtered out. But on Mac, we don't have this available. You can do this without a problem as well by going to Chart Design, editing the data. Let me click on Edit Data, and you could copy this over to have a safety copy. Let's just delete everything but the five data points that we wanted here. I'll press Control X and Control V to bring them forward, and I'll make this chart smaller so only the relevant data is displayed. Okay, I achieved the same but with a different method. Okay, remove or filter out data, so only five cities are left. We did this, adjust colors if needed, so the chart isn't confusing. Well, now it's confusing. Now I basically tell people, Hey, this is something different than the rest. What I would do probably is selecting a uniform color, format shape using a uniform color. Let's, for example, say we go for blue. Then if you want to highlight a certain data, let's say that I want to highlight the highest value. I'll take this clicking again on it, shapeful and I will give it a different color. For example, purple or red stands out here, yellow stands out. Okay, I would then take the data labels, selecting all the data labels. How would press control be so they aren't bolded Home. Let me make them tiny bit bigger to 14 points, and let's make the last one much bigger. Alright, like that. Beautiful. No, I don't like that this is so high. This area is basically useless. So let me maybe adjust the Y axis. I don't see the Y axis, so I can edit by going to chart design, add chart alumn, axis and primary vertical. I can now click on the X format axis, and let me not display any value 0-10 or zero and eight, just so you see. So the bounds, the minimum bounds would be eight Okay? Because we don't need anything below eight. And here maybe 25, so they aren't so high. Alright, now I can again, delete this. Now I have a bit more space here on the top side. This is already beautiful. I'll make this bold. I highlighted this and if I would need further highlighting. One way I'm doing this with animations is using a rounded rectangle. This is just an example. You don't have to replicate this. I'm using a rounded rectangle shape fill, no fill, shape O line. Wait, make it a bit bigger. This Okay, sorry. And this could be, for example, animated. Let's say that I'm explaining this presentation. Let me go for a simple fade. I'm explaining the data 0.1, two, three, four, I'm explaining what's going on. And I would like you to focus your attention to Athens now. And with this animation, I can beautifully focus someone's attention to this given data point. Okay? This is just a bonus tip when presenting charts. I want you to do this column chart, change the color, and know what you're doing, for example, by changing the values from the vertical axis, the bounds. Thank you so much for listening, and in the next lecture, we'll go to a different type of chart. 60. 08-07. Line Chart: In this lecture, before we go to a line chart, I would like to actually explain when do you use a line chart what it is all about. I think a line chart is very understandable. It seems like the most common chart, but if you actually look closer, it represents data over time. Let me show it to you graphically. A line chart is X axis that very often represents some kind of time period, months, days, years and the Y axis that represents a given value, for example, amount of sales. The important part here is that plenty of data points when they are connected with given time intervals, the line chart will be the perfect chart to use in this scenario because at any given point, any given type of data can be represented on this bottom timeline. As said here, very often, we have, for example, value like that, and on the bottom, we have some kind of time period. The line chart starts to look a little bit difficult when there are more lines and when the data points aren't really separate to each other. The more lines, the worse. Let's for example, see here six different series on a line chart. Unless we change the colors and make one series more important than the other and thicker, then it will be very difficult to see what's going on here. So to give you a brief recap, the line chart will be perfect for data changes over time, for trends, for forecasts, for data points that are connected, can be pinpointed at any given time. They aren't great. If there are many categories or comparisons to whole, for that, you would most likely use a column chart or a pie chart. Let me show this to you on a practical example. Here we have copper price. Copper prices 2012-2022. One big trend. That's not a problem. But let's see when the same copper price is placed next to other metal prices as well. Here we have gold, silver, platinum and palladium. Now, I can barely see the copper. If I very intensively look at it, I see the darker blue line, but we aren't able to understand anything here. So be very mindful when using line charts, the data needs to be clear and understandable. Let's now go to practical examples that we will do ourselves. 61. 08-08. Line Charts Usage: In this lecture, let us start working on a line chart like that. We can use the dark design or the bright design. Depending on what you prefer, you can continue working on it. Okay, let us select the data. This is a global robot workforce data. In millions of units, we have manufacturing robots, healthcare robots, and educational robots that will slowly overtake our work. I'll take all the data points, and so many data points immediately tells me this will probably be a line chart. Okay, let us go. Let us start the work. I'll insert the chart. A line chart is okay. It can be the one with markers. No problem. This is trend over time, so it will perfectly be displayed as a line chart because data points will be connected. Okay. But we cannot really see much here. We cannot understand this chart. Now, remove the legend and add it as shapes explaining categories. What I did, I created three different shapes to go in line with the design of my presentations. Sometimes, if you want, you can use the legend. But the legend is very limited in its design. I'll make the chart a bit smaller. So we have space and the legend with the legend, you can basically only make this bigger. You can make the text a little bigger, and that's it. You cannot do much here. But if you add custom shapes, what I prefer, you can do whatever you want with them, and they could be more in line with the design of your actual presentation. Let's say that you use rounded rectangles for this presentation. I'll select no line. I'll duplicate this, I'll duplicate this, and I'll duplicate this. And which type of robots we have here, manufacturing, healthcare, education. Okay, manufacturing healthcare and education. You saw my trick. You can tic on those shapes, format those objects, go to the sizing options or to the text options, the sizing of the text options, and vertical alignment, middle, and horizontal Middle and centered. Okay, beautiful. Now they are in the center. Now I can make them bigger. I could, of course, change the color to be the same as the lines. Shape format, shape here blue, and here shapell red. Okay, everything now looks a bit more consistent. I removed the legend and added them as shapes. Make lines thicker and without markers. Okay, now we can see those little circles here. If you don't want to circles, those markers, you can go to the filling options to the marker options, and you can select no fill. Now they are no longer visible. We have only the outline of them so for the border, you should select no line as well. Now they are clean. I would repeat the steps for all three of them, or alternatively, I could just change this chart to a chart without markers. Change series type, go to line, and this is a line without markers. This is a line with markers. Okay, now we have no markers with one click. The width, if you want, you can make the width of the line a bit bigger for the line width. Let's make it 325, 325, and 325 for that. All right, what did we do? Make lines thicker and without markers. Reduced the amount of years displayed. Now, this is too many years to be displayed on such a small chart. What I would do, I would take those years, go to their axis options. Here, we have on the bottom labels. We can specify the interval unit and we can change the unit to be displayed every two different years. Okay? Now we have enough space to display all the years, and I think this is information enough for anyone looking at this chart. I don't like that we made those shapes so big, so I'll make them a bit smaller. Okay, beautiful. Now, reduced amount of years displayed is done. In the next lecture, I would like to continue adding the element. 62. 08-09. Line Chart Features: Hello, welcome. Let us continue from point number five. What do we have here at Unit and year description. All right. So actually, we have Unit and description. And we can do this on two different ways. Either, you click on the chart. You select the plus sign. And you select Xs titles. Xs titles will be added, but I don't always want to. Sometimes I'm just because they are a bit inconvenient to use. I would need to make the chart a bit smaller. I would need to put it here. So I just add a textbox instead. Okay. But here, I'll use the chart titles. So we are as native as possible. Here we have your and here we have milling of units. Okay, we added very clear unit descriptions. Make the Y axis every 25. Okay, you already know how to do this. We have plenty of data points here. I can select this axis directly. I have already opened the axis options. We have the bounds and the major units. I'll change the major units to 25. So every 25 is displayed. Okay, beautiful. We did that. Add tick marks to the Y axis. Marks are those little elements here. If you want them to appear visually. Now, let me work on that. I'll click on the Y axis. At first, I'll add a line here. You can add a line just by going to the filling options to the line options, giving it a solid line, and now we actually have a line. Let's go for the purple color so it isn't as invasive. We have the purple color. Now we can edit the tick. Tick marks are just below. I'm adding them only, so you'll see this feature in a real example. The minor points, we specify the minor points to be every five. So this would be too many of tick marks. I'll select the major. They can be inside, so they point inside. If you prefer, they can be outside or both. I prefer them to be inside. It somehow looks a bit better to me. Now, add a gradient to the background. This is tricky because the best way sadly to do this would be just to add a shape, put this shape behind everything, and add a gradient that way. This would look the best. If I click on this chart, you can see this is a very blocky rectangle. If I select this part and give it a gradient, only this part gets a gradient. If I select the entire chart, and select a gradient, I have this rectangle blocky thing behind me. The best way to add some kind of design is just to add a shape directly behind the chart. So I'll be very careful with the gradient here. Every element separately can have a gradient, but look at that. Does this look good in any way? No, it doesn't. So be very careful when adding elements and gradients. You can recolor even the horizontal lines. I like to give them plenty of transparency and give it a color consistent with my presentations, so it looks better. I think this chart is completed. We could, of course, place the title here. I didn't do that previously. So let me work on the title a little. Let me move this around. Let's move those boxes a little lower. Let's make the chart smaller, so the title fits, and let's make the entire chart bigger. Now it's a matter of placing everything properly This information as well, the years are okay. Now, everything is placed a bit better. I would move them closer to the actual data points, and this is how I would finalize this chart in PowerPoint. I hope you've learned a lot in this lecture about line charts and its possibilities. Let us go to another lecture. 63. 08-10. Animating Charts: In the upcoming lectures, I would like to show you something advanced, how to animate charts and PowerPoint. I think some of you already know this, but I'll show you different tricks that you can use to have such a beautiful reveal. What do you know how to do this? And what do you know how to animate the Y axis here? Let me show you how I would approach this. Now, let us start at a fade animation. If you select a chart, go to animations and select Fade. Of course, the chart will be animated. If I hit Play, we have a one animation for the entire chart. But if you open the animation pane and you double click on the animation itself, you can see there is chart animation, a special feature that allows you to group the chart as one object by series or by category. Let me go by series, and I can decide whether the starting animation will be drawing of the actual chart. Let me show this to you on a real example. The first animation will be drawing the chart, and the second animation will be animating the entire series. We have only one, so one big animation came across. If I open this, I have only two animations here, but if I double click Chart animation, and I select by category, we have that many categories. We will have that many animations. And in my opinion, this is too much because currently Everything would be a separate animation. Can you imagine having to click your mouse 16 times when presenting this presentation? I think this is too much. So we would need to group those animations into some kind of similar groups. Okay, we addit the fade animation. All right, get inside the animation pen and double click on the animation. Okay, we did that preview by series and by category. Okay? Each series is a category. Now, divide the chart into three big animations by using with previews. How to do this? I need to figure out which animation is Helsinki. I know that animation number one is creating the chart. Animation number two will probably be Helsinki. Okay, so we have one, two, three, four, five, six. Okay, one, two, three, four, five, six animations have been selected. I will right click and select with previous. And then I will select the first one and select onclick. Now, with the second mouse click, I want six animations to happen. Let me press Shift a five. My first mouse click is the actual chart, and my second mouse click, hopefully, will be the first six animations. We can, of course, adjust this if we made a mistake. Alright. Everything is done. Now I will take animations, one, two, three, four, five other ones. So the three will remain as a mouse click, and the four animations below it, sorry, I selected an will be with previous. This is mouse click number three, and mouse click number four, we'll stay as it is, Rd click. The other ones will be with previous Alpras shift a five. And this way, I would have an animation of this entire chart. I could explain to you cities that are usually a little bit colder than cities that are on average, a bit warmer. And then the warmest major cities in Europe would be Athens, Rome, Lisbon, and Madrid, with having 17-19 degrees on average in the year. Those would be the hottest cities, and it's such a blessing to be able to animate charts because they become more understandable. The next lecture, I would like to show you a trick how you can animate the Y axis. So let us go there. 64. 08-11. Advanced Chart Animation: Let me show you how you could take it one step further by animating this Y axis. This would look something like that. Where all the cities are being revealed gradually. The way I would do this, I would either add text boxes and animate those text boxes and delete this, or I can just cover a part of it. Let me create a shape. So one shape will cover everything. This will be the beginning shape. The next shape will cover only those ones. And the last shape will cover only the hottest ones. Now I'll recolor this shape to be the same color as the background, which will be white. And I would put the animations between two, three, and four. Let me select the first one animations, open animations, and I want fate animation because I want this to go away. At first, it will be here, but the moment animation number two happens, I'll select with previews, it will disappear. Let's look that in practice. So this will be a cover up. This will be my first mouse click, and the next mouse click will reveal the first part cities. Okay, now I'll take the second one, the second one. I'll just copy over the animation. Why bother? Select this one Animations animation painter. This and I'll put this after three. Now animation painter into the last shape, and I'll make the last shape to disappear after Mouse click Number four. Now I will align all of them. I'll select all of them, shape format, shape outline. No outline, shape, fill, do white. All right. Beautiful. Now, this would allow me to animate the chart gradually as I reveal the data. Data number one, data number two, and data number three. This would be my little trick to make this even more engaging. 65. 09-01. Introduction: In this section, we'll talk about creating a business presentation and everything that comes into it. I will explain action titles, how to build a story, how to use the SCQR format, how to use the Pyramid Principle for your presentations. This is a sample business presentation that I did. I will explain why what and where during the upcoming lectures. We are a company called Sweeply that creates robot vacuums that create outdoor cleaning robots. This presentation will be about reducing our operating costs by 40%. Let me explain everything in the upcoming lecture. 66. 09-02. Action Titles: In this lecture, I will explain action titles to you and where I place them within this presentation. Okay, let us explain action titles. Action titles are titles that state the message, not just describe the slide. With an action title, you actually want people to understand your slide by just reading the title. If I go to my further explanations here on the bottom, the action titles explain the so what? Not just the W. It's not just about what is your presentation about, but what comes from your presentation and the data that you present. You need to give tangible data and answers right in the title. An additional tip is that your titles should read like a story. There is a little tip that I'm doing when I consult people on presentations is, please add three dots to your titles before the title and after the title. Now delete all the content that you have. Will someone be able to understand your presentation by just reading the titles? If so, then most likely you have used action titles for your presentations and described everything very well. Here, for example, this is the title of the presentation, how Sweeply reduced operating costs by 40% in six months. This is a tangible result directly described within the title. If I would just call this presentation operating costs of Sweeply like most people do in their presentations, if they don't know how to actually write them. The moment you understand that this gives you no information, you start to look differently at titles. If I go a little lower into this presentation, here I have a chart. Instead of just saying our costs, our operating costs, I made a title like before and after, 10.7 million to 6.6 million. Now tangible, understandable data right within the title. In the next lecture, I would like to show you a couple of examples of bad titles and better written titles, and we will try to write an action title together for a sample slide. Let's see each other in the next lecture. 67. 09-03. Action Title Practice: In this lecture, we'll practice writing an action title. You can always take a look at the presentation that I did and maybe not every information here is an action title, but most of the information here is prepared in a way that someone would be able to understand this presentation by just looking at the titles. Here are a couple of examples. Those would be weaker titles and those would be stronger titles, action titles. Battery costs over time. Well, do they change? Do they rise? Do they get lower? Battery swaps cut over costs by 12% in this quarter. Product launch. Sweeply our company launched over in 50 locations. Here, clear information, even with a data point. Customer feedback. Instead of just writing customer feedback, we could have a title like customers rated over 4.9 out of five. This will already make you a better writer, a better content creator and presenter knowing about that. Instead of writing outer expenses, you could directly say that costs drop by 20% after the policy shift. Our presentation, because I didn't mention it, our presentation is about our cost reduction for our Sweeply company due to three strategic changes. We changed the battery, we implemented a remote diagnostic system and we are shipping our products regionally rather than from far outside. Let us try to write an action title. We can practice that. We have a chart here. And we have information what the chart represents. The chart represents graphene battery packs because we changed our lithium batteries to graphin batteries, and this is the change that we did. Okay, let's practice writing an action title. What I would do? I have no year here, but this chart should have a title as well, that this is in dollars, this is a given year. But let's just pretend that we are writing just by having this information. So replacing batteries to graph fine from lithium. Action titles can be written very simply. Just state all the facts and information that you would see at a glance here. Replacing batteries to graphene from lithium allowed us to save 1.6 million roughly. I will not count this exactly now, but roughly about 1.6 million. Quarterly because this is about quarterly results. Let's take it at face value. Now, in case I would delete this chart, reading this title would give you plenty of information about this exact presentation and what this presents. If I have this chart, of course, it's better. But even without this title, I think the chart is understandable enough to see what happened. I should maybe put some kind of line here that we reduce the cost. I would make it red, I would make it bigger. This would maybe look a tiny bit better, but this one should be the first one. Okay. This is one way of writing an action title. If I go back and read what I wrote previously, changing our battery pack technology from lithium to graphene saved more than 1.6 million in quarter 42078, something very, very similar, an action title as well. Please try to write an action title as well. Of course, we could use Copilot as Copilot. We could ask Copilot to write that for us, but we don't want to do this. I want you to practice writing simple action titles yourself. Let's go. 68. 09-04. SCQR Format: In this lecture, I would like to present the SCQR format for you so you are able to organize your presentation. Now, let me go to the slide sorter. I created this presentation, but it follows some kind of format where I state the problem and solution at the beginning, and then I start explaining it with data. This is a simple way how to do the SCQR. The SCQR format stands for situation, complication, question and resolution. The situation would be what is currently going on in our company. The complication is what's giving you challenges and difficulties. The question will be, so how do we solve this issue? And the resolution will be the exact answer that your company came up with or you have in your presentation to show someone the solution. In our presentation, let me show this to you. Made a separate slide on the beginning explaining exactly this. Our company, Sweepy has a great product, our over an outdoor cleaning machine, and Sweeply Rover, demand was growing fast. The biggest difficulties for us to scale is battery costs, maintenance visits, and shipping delays. We didn't know those will exist until we had growing demand. Then both of those things give us limited scaling because how can we keep expanding while cutting operational costs? If we don't do this, we will not be able to sell more units, and we want to sell more units, but we cannot because of the high cost, maintenance, and shipping. Our solution, and I would do this on basically the first slide on our presentation. I'm giving you the solution right away, and in the next lecture, I will explain why. The solution in place we came up with, we redesigned the Sweetly over to be a modular solar powered and locally assembled device, and not only solar powered, we changed the battery from a lithium battery to a graphene battery, which is far cheaper. Even though this is the beginning of our presentation, I gave the answer to my viewers right away. Let me go to the next lecture where we explain the pyramid principle, so you will understand why. 69. 09-05. Pyramid Principle: Okay, we were talking a little bit about the SCQR format, situation, complication, question and resolution, and the other format you can apply to your business presentations and presentations in general will be the Pyramid Principle. The Pyramid principle created by Barbara into, as she was consulting plenty of companies, you should start your presentation with the answer to your entire problem. Solution because this will get people hooked and they don't have to wait until the end of your presentation to get to the real point. So start with the answer first. Don't build up to your point, start with the main message. Then support the message with two to four key arguments. These are the logical reasons why your idea is valid. And then once everyone knows what the solution is, you can back everything up with points and evidence. For example, data, examples or insights from your company. We take a look here in the presentation, I did this trick by telling people exactly the first key point in the beginning of the presentation. We cut costs by 40%. Here's how. You can see the conclusion. Then the supporting points. The supporting points are on the next slide. We implemented three strategic changes to drive cost reduction without sacrificing performance. This is the conclusion, then supporting points, graphene battery upgrade. Remote diagnostic system and regional micro warehouses. Now the evidence, the evidence to support this point is using those batteries, cut per unit power cost by 30%. Using remote diagnostics, reduce technical site visits by 65%. And another evidence if someone wants to hear me out that far, regional warehouses, cut delivery time and costs by 30%. You could, for example, say that you used Amazon Fulfillment centers or something of that sort. Okay. Next slide. Here again, the conclusion is the very first action title that we brought before and after, 10 million to 6 million. Clearly, a big reduction, the supporting points. Strategic changes cut monthly costs across all three main categories. And here's the evidence backed up with data. If someone wants to read and hear me out further, I wouldn't explain this chart. Too much in detail. But if the audience will be interested, yes, I can back up all three changes with data because all three changes had significant cost reductions, and this is the Pyramid Principle in practice. So I used the SCQR format for this presentation, and I presented my data with the Pyramid Principle in mind. I wanted to give the most important information right away to people, make it bold, make it understandable. The supporting facts are somewhere in the bottom, but they are there if someone wants to read them. I hope this is understandable. In the next lecture, I want to show you how the SCQR format and the Pyramid Principle work together in the presentation because the SCQR format, you might think that it would go through your entire presentation and then the Pyramid Principle as well. But aren't they contradicting themselves? The SCQR wants to slowly explain everything and the Pyramid Principle wants to give you the answer directly. Let me answer that in the next lecture. 70. 09-06. Business Slides: In this lecture, I will explain to you how both frameworks work together in presentation, the SCQR framework and the Pyramid Principle. If you remember, the Pyramid principle wants to give you the key point, the key assumption or the key thesis for your presentation right away. Then it on supporting arguments, and then you can back everything up with data. In the SCQR format, however, you want to slowly explain the situation, complication, question, and give the resolution at the end. How to combine both of them together? Well, actually, they fit perfectly. For this very reason, I present the situation complication question and resolution at the beginning of your presentation, meaning that the resolution is the key point stated right at the beginning of the presentation. This is why deliberately in the presentation, not only did I give the main thesis of the presentation right away, we cut costs by 40% in six months. Okay, a state the very first slide. Then the second slide basically gives the resolution right here. So why am I revealing all my cards at the beginning of the presentation? Then the next slide, again, we cut costs by 40%. Here's how. Well, I made a flashy slide, but I wanted to get into the details. Later, I wanted to start the presentation strongly with all the statements. This is because I know that in order to be communicating with good people effectively, I need to give them the resolution and the key points at the beginning else, they will get bored in my presentations. This is how business presentations should be approached. If you take a look at the entire situation, the SCQR could be the opening slide. In our case, this is rising battery maintenance and shipping costs, made scaling unsustainable. People understand my thesis and our problem in our company. Then the key point, main message, 40% in six months reduction, thanks to blah, blah, blah. Thanks to those supporting points, the battery changes, the remote service and the shipping costs. Then if someone still is listening, you can come up with statistics and those more boring things, but they will be further down the line. The main point was made in the beginning of the presentation. So you can use both frameworks together by placing the resolution as the key point of your presentation. Remember, if you want a quick summary, the opening story uses SCQR to set the stage and hook your audience, the Pyramid Principle will start with your key point. This is what I tried to implement into this very simple and short business presentation presenting for Sweeply Company. 71. 10-01. Copilot: Welcome in the section about Copilot, where I will explain you the advantages and disadvantages of Copilot itself. Copilot is available on your home tab on the very right side where it says Copilot. Since sometime the little Skittle, as the Microsoft Team calls it is also above the slide. I would like to start by opening Copilot and creating a simple presentation with you. I will not use this feature because if I click on Create a new presentation here, it will bring up the Microsoft narrative Builder. This is what Microsoft is focusing on, but I will show you this in a few lectures. Let's open Copilot, and let's just start typing. Create a presentation about the best types of bread in some countries. Very vague explanation, and I'll show you the advantages and disadvantages of that. PowerPoint will now automatically create a presentation, but because we already have something here, we need to allow Microsoft to delete our presentation and replace it with a new one. We have very little control over what is being created. We need to take Copilot word for it, but the advantages here are that it will create everything very quickly automatically and put it directly in our presentation for us to fine tune. As you can see, it starts creating. It gives a simple animation at the beginning. This is how currently Copilot works, and it created a complete presentation for us. It select French variables, Italian variables, Mexican bread, and so on, and made a conclusion. Each section, let me show you the slide sorter. The designs of the presentations are similar each time. I am on the Microsoft Creators program, and I get information about new changes to Microsoft Copilot directly, and they'll try to implement, so slides will have more variety. Currently, the slides look mostly an image from the Microsoft Library. Some explanations on the right side, and depending on how much of explanations PowerPoint wants to put in here, it will select the appropriate layout. This is why the presentations look so similar always because PowerPoint approximately wants to place this many texts here, so he needs a template that has enough place for it. This is why he selects a simple layout and creates something like that. This is basic presentation creating with Copilot. Let me go to other topics in the next lecture so you will start to understand the tool more completely. 73. 10-03. Creating Images: In this lecture, we will work a little bit with image generation because I think that the images should be better. I don't want to go too extensively to Mid Journey and Leonardo AI, but I'll tell you what's going on behind the scenes. Here we are in Bink Create. If we go to our profile, I'll select my creations, you can see the Brazilian guide that I just created, Oh, Here's a woman is stored in my account. If I close PowerPoint and open PowerPoint, I have no longer access to it. But if you remember, those photographs were actually good. You can always go to your Bin account, bin.com or type in Google Bink Create. You can go to your account. My creations and decorations will be stored here, even for later use. You can also use, of course, chat GPT. This will change rapidly and over time. But let me do the same, create an image of a Brazilian eating bread in animus anime style I will use in my presentation about bread. What types of bread. This will use the Dali tree model. In theory, it's the same model, but the results will be completely different. You need to also know that the quota for hat GPT, you have three images. I think we can have around three free images daily unless you have a paid subscription for het GPT for the newer models. Let us try to create the same in being create and see whether it will acknowledge to make this in an anime style. You can see with Bin Create, the results are much, much better. But if I went to PowerPoint and I sent the same message here, I hope this will be configured better in the future. But currently, from what I know, the results aren't really listening. I even have an error. I don't know why, but for some reason, it cannot apply currently styles to images. So it's a bit hit or miss, but I wanted to explain this feature. I wanted to explain this feature the best I can to you, so you actually get value from it. As you can see, creating the same images in Bing Create gives you a little bit better results. Here is the image from ChatGPT. I think it's the highest quality, but it took the longest, and it's the most costly because we can only have a couple of images a day. Okay? This will be about the other sources we can create images with. 74. 10-04. Narrative Builder: In this lecture, I would like to explain the Copilot narrative builder for your presentations. When clicking on the Skittle and selecting create a new presentation, it will bring up the window for creating for the Microsoft narrative Builder. The narrative builder let me type a topic here. Most popular board games, top three in the world, and explain each one in a separate section. Even if I wouldn't write this, it always creates those separate sections. You can see exploring the world's most popular board games, chess, monopoly and scrabble. Maybe I'll add another topic. Let me click the plus sign. Topic about introduction to those three most popular board games. Because I don't want to just start out with chess, I would like one additional section about this. Okay? It will add this topic, and I'll add this introduction to the beginning. You can see I can change the places, but I cannot change separate topics. I would need to add a new topic and tell, Hey, remember to have this, this and that and that. Okay, let's say that this is your presentation. It shows you the approximate amount of slides. I'll select generate a presentation, and what it will do, it will do a title slide agenda slide, a section header, like we have here in black, a section header, and two or three slides for each section. Since we have three board games and an introduction, it should be somewhere around 25 slides, I think, or maybe less. I think it will be 20 because this is the most he goes for. Chess one, two, three. Okay. And this is exactly what we got. Look, the title, the agenda section titles and three slides with explanations about each thing. In the future, Copilot will get better. I'll say keep it, and this is how you can start your presentation without knowing much about the topic, but you need to be very mindful that the information that PowerPoint creates here, that Copilot creates are a little bit simple, shallow and not backed up with plenty of data. So I recommend that you cross examine what you did, for example, in chat GPT, so you get a bit more details, a bit more sources and actual data. Start a general presentation, this is perfect, but you need to have in mind that those are very generic informational slides. The narrative builder gets better and better, and it's sure very easy to use. In the next lecture, I would like to talk about another new feature. 75. 10-05. New Slide: In this lecture, I would like to briefly, very briefly talk about this feature called New slide with Copilot. This is a completely new feature. I'm in the Beta channel, so most likely this is why I already got it, and they are trying to very prominently show it on the home tab and on the Insert tab. I'm not sure that this feature will stay like that. But for now, it's here, and I also know that soon PowerPoint will try to give you different types of slides because currently the slides that PowerPoint creates are very similar, but very soon we will have different designs here and different suggestions. Let's select new slide with Copilot, and this is basically a mini version of the Microsoft narrative Builder. We can add a slide about a different board game than the top three. Let's say it like that. Here we have a couple of examples to start our prompt, or you can use a Word file, for example, that you already have on your office account, and it would take the information from it. But I don't have a reference to a file. I'll just use the prompt. Let's see what he comes up with. Discover Carca actually did a different slide about Carcasson and we could use Microsoft Designer to adjust the design a little, but I like to have the image on the side. You can close an open designer on any of the slides, but it's a bit difficult for the slides where the three objects are grouped. We could go for a dark slide, but that's not really very sophisticated design. Okay. This way, this new slide with Copilot allows you to add a slide with one click. It basically will replace going to your Copilot and setting a slide about because you can directly click on it here, and this will probably be promoted with new iterations of Copilot. 76. 10-06. Custom Templates: In this lecture, I would like to show you that you can use your own templates with Microsoft Copilot. If you want to open the resources, open the branded template, template one that I'm giving here. And you can see it looks a tiny bit different than the original templates that Microsoft Copilot created. It always created this black and white slide, but here I made a design. I made a design with different layouts, and the different layouts are for title slide, agenda slide, section slide, content content content, blank and conclusion slides. This is the setup that currently Copilot uses for your presentation. So if you have your own template with plenty of layouts, make sure that you make the names of the layouts understandable to Copilot. Call them title slide, agenda slide, and content slide. And this will make sure it's hit or miss, but it will almost sure that Copilot will use your layout. Let me delete every Okay, let's create a new presentation with Copilot, Microsoft narrative create a new presentation about oranges. I don't want to think about the topic right now. Let's do it about oranges, something simple, and we will do less slide. Okay, I overdone it a little bit. Please delete this, delete this, delete this. Let's maybe make three sections, generate a presentation, and I want to show you that PowerPoint will now use my layout from my template, my color scheme within this presentation. Possibly not all layouts. We'll have an image here. Sometimes we need to add those images by hand, but that's just something that we need to adjust depending on how PowerPoint works. Okay, as you can see, it used my section slide. It used my content slides because I've beautifully prepared the image to be on the side. I've prepared a green box here on the bottom. I prepared the titles to have this underline here. Well, is this a perfect presentation? No, but at least it looks a tiny bit different than the other ones that we have. As you can see, for the title slide, it did the text and everything and for the agenda slide as well, but it didn't insert any picture. Since I have placeholders, this wouldn't be a problem. I can either go here, select stock images and select an image by hand like that, or Microsoft designer will pop up to help me here a little if I want a different designs from my layouts that I have. And additionally, I could go to Copilot and select at an image about something or create an image about something, to create custom images for myself as we did in the previous lectures. This is how you can use your own templates. The most important thing is here that your layout have proper naming, so Copilot will understand what is the title slide and what is the content slide. 77. 10-07. Suggestions: One more thing I need to talk about when using Copilot is using Microsoft Designer on the home tab. But I can also share a glimpse to you that Microsoft Designer won't be forever here. We'll have suggestions that will be within the Copilot area, because designer was an old feature of PowerPoint, and Copilot is a new feature, but they kind of work together because Copilot creates slides and designer tries to make them a little bit more fancy. But those tools will be merged into a Copilot suggestion pan. But that will come later. Designer takes your existing slide, takes a look at your existing layouts. For example, here I have content with picture on the right side, here I have content with picture on the left side, and here on the bottom, I have a different design edit for the conclusion. Copilot or rather designer takes a look at my layouts and proposes to me, Hey, I can take this slide, I can take the text that you have here, and I can take your layout and maybe lay out what you already have in a different way. Do you want a picture on the left side? Maybe I will propose the picture to you on the right side? Because I have that specified in my layout, designer will be capable of doing that. The little problem arises if I add additional shapes here. For example, I wanted a design like that. Now Copilot sadly will no longer understand what's going on on the slide, and designer has no more ideas for me. The moment I delete this, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There is a picture, the text, and the title. I know what to do with it. Well, I wish it worked seamlessly even if I have custom shapes and it would give me beautiful designs. I want to set your expectations to the limitations of designer, but plenty of people really like designer, so you are free to use it, especially if you have very nice layouts that designer will understand if you have clean slides like that. Thank you so much for listening to this lecture. I hope this explained to you how Microsoft Copilot works in general. 78. 11-01. Presenting: In this section, we are going to talk about presenting itself. I'll show you tools that are available in PowerPoint that help you, and I'll show you how to possibly become a better presenter, better communicator, and better speaker. Let's start. 79. 11-02. Presenter View: If you want to follow along, please open the resource file called presenting. In this lecture. I would like to touch on the notes and the presenter view. In PowerPoint, whatever you design, whatever slide you are on, on the bottom, you can open or close notes. Notes allow you to put text in them, put bullet points, you can bold up text, and you can just write in type your notes what you will be saying during presentation and so forth, and so on. Or just make private notes for yourself regarding the slide that you are currently seeing. Those notes can be very useful the moment you present on two different monitors. Let us go to slideshow, and here is a feature called the presenter view. By using presenter view, if there are two monitors, for example, your monitor connected and your audience sees the second monitor, on the second monitor, a presentation will be visible, but on your monitor, let me go to the three dots. Let me enable presenter view right now. This is what you will see. You will see the slide. You will see the next slide that will come in your presentation, the next animation, and you'll actually see your entire note. This would make it so much easier for you to present to tell information that you don't want people to see. You can, of course, enlarge this area, and here on the bottom, you have resizing options so you can make the text bigger if you want to make it more prominent. All the tools that are normally in PowerPoint are available within the presenter view. For example, you can use the pen to write on the slide and you can zoom in onto parts of the slide like that, and you can zoom out by clicking on it. Again. You can disable the presentation if you need to, and you can enable it back. What's very convenient here is that it shows you the time on the left top side. So even if you go to the next slide, it will tell you how long are you already presenting your presentation, which may be very, very convenient. This is for the first lecture. I wanted to show you the presenter view, its capabilities, and how you can use it. 80. 11-03. Recording: In this lecture, I would like to show you the Teleprompter and how to rehearse your timings. In PowerPoint, we have two tabs called slideshow and Recording, where we can work with the timings of our presentation and with recording our actual slides. So everything is prepared for us when actually presenting. Let me rehearse the timing just to see how long will it take to make this presentation to speak. Okay. As you can see in the left top corner, it rehearses the timing. Okay, I would move now forward, and it continues scouting on this slide. I'll stop here, I'll press Escape, and PowerPoint will ask me, do I want to save the timings? I'll click yes, just for a second. And if you go to transitions, now timing has been applied. 10 seconds for the first slide, I will just delete this because actually I don't want this. Okay, zero and IOD select the After and here 7 seconds because it took me 7 seconds. So this is one way how you could rehearse the timings of your presentation and even apply them right away, and the slides would move forward automatically. But you know this is a hit and miss depending if this is a video, for example, for YouTube, then it would be okay. But if this is a live presentation, then probably you won't be exactly to the second. Okay, going back to slide show, I want to show you something about the recording. I'll hit the recording. I don't want from the first slide, I want from the current slide. I'll select from current slide. What this feature allows you to do, it allows you basically the same to record your presentation, but additionally in this nicer view. On the right bottom side, we have three different views. We have the teleprompter view, which shows us the notes in the middle of the screen. They could be even very big. Then we have our presenter view that you already know and really love. And then is the slide view. However, know that if you are in the recording window, I often use present interview. It's like the best for me, but here I cannot resize it. But when I start the presentation and I'm not in the recording and I go to the present review, here I can beautifully resize it. So this is one downside to being on the recording tab. It is how it is. If you want to record your presentation, you can select whether you want to use your microphone and your camera. Since I'm using my microphone to record this lecture, I'll disable it and I can start recording. Three to one, and it will start. Now I could record my presentation. Of course, now it's not listening to my microphone. So basically, this is pointless, but the timings will be there. I can move to the next slide. All right, 3 seconds for the next slide. Let's move to the next slide. One, two, three, and I'll end it here. Okay, my presentation was recorded. I'll exit the recording tab, and if I go to my slides and to my transition, you can see the timings have been again applied because technically I have recorded my presentation. Those are basically movies now, not slides. If I go, for example, to slide number two and I press Shift a five, it should move after 4 seconds. Okay? It went automatically to the third slide. So this step here is basically to rehearse your timings, record your presentation. And decide whether you want to use your presenter view and on which monitor the presenter view will be displayed. You can add subtitles and you can hide slide that you do not want to see. If I select Hight slide, it will be crossed out, but you can also do this here, right click and unhide this slide. Because when you export this to a video, you don't want certain slides to be visible, you can hide them quickly with this function. This is how you go about recording your presentation. 81. 11-04. Exporting Videos in PowerPoint: I was talking about a YouTube video, and let me show you here how you can export things that you only want to be exported. Let's say that you created here a design, a video, you go to transitions. You see, Okay, this slide has 9 seconds, almost 4 seconds, almost 4 seconds. And now for transitions, do we have transitions? Yes, 2 seconds of transition. Okay, let's apply a fade. Let's apply a fade. Let's apply a fade. Okay. I have no additional one. Now I'll have additional 0.7, 0.7, and 0.7 seconds of transitions. So this should make for about 20 seconds video. Okay. But I want only slide two, three, and four. As you know, let me expand everything. Let me press Control A to select all the slides, and I'll go to slideshow and select Height slide. Everything is hidden. Now I'll select those slides. One, I'll press Shift, select this one. So only those three are selected, and I'll unhide only those three because I want my video to be created out of them. To create a video, you can either go to File Export, create a video, and I highly recommend that you select a ultra HD video because this video will be 60 FPS. Now, the second question is use recorded timings and narrations. Yes, definitely, I don't want every slide to be 5 seconds. I want to use the recorded timing and narrations. I can preview them before exporting. The second way to export is actually here on the record button. When I click on the record button, there's a shortcut here on the top side as well. When I click on the record button, there's the Export button, and it takes me directly to this exporting window as well. Video resolution is set to ultra four KHD. I will export this to my desktop, and we will preview the result. Okay, the video has rendered. As you can see, it's almost 20 seconds, as I said, 8.5 seconds for this one, then the fade 1 second, then 3.5 seconds of the second slide. The fading took 0.7 seconds. Now 3.5 seconds for this one, 3.5 seconds for this one, and this will be the end of our video. Imagine if you had animations and beautiful designs here, this could be a ready video for your YouTube. It would be nice if you recorded audio as well, but I'm using my microphone currently to record this lecture, so I cannot do this. Thank you so much for listening to this lecture. Let us go forward and talk about something else. 82. 11-05. Cameo: This lecture, I would like to show you how I prepare myself for presenting. And for example, let us try to present the business slides that we did previously. We will go either to the slide show tab and select record or just go to the record tab and record from current slide because here I was just preparing. This is the actual real slide that we will record from. Before doing so, I will clear the record on all slides because I want to have a clean slate, no transitions, no timings. I will now go to record from current slide, and it would allow me to record this presentation. I will not use my microphone and not use my camera. I could record them. Additionally, one more thing. If you use a camera, you can use Cameo. Cameo is a little object that will show yourself in the camera. So if you would like to be recorded as well, you can put it here. Of course, my camera is now using to record this lecture, but I could have myself speak in the presentation, and this can be a rounded shape or a different shape as PowerPoint allows us to do. Alright, we could insert this into all our slides. Okay, let me record from the current slide. I'll hit the recording button because let's pretend that I am ready and I know approximately the timings, and I'll see now the animations. Welcome. We are Sweetly company. We are a company that creates outdoor equipment, cleaning outdoor equipment with our newest release Rover, we face some challenges, and with this presentation, I would like to show you how we overcome those challenges. In the last six months, we were able to cut our manufacturing and operating costs by 40%. In this presentation, I'll show you how we did that. Let me continue to the next slide where I'll paint the entire picture to you. Why did we have to rethink the over rollout? The Rover is our next big launch, and we had to rethink everything we do about this because its battery was a bit too expensive. It turned out that we have a lot of maintenance. We always need to go to our clients to help them, even with the simplest issues like resetting the device. And additionally, shipping costs made our scaling unsustainable. Presenting it like that way, the growing demand is both a blessing and a problem at this stage. The difficulties were, as I said, the battery costs, the maintenance visits, and the shipping delays. This made for limited scaling for us. We are a fast growing company. We would like to scale, but those three problems didn't allow us to scale at the pace that we wanted, but luckily, we already have a solution in place, and I would like to present this solution to you. We actually redesigned the sweep over to be modular, to be solar power, to have a different battery pack, and to be locally assembled in smaller warehouses. Everything that we did allowed us to cut costs by 40%. Let me show you how with some data. We implemented those three strategic changes that I've mentioned without sacrificing the performance of our entire company. The first big change was the battery pack. We changed a lithium battery to a graphene battery. This cut per unit power cost by 40%. And allowed us to be more efficient with our money. We implemented a remote diagnostic system into our device. Now we can reset the device without sending someone to do this to our clients. And the last big thing, regional microwarehouses cut our delivery time and costs by another 30%. To put that into perspective into numbers, before we've spent about 10.7 million monthly on all those three segments, but currently we are spending around 6.6 million. We save around $4 million each month on doing those changes. If you would like to see this on a chart on data, this is the graphene battery upgrade. It allows us to save more than 1.6 million. The remote diagnostic system allowed us to save another million 200,000 on top of it. And I'm especially proud about this one. And the regional Micro warehouses was the next step. It had to happen, and even if we wouldn't save as big on it, but it turned out that the savings were tremendous. So those three strategic changes allowed us to have one game changing impact on our company. Thank you for listening. I hope this brought a little bit more information about Sweepy company, about our over product, about how we distribute it, about the changes that we made, and we look forward to grow as a company. And if you may have any questions, I'm ready to answer them. Okay, finished. I managed to talk through this presentation in about 4 minutes, 20 seconds. I would save the timings. I would exit this slide right now. And if I go to my transitions, you can see all the durations have been applied, and I could basically hit File, Export, and export this entire presentation as a video. I know that this video would take about 5 minutes. This is how you record your presentations and prepare for it. Thank you for listening to this lecture. 83. 12-01. EMF, SVG Vector Files: In this lecture, I would like to talk about vector graphics and what can be done with them. After selecting a vector graphic on the top side, it will say graphics format. This was after some updates in PowerPoint because previously it just showed shape format. Since PowerPoint 2019, you can import SVG vector graphics into PowerPoint. Previously, you could only import EMF files, so we had to convert SVG and EPS files into EMF, and then we could use them in PowerPoint. A vector graphic can have its color change. But as you can see here, since those are plenty of shapes within one vector graphic, they would change the color all at once. What I would need to in order to be able to change the color separately, I would need to click on the graphic, right click, group and ungroup it. In this moment, when we ungroup this SVG graphic, it becomes a native PowerPoint Microsoft drawing object, a native PowerPoint shape. And now I could change the color of each shape separately, like I get it here on the right side, for example, this icon is made of plenty of different shapes, but I could click on each of them and I could change the color, for example, to green, the hand, green, and the hand in the back, if I'm able to click on it, green as well. This green would be green. This would be okay, green. Now I could possibly group them back again. Control G, control G, control G, because I don't want to have so many separate elements. I'll group this together, and I could move this around. Depending on the vector, you can see how many objects are here, how many layers. So it would be far more convenient if I'm able to group this entire person, and now I could move this as one object, but it remains a shape format because this is already a shape within PowerPoint. Same comes for icons. If you import vector icons into PowerPoint, or you go to insert icons and you insert a native icon from the Microsoft library, like for example, this alien, the alien will be a graphics format too. We can ungroup this, but this wouldn't do anything else for us because it is still one shape, one layer, and I can recolor it. But even if this would be still a vector graphic, I can recolor it as well. So this is how you use vector objects in PowerPoint. If you would like to practice this, I have this vector file as SVG, you can dragon drop to it into your PowerPoint. And if you have at least PowerPoint 2019, you will be able to work with it. It will natively work in PowerPoint. 84. 12-02. Edit Vector Points: In this lecture, I would like to talk about editing the Vector Points. You may already know this, but this is the original file, and let's say that you want to slightly alter it. Let me duplicate this slide. Let me delete this and let me try to do something else. Let's say that I have this object, I'll press Control G. I'll make this bigger, and I press Control Shift G to ungroup this again. Okay, I could take the face, for example, I could right click and select Edit points. Let's say that I want a nose here, I would right click Add point, and I'm starting to create a nose. Well, if it's not perfect to you, you can add point Okay. And let's maybe make this more rounded. If I'm able to come closer and click on it, Okay, a more rounded, a more funny nose. Alright, beautiful. If you want to add an e, of course, you could add a shape on top of it, for example, an I like that. Shape outline, no outline shape fill. White, duplicate this shape fill black. And this way, you could possibly alter something that you already have if you are able to. We could do small adjustments like that to any object we have here, but remember how many objects are here. If you want the boots to be bigger, you can either drag them around or right click edit the Vector Points, just so you know any type of shape and PowerPoint, you can go to Edit Shape, and you can edit its points because those are basically vector objects within PowerPoint. We can edit those points. We can make those points rounded. Here, both sides work independently. But remember, you can rightly go a point and you can select it to be a smooth or straight point. A smooth point will try to be as smooth as possible when the bezier handles are connected now together. But I prefer them to work independently. I very often go for a corner point because this allows me to work with the right side and with the left side of the point separately. Okay. But going back to the boot, if you would like to enlarge it, I would probably edit its points. It would be a lot of hassle because in this case, it has a lot of points. You can also delete points if you feel they aren't necessary here, but I wanted to show you that it is possible to make those adjustments within PowerPoint and play with this around. This lecture, I would like you to maybe work on the boots, maybe add something to the face. Here, for example, I also it I. Here, I did change the hair a little bit. It all depends on the icon that we use. The more complex the icon, the more difficult it is to change. But for a simple icon like we have here, there are many elements, but not so many that we cannot change them. Try to do this yourself, try to edit the points so you get a feel for this. 85. 12-03. Merging Shapes: In this lecture, I would like to talk about merging shapes. I know that you may already know about merging shapes, but here, I would like to extract the sun and extract, for example, the plants here or one of the plants. If you find an icon and you want to extract a part of it, I will duplicate this icon. I'll press Shift Control G to ungroup it, okay? And I have plenty of different items here. Now, the sun wouldn't be a problem. I can control G, the sun. And boom. Now, what about the plant? You can see the plant is connected with this object. I'll delete this object. The way I could extract it possibly would be by going to insert shape. Insert just a shape on top of it, or maybe this is too long. I will insert a shape like that. I'll insert another shape to cut off the left side as well. Now I'll select the plant first, shift. Click on this, click on this shape format, merge shapes, and I would like to subtract them. We can see some little problems on the bottom, but we can adjust that in a second. I can either in our right click, select Edit points, and I can edit the unnecessary points. I would delete this point, I would delete this point, I would delete this point, and I would try to make this even. If I wouldn't be able, I would add another shape and try to cut this off evenly. Is what I would like you to achieve for this lecture. Please try to extract those two items. Another thing I use a lot of merging for my designs is, for example, if I do something with morphing or a design like that where it gets into the middle of my slide. I will right click, select Edit points. Let me, for example, do a design like that. And I don't like that it goes above the slide here. I would like this to be evenly cut. For that, I'm inserting a rectangle. I even have a shortcut for the rectangle. I insert the rectangle here, control the I'll try to rotate it with my shift key. I insert another rectangle here. Beautiful. Let me show you this on a different color. Now I click on the main object. I press shift, I click on the other object, and this way, I cut out the part that is standing outside of the slide. Merge shapes, you can either go for fragment or for subtracting. Let me this time show you fragment. Fragment divides the shapes with each intersection because they intersected at so many places, so many shapes have been created, but it's just the same. You can delete them, and you have this one beautiful shape being on the edge of the slide and not going outside of the s well, if you present, you wouldn't see it anyway, but I prefer my slide to be clean, and if I have the time to do so, I'm doing this cutting. Please try to replicate the steps in this lecture so you get even more familiar with merging tools, and I recommend that you create a couple of shapes. For example, two, you change their color, you select both of them. Merged shapes and see what happens when you select all of the features here. There's nothing complicated. Union makes one together, combine tries to combine both of them and intersects them in the middle. Fragment divides them into separate objects wherever it cuts itself, intersect shows only the intersection and subtract the most used one, subtracts one from the other. In reality, subtract is the most used one. On the second place for me is union and sometimes fragment if I have difficulties getting the subtraction right. Thank you for listening to this lecture. Let us continue to another topic. 86. 12-04. Videos in PowerPoint: In this lecture, I would like to talk about videos in PowerPoint. They are a bit of a mystery to some people. I don't know why. So let's explain this. I see I have locked this video in order for this to be a background for me so I cannot click on this. If you want to practice completely from scratch, I addit this into the resource files. Please take this video and just paste it into PowerPoint. I'll go to the selection pane and I'll delete the existing video that is in the background. The locked one. Okay, I will unlock. And I'll just delete it. Okay, let's take the video. By default, a video and PowerPoint. When you go to animations, it has already multiple animations on them. What does that mean? If I go to the animation pane, you can see I have two animations on this video. I have a play animation and a stop animation. This means that once I play my presentation, if I click on this video, it starts playing, and if I click on it again, it stops playing. Those are trigger animations that trigger when I click on this very shape. In our case, the shape is the video. You can see it is a trigger animation by seeing this lightning effect. You can add trigger animations here on the right side. Those are things that happen when you click on something. Okay, I'll delete the trigger animations. I'll click on the video, and I'll just give it a play animation, a normal play animation. Now this play animation will happen when I click my mouse, no matter where. Okay, I have my mouse here, I click, and the video starts playing. But I would like this video to be a background for myself. I'll take the video here, I'll enlarge the video to the entire screen. I'll put it as the first animation. I'll select start with previous. But because the video is 16 seconds long, it will stop playing when it ends, and I would like this to be a background to continue on. I'm not sure if this is a perfect loop, but I would like this video to be rewinded when it stops playing. For that, you can go to Playback, and here you have a couple of features that will allow you to do exactly that. At first, I want this video to loop until it stops. It can be rewind. It doesn't matter because it will rewind anyway. Hi to I not playing and play a full screen. We don't need to click on play at full screen because it already covers the entire screen. We can select whether we want a fate at the beginning or end, but I don't want any animations. I want this video just to be playing. One thing you can do, however, is trim the video. You do the same for music. You can trim it to start from a certain point, for example, from second number five, and you could press Okay if this is the part where you want the video to start. But I would like this video to start from the beginning. Now when I play my slide, shift at five. It will play in the background. If I move my mouse, you can see the entire video. Let me rewind it a bit forward. Now it will rewind and it will play over and over again. Now the reason I lock this video is because I would like this to be a background for myself. Right click Send to back. Okay. I want this to be a background. I open the selection pan and I lock it down. Way, I cannot click on it, and I can start working on the design of the slide. For example, adding text, adding animations. Let's add a gradient to make this look a bit more mysterious. Let's use a dark gradient. This is just an example of what you could do format shape, fill options. I'll go for a gradient for a black gradient. Let me delete colors. Let me add first color black, second color black. That direction, I would like the direction to be left to right, but we don't see which one is which. I'll change the color. Now we see it. I would black to purple, beautiful, and the purple, change it bed to black. I'll now make the transparency 100%, and I'll move this a bit forward. So we'll get those darker atmosphere. Press Control D, I flip this around. Oh I can see I have an outline here. Algo shape outline. No outline. And we could get this completely different style. Maybe not for the text, sent to if I go to the selection pane, the rectangle should be above the video, and this is how we made a nice gradien. Oh, we see the outline here because the left object has an outline. Click on the left object, shape format. No outline, and this should be it now, right? We have a beautiful, dark video in our background. We could move forward with animations with design using this gradient on the left and right side. This is just a small addition and we could have a completely unique style here in PowerPoint. I would possibly duplicate this video. Now I would unlock this video planet, and let's say that let me make this rectangle invisible. I'll take the video, and I'll scroll. I'll enlarge this. This is a low quality file, so it won't look great, but I want to show you the possibilities that we place that now here. Go to transitions, select Morph. We would have this beautiful morphing. Maybe the text would be going away out of the screen. I will go to animations. I'll open the animation painting, and I make sure that there is no animation on the text. This way, it will move outside of the screen when we go to transitions and use the Morph transition. Okay, this would be my final slide. I would have the text animated in, and I deleted the animation on the next slide because I want this to move out of it with MRF. Morph would give us this effect, and the video would continue playing. Way, you could make some unique presentations. But the one problem I see is that the moment I press my next Mouse button, it stops the video, and it transfers to the video from the beginning. So depending on the video you have, it might be a bit choppy in the moment where Morph happens. This is what I wanted to show you how you play with videos within PowerPoint. 87. 12-05. Aspect Ratio: Some of your presentations, some of your videos may need a different aspect ratio. For example, if you design something, a video for a phone, for example, for YouTube short, you can adjust the aspect ratio of your slides by going to the design tab. If you remember, on the design tab, we have our template. We have our variants for colors, for fonts, for predefined effects, but I'm not really a fan of that. And for our background, the four defined background colors we have on our template. But there is slide size. On this slide size, we can select a standard four by three, like we used to have and a wide screen 16 by nine, but we can also customize this. Depending on the system we use, I use centimeters, but if I would like inches, I could have 20 inch. It would directly translate to centimeters for myself and here 20 inch as well. Okay. I have a 50 by 50 slide right now. I'll press Okay. It asks me, what should it do with the existing media? Should it maximize the media or should it make the media smaller so it fits? Because I'm going for a bigger look, let me maximize the media, especially because we had the videos here. Well, PowerPoint didn't do a great job, so I would need to adjust that by hand. What I'm left with is a different aspect ratio, but you need to know that the aspect ratio is for this entire PowerPoint file. You cannot change the aspec ratio for individual slide. Is not an art board. This is a presentation, and all the slides will have the same aspect ratio. We can go for the slide, custom size. For example, the width could be 1080, 1080 pixels, and the height would be 1920 pixels. I would press Okay, and let's maximize them. And now I would have this vertical view for my slides. This is something to know about. I think you should adjust this right at the beginning depending on what you want to achieve. Not, you'll have some work to adjust the items to put them back together, for example, to be visible. You know the drill. You've probably edited a video in your life, and you know what happens when you change the aspect ratio. This is everything about the feature. There's nothing more complicated. Remember, it's on the design tab and here within the slide size. Thank you and see you in another lecture. 88. 12-06. Inkscape or Illustrator: In this lecture, I would like to show you how you can use Inkscape or Illustrator to get different designs inside of PowerPoint. This is an advanced thing, I would say, but further down the road, sooner or later, you will have to install Inkscape. It is a completely free vector editing program, and the problem I have with PowerPoint that we are limited to those tools. Even if PowerPoint adds new tools in the future, well, I think the software will be still limited, especially, for example, let's look at a triangle. Can move a triangle, but how do I make rounded corners on a triangle? How do I make sure that the rounded corners are even? How do I adjust the items perfectly? Yes, I can go to edit points, but that's not really the thing what I want to do. I don't want to always by hand, do this and guess if my roundness will be perfect. This is why you probably have to see me now, okay? Let's hide myself. This is why you possibly will use inscape. I'm sure of it. Inkscape, for example, let's go to the star and polygon tool. Let's make one object. I'll have to hit my Control key. I'll hit my Control key to be even here on Inkscape with Control and let's go for three point object. Let me deselect the tool and let's go here for a maybe six corners object. This is a six corners object. I will change this. I don't want this to be treated as a shape anymore. I will go to Path and select object to path. Now when I select my nodes tool, you can see I have my different notes. There's a feature in Inkscape that allows you to round the corners at corner you can either click on this button in newer versions of Inkscape or within the PAD effect, you can just add the corners effect corners. Okay, I'll add the corners effect. The corner effect allows you either to drag and make the corners around it or make it for the entire shape at once, and it would be nearly impossible to make something like that in PowerPoint. We need to combine several shapes to do it. And look how easy it is here. I could now adjust individual corners or, for example, because I converted to a pad, I'll select my shift key. I'll select the three top nodes. I'll select change only selected. Let's make those the radius of 15. Okay, beautiful. Now I have a custom shape, and the most beautiful thing about this is I can press Control C. I can get into PowerPoint and I can put that in as a native graphics format shape because this is now a vector. You can see it's transparent and it's treated as a graphics format. That's not a problem. We can go to format graphic. You can see the transparency can be either turned off. Or you know the drill, you go to group, group, and now this becomes a native Microsoft PowerPoint drawing object and normal PowerPoint shape. This way, I could increase or decrease the transparency. I could change the shape, fill to anything I want. I could give it effet or I could give it a gradient if I would need to do so. But with a couple of mouse clicks and with Control C and Control V, I was able to do this in Ink. Same goes for this triangle. Let me quickly add the corners effect. Without even turning this into a path, I'll increase the radius, and this easy, you could have a triangle with rounded corners. If this is what you need for your designs, I did this here even for a template, I have a triangle. How could you do a picture placeholder like that. Well, with subtraction, of course, let me copy this object. Let me go to view, Slide Master, select a new layout, and this layout will have, let's say, a picture layout. Okay. I'll put the triangle here. Let's say that this is in line with the designs that I'm doing. I'll put the triangle perfectly in the middle. If I'm not able to do so, I'll use my center center functions. Oh, before I do so, I need to make sure it's no longer a graphics format. I need to convert this to a native PowerPoint shape, group, group, okay? Now this is a shape format. So the object behind it is a shape because a placeholder is treated as a shape. The triangle is a shape, I'll shift, click on the triangle. I'll go to shape format, merge shapes, and I'll intersect it. Subtracting would just subtract it from the middle. I'll intersect it, and now I have a completely custom placeholder. If I click away, it will show you this triangle. If I click on it, it shows the square rectangle. But if you unselect it, it becomes this unique picture placeholder. Then new slide, right click, layout. I'll select the layout. And this is how those sophisticated templates with custom shapes are created and how custom shapes are brought into PowerPoint. Most likely, they created in some vector software, like, for example, Inkscape. 89. 12-07. Saving Fonts: In this lecture, I want to show you how to save funds into your presentation. For this presentation, I've selected the Poppins Semi Bolt and PopinsFund, but I'm not sure that people to whom I will send this presentation will have the funds installed on their system. For that reason, you can go to file Options, save. And here on the bottom, you can select whether you want to embed the fonts inside of this presentation, whether you only want to embed the characters because this is a ready presentation and you don't want anyone to touch it, it is only for reading view, then you can embed only the characters. But I recommend that you embed all characters if the font allows it, because some fonts are protected and some fonts don't the very often used ones, the popular ones, the free for commercial use ones like railway open Sands, pop ins. They work perfectly. If I save this presentation and someone else opens it, it will display the Pop ins font, even if the person doesn't have the PopinsFont installed on his system. Please remember about that. Everywhere you send your presentation or even with your different devices, if you send it to your laptop and your laptop doesn't have the font installed, this would be a good way to transfer the font inside of this PowerPoint file. Note, it will not magically install on your system. It will be only inside of this PowerPoint file. 90. 13-01. Finding Media: In this section, I'll show you the best places to find media mostly free to use for your projects, images, color schemes, icons, you name it. Let's watch the lectures. 91. 13-02. Free Pictures: Of course, the design of the website will change over time, but I want to give you a very general overview. My number one is unsplash.com. This started as a free library where people were uploading their images. Currently, it has a premium feature that is called Unsplash plus, but you don't have to use it if you, for example, type in office. Plenty of completely free images, those without this plus sign. You can select the license to be Unsplash plus or free. Now only free images will display. You can take any image, you can download it here for free, even in a different size. My number two is Pixels. Paxels is the same. It's a beautiful library of photos and videos. You can search for oranges or anything you would like to search for. And here you can sort By popular and filter out different sizes and orientations. As you can see, the images are very beautiful and there is almost an infinite amount of them, and all of them are completely free. Please always take a look at licenses on those websites because something might change over time, but currently, and I think it will stay that way, it's completely free to use. Attribution here is not required, which is beautiful. It's under a creative commons CC zero license. The next beautiful website is Pixeby and Pixabay is a monster because it highlights so many categories. But in this lecture, I wanted to talk about photos, and this is my next stop for photos if I haven't found them already on OSlash or Pixels. I also use premium resources because I have an Envato elements subscription. So for most of my project, I go there because I know that premium content will be there, and sometimes the problem is with those free websites that plenty of people use the same images in their presentations and media. We have such a big selection that it shouldn't be a big issue, and the quality here is perfect. You can download any kind of picture, and what I like that we can change the size immediately to a smaller one so it isn't as heavy on your PowerPoint. You can download this picture or you can even select Copy image. You can get inside of PowerPoint, press Control V, and the image is already here. Alternatively, you can also insert, of course, the pictures from the stock images, and, for example, I have a pixels adding that I added, but I'm not a fan of this adding because shows you only a couple of pictures if I search for something here, so I prefer to go to the website, to have my big screen, to have all the options, and use it there. 92. 13-03. Free Vectors: I in this lecture, we'll talk about vectors, especially free vectors that you can use for your presentations. One of the best websites I know about that is storset.com. This is a part of the freepik company. Freepik is a very powerful website, and this is one of their projects. You have beautifully made vectors here, and what's beautiful about them that every situation that you see, you have put with different characters like we have Bro, we have Amico, we have Pena, and you can switch the characters to have the same type of scene, and you can hide the background. For example, you see the background here. I can hide the background. I can make a simple background or the detailed background. Most often I go for the simple or hidden if I am using those icons in PowerPoint. Then I can hide certain characters. I can hide certain layers like the shadow below. This website requires attribution, but look at the quality that you get. You can download it as a PNG or an SVG. And this is beautiful because an SVG could be ungrouped and the colors can be changed. However, if you have a set color in your presentation, you can also use the set color and place it already here, and then you can download a ready image that will work well with your presentation. The next website, undo.co. This is another beautiful website, and this one is completely free. It doesn't even require attribution. This is a project from a designer, Katerina, and I think that she did the icons kudos to them, browse now the same way, you can search for a different color that will go in line with your presentation, for example, red, and you have beautiful beautiful icons. There are currently 40 pages of those icons, and this is a growing library. Beautiful images, you can download SVG images. The next svg repo.com. I use this for icons. For example, BC and you have beautiful PC icons free to use as well, a beautiful website. Then vets.com. This is a more sophisticated website when it comes to vectors. It has more advanced vectors, and most likely they will be in EPS format. Those EPS vectors would need to be converted to SVG in order to work in PowerPoint. Or you could, for example, use Illustrator to open them up as EPS and save them as SVG or EMF, so they work in PowerPoint. Next free Pick. Freepik is also a website with vectors. It's from the same family that story set, which I explained to you. Here you can find different kinds of vectors, but those will be mostly EPS as well. And the last one, slides go, another website from the Freepik company. This is a website dedicated to PowerPoint, where you can download some very good looking templates. Some of them are a premium, some of them are free. For example, here, you can see this crown informs you that this is a premium template. But, for example, this one is a free one. Well, maybe it's not perfect, but it would get you going inside of PowerPoint if you need those ready designs and you are a fan of templates. Those are the best websites I know to use ready items and vectors for PowerPoint. 93. 13-04. Free Icons: When it comes to finding icons, flat icon.com will be your best pet. This is a premium website, but it has some icons free as well. If you go to those icons, you have icon packs, you have separate icons, and all of them are so beautiful. What's even better that this is a premium pack, so you would need to buy it. But you have a PNG, you have an SVG, and you can edit the icon directly here within flat icon. If I search for APC, I can have, of course, very simple and diverse different icons all around. If I click on the icon, I can download the P&G version for free. The SVG version is a premium. I would need to attribute this, but this wouldn't be a big problem because I'm getting such a beautiful icon. The next one is Icon finder, and Iconfinder was bought from another company. I think it was bought from a flat icon, if I'm not mistaken. Here, for example, if I go for A PC, I can go for no ink back. This will show me completely free icons to use that I could download and use for my project. Some of them are free, some not, and I can download this PNG image or copy the PNG to my clipboard. And because I have it on my clipboard, I could press Control V, and this icon is directly pasted into my PowerPoint. I would just need to put the link somewhere below where I took this icon from, and I'm ready to go. And the last website would be SVG Repo. SVG Repo has a bit of vectors, but it's perfect for those icons. So those are the three main websites I use for icons if I don't use Vato elements. 94. 13-05. Free Videos: If you need free videos for your projects, I will highly recommend, of course, Pixabay. And all the other categories, I will recommend Pixabay as well because this is a website with free content. So you can search for videos like we already have some videos here and you can download them in different resolutions so they don't are too heavy on your PC and on your presentations. The next website will be VID Easy, just like you have VT easy for vectors, you have Vt Easy for completely free videos to use. There is a pro license, but I haven't been using it. I'm always using the free version of it Easy. And the last websites would be, of course, pixels because we have both beautiful photographs and beautiful videos that we can use for our presentations and our media. Let's go for a laptop, and you have beautiful videos that you could use inside of your presentations. You could download them in different resolutions. This is by now a standard for our website, and those are the websites that I use mostly. 95. Congratulations!: Thank you so much for arriving at the end of this course. I hope you've learned a ton about PowerPoint, about different topics, about business presentations, about storytelling, about slight creation, about animations, and many more things related to PowerPoint and not related to PowerPoint to make you a better presenter, communicator, designer, and know where to get your media. If you would like to continue learning with me, I have plenty of PowerPoint courses that expand different areas like business presentations or animations or slide design to an expert level. For now, however, big congratulations on completing this PowerPoint complete guide. You should be equipped with all the skills needed to create presentations, videos, and different animations. If you ever need to dig deeper or further, please let me know. Thank you so much again for listening, and I'll see you another time.