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Infografías en PowerPoint: crea infografías de alta calidad en PowerPoint de forma rápida y fácil

teacher avatar Alan Lomer, POWERPOINT DESIGNER AND TEACHER

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introducción

      1:59

    • 2.

      Una infografía circular con un gráfico de torta

      6:28

    • 3.

      Adaptación de la infografía a otros datos

      5:23

    • 4.

      Presentación de datos en cuatro paneles

      6:36

    • 5.

      Alejándose de un círculo completo

      5:54

    • 6.

      Ejemplo en forma de arco con una foto

      5:31

    • 7.

      Gráfico de gauge angular

      7:30

    • 8.

      Diseño de capa de bloques 3D

      9:21

    • 9.

      Pasos isométricos 3D

      6:21

    • 10.

      Diagrama de escalera elegante

      5:05

    • 11.

      Pasos circulares 3D

      8:33

    • 12.

      Cuatro paneles simples

      6:25

    • 13.

      Cintas de perspectiva 3D

      9:18

    • 14.

      Una línea de tiempo cronológica lineal

      8:04

    • 15.

      Línea de tiempo de flecha curva con fotos

      10:31

    • 16.

      Cómo usar mapas integrados de PowerPoint

      5:36

    • 17.

      Mapa del mundo estilizado

      8:29

    • 18.

      Gráfico pictórico basado en iconos

      5:50

    • 19.

      Porcentajes pictóricos con fotos

      4:58

    • 20.

      Creación de una infografía a partir de una imagen grande

      6:15

    • 21.

      Usa fotos para agregar impacto

      8:52

    • 22.

      Comparación simple

      9:28

    • 23.

      Resumen

      0:26

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Las infografías son una forma poderosa de comunicar información de una manera visualmente atractiva y cautivadora. Se pueden usar para contar historias, explicar conceptos complejos o simplemente hacer que los datos sean más interesantes.

Para diseñar una buena infografía, necesitas:

  • Ten claro cuál es tu objetivo para la infografía.
  • Asegúrate de tener los datos relevantes para contar tu historia a tu público
  • Usar un lenguaje claro y conciso para que tu infografía sea fácil de leer y entender
  • Mantenerlo simple para que la audiencia pueda comprender el concepto con facilidad

Este curso te enseñará ejemplos que cubren muchos diseños de infografía comunes.
Veremos:

  • Diseñar una infografía que sea visualmente atractiva y fácil de entender
  • Visualiza tus datos creando infografías llamativas pero simples
  • Usar tipografía y color efectivos
  • Cómo crear diseños impactantes desde cero directamente en PowerPoint

Este curso es perfecto para cualquier persona que quiera aprender a crear infografías efectivas y exitosas.

Soy un diseñador de presentaciones que ha usado PowerPoint durante más de 20 años y en este curso te mostraré cómo puedes diseñar rápidamente infografías desde cero usando las formas, texto e imágenes estándar de PowerPoint

Los ejemplos cubren:

  • Conversión de gráficos circulares en infografías circulares
  • Usar formas estándar para crear diseños isométricos 3D
  • Creación de formas personalizadas para agregar profundidad y diseños más complejos
  • Diseña líneas de tiempo desde cero
  • Cómo usar fotos en tus infografías
  • Saca el máximo partido a los mapas de PowerPoint
  • Incorporación de iconos y formas vectoriales

Todos los ejemplos se incluyen para su descarga en la sección de 'Recursos'. 

Espero que disfrutes de la clase y por favor ponte en contacto con nosotros si tienes alguna pregunta o sugerencia. ¡Gracias! Alan.

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Animaciones avanzadas en PowerPoint vol. 2: 6 tutoriales de animación de siguiente nivel para inspirarte

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Domina los gráficos en PowerPoint: crea impresionantes diapositivas usando formas, dibujo, 3D e ilustraciones.

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Alan Lomer

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Hi, I'm Alan and I am here to help you master PowerPoint. My goal is to help you take your presentations to the next level, engage your audience & get your message across with maximum impact.

Everything you need to create stunning presentations can be done inside PowerPoint and I am here to help you do this.

I have been designing for over 30 years and have helped hundreds of people and companies tell their story through slide presentations.

I will help you gain an understanding of presentation design skills that took me years to learn and develop.

Throughout the courses I will give you simple effective advice to help you design better presentations.

I hope you enjoy the courses.

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1. Introduction: Infographics are a powerful way to communicate information in a visually appealing and engaging manner. They can be used to tell stories, explaining complex concepts, or simply make data more interesting. To design a good infographic, you need to be clear on what your objective for the infographic is. Make sure you have the relevant data to tell your story to your audience. Use clear and concise language to make your infographic easy to read and understand. Keep it simple so the audience can grasp the concept easily. This course will teach you examples covering many common infographic designs. We will look at designing an infographic that is visually appealing and easy to understand. Visualizing your data by creating striking but simple infographics using effective topography and color, and how to create impactful designs from scratch directly in PowerPoint. This course is perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to create an effective and successful infographics. Hi, I'm Alan, a presentation designer who's been using PowerPoint for over 20 years. In this course, I will show you how you can quickly design infographics from scratch using the standard shapes, text, and imagery available in PowerPoint. The examples cover converting pie charts to circular infographics, using standard shapes to create 3D isometric layouts. Creating custom shapes to add depth and more complex designs. Designing timelines from scratch, using photos in your infographics, making the most out of PowerPoint maps and incorporating icons and vector shapes. I hope you enjoy the course and please get in touch with me if you have any questions. 2. A circular infographic using a pie chart: Using a pie chart for the basis of an infographic is a great idea as it saves time, creates exact circular sections and allows a lot of flexibility. If you want to show how a number of things come together to achieve a goal or contribute to an overall end goal, then this type of infographic could work for you. So we'll start with a standard doughnut chart by going to Insert chart. Hi, one, donut. This infographic. I only want to use the data to create the shapes. I want them to be equal sizes. So I'm just going to type in six values that are all one. So that's the shape I want. I can now close the data, click on the title and press Delete, and then click on the legend and press Delete. If I right-click on this, I can go to Format Data Series and change the size of the hole. And I'm going to choose 50 per cent. And I'm also going to go to the fill 2s border solid line, and select white and ten point. So there's the basis of our info graphic shape. We are looking for ways to make it more visually interesting without being distracting or complicating the story unnecessarily. Also moving away from a standard pie chart that your audience may have seen hundreds of times before. So to do this, I'm going to add a circle like this, white with no outline. In the fill options. I'm going to make it 50% transparent. And in the Size and Properties, I'm going to make it 8.75. Now when I align that to the middle, you'll see it gives a nice effect. From here, we're going to add arrows pointing to each of the segments. A quick way of doing this is going to insert shapes. And then choosing the six-point star from the stars and banners section. And we can click anywhere to add it. Align it to the middle. Scale it up using Control and Shift. And I want the points of the star to be pointing in the middle of the gaps. So to do that, I can just bring it in slightly from either side. Then make sure it's aligned to the middle. Next, we're going to rotate this so we can go to size and type 30 degrees. Then fill it in in white and make sure there's no outline. So now we've created arrows which show the sections that are linked to the main concept from the middle. To save time, I'm going to paste in an icon and some texts for the center part. This is the main thing the infographic is about. Now, I'll show you some ideas for how you can make the individual sections look good. So now I'm going to add icons for each of the sections. I can go to Insert Icons. I'll select this graph and click Insert, drag it up into position, size it down a bit with Control and Shift. Then make it white. Now we'll go to shadow and add some drop shadow. This will give it a sense of depth. But it's good to be quite subtle with this. So I'm going to up the transparency to 80%. Looks good. Again, to save time, I'll paste in the other icons. Now, we can add text for each section. In too much text will not look good if he tried to position it on the actual slices. So in this first example, I'm going to make some areas of the titles and extra text. To connect these. I'm just going to use some basic lines. So I'm going to draw a line from this first segment all the way across and then make it a bit wider to 0.25 point or do. To make the other ones, we can hold down control and shift. Again, hold down Control and Shift and drag. Then if I shift click to select all three of them, I can go to a line and choose distribute vertically. Then if I hold down Control Shift again and click while it's still selected and drag to the right. I now have the six lines. I'm actually just going to make sure these are all centered by selecting them all. Control G to group, then going Align, Align Center. Now I'll click Shift Control G to ungroup. Now I can click again to de-select them all and just select the one I want. Then go to Color and choose eyedropper and make it the same color as the panel it's connecting to. Just quickly do this for each one. Now, I'll just shorten these lines so they don't run over the icon or the center. And to do that, you can just click on the end point, hold down Shift, and drag it back. Now, all that's left to do in this variation is text for each section. And to save time, I'm going to paste in some text I created earlier. And there we have a nice-looking and impactful infographic created from a pie chart 3. Adapting the infographic to other data: And because this infographic is still based on a live pie chart inside PowerPoint, it's easy to adapt for different examples. So for example, if we only wanted five sections, I could click on the chart. Right-click Edit Data, then delete one of the sections. So now there's only five sections. I'm going to delete the sixth icon, the other icons into the right place. Then delete the lines. Delete this section six texts. Huge shift select to select all these bits of text and center the text. Then individually drag them into place. If we want to make this wider while keeping it into the center, I can hold down shift and click the right arrow. I'm also aligning each one of these center. And we'll delete the star. And if these icons are all in PowerPoint, it's easy to right-click, Change graphic from icons. Then choose a suitable icon. This looks good, but I'm also going to show you a way where we can add arrows that this time point into the center. So for this, we go to Insert Shape. Don't want to choose one in block arrows here called arrow pentagon. We can click anywhere to add it to the screen. And then size it down. Hold down shift and we can rotate it. Now I'm going to drag it into position and size it down a bit. I'm also going to use the eyedropper tool to get the color from this panel and make sure it's got no outline. Then we can make sure it's aligned to the center of the page. To get the others in the correct place. We can use some maths. If we click on this and press Control D, I can now right-click Format Shape and go and look at the rotation. Because I want five of these arrows that different rotations but all equal. I'm going to be rotating them by 72 degrees, which is basically just 360/5. So it's already at a 270 degree rotation. And I'm just going to type in 342 because each time I want it to be rotating my 72 degrees. So 342. Now I can drag that into position. And also good shape fill and make its color the green. Looking good. I'll just quickly do that for the others. Looking good. I'll just quickly do that for the others. So we'll click on this Control D to duplicate. Then we can go to the rotation and add 72 to this, which will be 414. And then go to the eyedropper and pipette the color. And I'll just quickly do the final two. We can make some final quick adjustments with the Kursk case. If we want to make these all smaller, I can always shift select to select all of them. Then to make the thinner, I can hold down Shift and press the down arrow. Great. So there's a really good way of making a variation on the chart we had earlier with the same styling. But in this example of five sections and with the arrows pointing inwards 4. Presenting data in four panels: For one final example, I'm going to show you how you can use a variation of this to present data in four sections. So we can right-click, choose Edit Data, delete one of these values. Now click to remove section five, the icon and these arrows. This version, I'm also going to remove this text. And to make this a little smaller, we can select the chart, hold down Shift and press the down arrow until it's the size I want. Now, I'm going to add an arrow for each section to point out. For this, I'm going to use a triangle. So we can go to Insert Shape and choose a basic shape of a triangle. I want this to be a little smaller so I can click on the corner, hold down control and shift, and that will keep the ratio the same. For this one. I'll use the eyedropper tool to make it the same color and make sure it's got no outline. And then I can hold down Shift while clicking this rotational arrow at the top. Rotate it to the position I want. And then we can fine tune the rotation by clicking on the circular arrow at the top and dragging up or down until you get one that you think looks good. And to create the copy on the other side, I can hold down control and shift and drag, then rotate to what I think looks good. And make sure that I select the color or this arrow. I can do the same to copy down to this one. And the same to copy down this one. Then for the icons, I'm going to put them in circles. So we can click oval, click anywhere. Size it up to what we want. I'm going to choose 3.8 and make it the green color with the eyedropper tool. And to no outline. And then drag it into position and drag the icon onto it and bring it to the front by right-clicking and choosing Bring to Front. Then aligning it to the center. We're going to arrange align, align center, arrange align, align, middle. We can also make this a bit bigger by holding Control and Shift and dragging from the corner. I'm going to left align the text. Bring it up to here, change the wrapping, and also put a square panel behind it. And to do that, we'll go to rectangle, drag it out from the corner, right to click, Send to Back. Then make sure that we use the eyedropper tool to pick this green color. Make sure it's got no outline. And for the fill, I'm going to use 90% transparency. That gives a nice soft but to colorful and relevant to the section panel. Now I can quickly make the other circles. I can click on the circle, hold down Control and Shift and drag this down. Make it the right color. Drag the icon, right-click and choose bring to front. Then make it a bit bigger. And also the same for the panel control Shift. Drag it down to where we want it. We can use the cursor keys for some fine adjustments. Then make it the fill of the color 90 per cent. And right-click send to back. We'll just drag the text on left, align it as before. And I wouldn't normally click on both of these. Then go to arrange, Align and align left to make sure it's in the same left position. Then I can adjust the textbox to change the wrapping of this text. That's looking good so far. I just quickly create the look for the other side. Again. Click on the circle Control Shift to drag it into the position you want. Pick the shape fill from this color. Make sure that we right-click on the icon and choose bring to front and then drag it onto the circle. And clicking on the corner and holding down Control Shift will resize it from the center. This text, I'm going to align it to the position of the other text. But for this on the right side, I'm going to align it to the right. Then I'll do the same for the text below. The same for the circle, which I want to make sure it's aligned with this one. Then bring to front on the icon. Size it up from the corner. By holding down Control and Shift would just make this the right color with the eyedropper tool. Finally, I can make a copy of both panels by clicking on one, select it, shift, clicking the second, and then holding Control and Shift and dragging all the way to the end. Now right-click, send to back. Then select the colors. The blue for this 190 per cent. The lighter blue for this one. Again, 90% transparency. There we have the third example of this circular infographic. Three impactful ways of showing information with a circular graphic, all based on pie charts and easy to adapt 5. Moving away from a full circle: Let's now go back to what we had here so we can show you some other useful variations that move away from the full circle. Firstly, we'll remove the text out of the way. Then I'll remove the staff in the middle. And also the outer circle and the icons. Now I'm going to add two extra sections. So I'll click on this right-click. Choose Edit Data. Just basically add 1.1, so it's equal. For the bottom two sections, I'm going to give them no fill. So once this is selected, you can click again just to individually select the bottom section. Then choose no fill. The same for this. Now I'm going to Control G to group these two and then drag this down into this area and select the text and then hold down control and shift and the side handle to drag it out to re-size from the center. And for this example, I'm going to use some warmer colors. And I'm going to quickly paste these in. And for any of these colors, you can select the entire graph and then click again to select the individual section. And choose eyedropper to take the color from anywhere you like, or select it from your standard or theme colors. With this layout, we have a lot of room for an eye-catching graphic and extensive text about the main concept or goal. So here I will use something from PowerPoints illustrations library. So we'll go to Insert. You can click on icons. Then the option to add illustrations will be available. I'm going to choose this and click Insert and then hold down Control and Shift to size it down and put it in the middle. These illustrations each have a highlight color based on the theme. And we can change that by going to shape, fill, and picking whichever color we want. I'm just going to use this dark blue. And as I've now got an illustration the middle, I'm going to remove this icon because I don't feel we need it in this design. I'm going to make this entire thing a little bit bigger by going to the outside and holding down Control Shift. And now we can add back on our text and make this a little bit smaller. And change it to white and adjusted fit. And then bring back our icon. And I'm going to remove the drop shadow on this one. So I'll go to Shape Effects shadow and choose none. And make this a little bit smaller. I'll quickly just do this to all the other sections. There's our reworked infographic, which is looking good. So far. Now just change a few settings to show you some different visual options. So we can click on the chart, right-click and choose Format Data Series. I'm firstly, I'm going to choose three per cent for the donut explosion, which is just basically the space between the different sections. Then I'll go to the fill option. And under border, I'm going to select five points and 50 per cent transparency. Then finally, I'll select shadow under the Effect Options. I can go to one of the presets. The first one I'll just select outer. I'm going to make this 80% transparent. With a 10-point blur. The shadow and the outline give it a nice effect. But at the bottom here, we're going to need to turn that off so we can click on the Chart. Click again just to select the individual section. Then go to Shape, Fill, No Fill, Shape, Outline, no outline and shape effects. Shadow, no shadow. And the same again for this one. And so by adding an outline and some subtle drop shadow, we've added some depth to this graphic. And I think it looks really good. 6. Arch shaped example using a photo: One final variation. We're going to make something like this. And we'll do this from the basis of the same pie chart we had. If we right-click and choose edit data, I'm going to add 12 parts in total, so another four. I'm now going to make sure the chart selected and go shape effects shadow and turn off the shadow. And also shape, outline and turn off the outline. Now I'm going to select the bottom half and give it no fill. So I can click on everything to make sure everything is selected. And then click a second time just to make sure the piece I want is selected. And I can select no fill. I'll click each one of these and select no fill. Now we can size it up, so I'll hold down Control and use the mouse wheel to zoom out. Select the whole chart, hold down, shift and size it up, and now drag it into position. If I want this to be a bit bigger, I can click on the corner point and hold down control and shift and drag it and that will resize from the center. I can align this to the center by going to arrange align center, and then use the cursor keys to click down a couple of times. So it's now in exactly the right place. I want it on the slide. I can zoom back in a bit. I'm quickly going to select the colors I was using. So I click to select them all. Click again just to select the one area that I want to color. Then go to Fill eyedropper and select from my colors. I'll just quickly do that to the others. In this variation, I'm not going to use the icons, so I'll just quickly delete these by clicking on them and pressing Delete. Now, I'm just going to drag the text into position and center it. I also want to increase the size of the white circle in the middle. And to do that, we can click on the whole chart and then change the doughnut hole size. In this example, I might choose 60%. That's looking good. Can bring these up a little bit and align these with each other. I'm now going to add a small inner shadow so we can click on this, then go to the Effects options. Under Presets, this time, choose inner. And for this, I'm going to select blare at ten angle at zero distance at naught. And that gives it quite a nice subtle effect. Now going to show you how you can add a picture in the circle below. And for this, I'm just going to use a stock photo that I got from insert pictures, stock images. I'm not going to use this image. And to get it to a circle, we can go to Crop, crop to shape and choose oval. And then crop aspect ratio one-to-one. Now we can drag in the area we want to have visible. If I hold down Shift and drag the corner, I can resize it and then drag it into position and hold down control and shift to size it up. Now, drag it into position and center it on the page and right-click and choose center back. This text here. I'm just going to change to say something like this and make it a bit bigger. What's good about this infographic is that it's easy to adapt if, for example, you wanted to slightly less sections. For example, if I wanted to have five sections, I could just right-click on this, choose Edit Data. Just removed to close that down. So I can click on the chart. Then in the Series Options, I can adjust the angle of the first slice. I know that I want this to be 342. You can just use the up and down arrows to adjust it until it looks just right for you. And I will quickly color in the panels by clicking on all of them and then just clicking on the one I want to change. I can delete my section six and move the other texts where I want it to go. So you can see how we can quickly make adjustments because the chart is still alive, PowerPoint charts. And therefore, it's easy to be able to add and remove sections as necessary 7. Angular gauge chart: By starting with a doughnut chart, you can make something like this, which is often called an angular gage charts. It can be used to depict a range of values going from bad to good, cold to hot, slow to fast, or low to high. Now we can add the basic doughnut chart by going to Insert chart, selecting Pie, and using this option on the far-right doughnut. For my example, I'm going to have six sections visible, which is the top half. And to do that, we can just create the same value in 12 cells. If I select 12 cells starting with this one value, I can then press Control D and that will duplicate and fill them all in. I can take off the title and the legend by clicking on them and pressing Delete. I'm now going to make the bottom half have no fill. So I can click once and click a second time on the individual color, shape fill and choose no fill. I will hold down shift and click on this and move it down. Then to scale it up from the center, I can click on the corner point, hold down control and shift and drag it out. Now we can change the colors. And in this example where we use a common color scheme for this type of chart, which is from green on the left to read on the right. And a good way of creating these colors is to create a rectangle of the page. These are the three colors that I'm going to use, the base colors. And then I can create a gradient for these are going to gradient fill. In setting R0 stops, green, yellow, and red. Then I can click on the chart on the individual section and then pick colors from this gradient using the eyedropper tool. Now I'm going to create the needle. For that. I'm going to use a circle. So I'll click on the oval, look anywhere to create a circle. Set it to 20 point width on the outline, and make it black and set it to no fill. Then we can click on triangle. Align these to the middle, and then set this to no line and black fill. We can now add some details to enhance this. In the shape selection, I can click on OK, click anywhere. Drag out this yellow dots to make it an entire arc. Then hold down Shift and size it from the corner. I'm going to make this ten point and black and size it so it fits. On. Now, duplicate this by pressing Control D, making it 100 points and the outliner soft gray. Then sizing it down, putting it inside. Align it to the middle. Move it up a little bit, and then right-click and choose Send to Back. A typical use for this gauge chart is for something like a risk assessment. So I will paste in some text. In my example, I had a bigger line in-between each of the sections. And to do that, we can click on the whole chart, go to fill and align options. And under the border section, I can select a width of ten point and the transparency of 50%. And then just make some small adjustments to this arc on the outside. So the spacing between the gray and the pie chart pieces and the black is about the same. That looks good. And finally, I'll show you how you can animate this needle to go to wherever you want on this chart. If we select this point on the needle and this circle and press Control G, and then rotate that. You will see that it just rotates from its center point, which is about here. But we want to rotate it from this section here. And to do that, and we can draw a circle from the center point of here by holding down Control and Shift. Stopping about there. We now want to bring the needle and the text at the top. So we can right-click on this blue circle and hit Send to Back. We now click on the Chart and send that to back. Then finally, I can click on arc and send that to back. We can click on the needle Control Shift G to ungroup. Then we want to make sure this circle is aligned perfectly with this cycle. Arrange, align, center, and arrange line. That will make it rotate perfectly. So now we can click on the triangle, the circle, this circle, and press Control G. And that is our rotating needle. Now what we need to do is make sure this is selected. Then click again, select the blue circle and give it no outline and no fill. So now if we rotate, this looks good. We can add the animation to start with. I'm going to rotate it to zero. So we can click on this little Rotation icon at the top and hold down shift until we get it exactly where we want to. Then go to animations and choose spin. By default, it will spin all the way round 360 degrees. If we click on the animation pane, right-click on the item we have and go to effect options. We can choose a customer Mt. In my example, I set it to 135 and gave it a smooth end. Now when we click, the needle will go all the way up to the position we rotated it to. Once you've made a chart like this, it's really easy to duplicate it across slides and change the animation to get the needle to go to any position 8. 3D block layer design: Let's use PowerPoints 3D functions to create this adaptable block layer infographic. So we'll start by adding a square. I'll click on rectangle and click anywhere. And right-click and choose Format Shape. I'm going to make this 6.7 by 6.7. Then make sure it has no outline. I've chosen the colors that I'm going to use and put them on the left here. So I'm going to click on this and choose a fill color from one of these. Now we can go on to Format Shape to the effects option and choose 3D rotation. And then from the presets option, I'm going to select isometric top up. Now we can go into 3D format. And then for the depth, I'm going to select 20 point. Then under lighting, I'm going to choose the second option under neutral, which is called balance. Then I'll go into the shadow section from the presets, select Offset Bottom. Make a couple of changes to this. I'm going to put the angle at 135, which is straight down, and then select the distance to 30. We'll also up the transparency just a little bit to 85. That looks good. I'm now going to align it to the center. Hold down Shift and drag it down to where I want the bottom one to be. Then click Control D to duplicate. Drag this up. So it's perfectly in line as the smart guides appear. Then pressing Control D again and another three times will give me all of the shapes I want with exactly the right spacing. I can select the colors from my color selections on the left. Now I can add in the first text box. For this, I'm going to use a rounded corner rectangle. Just drag it anywhere for now, and paste in my text. I'm using control and left square bracket to size it down a bit. I'll drag this little yellow dot to make it slightly less round. Then fill it in white. Let's set it to 90% transparent. And for the outline, I'll select this first color in the first section that it's going to link to. And I'm also going to make this four-point wide. Now I can go to the line tool and draw on my box holding down shift to the center graphic. And also set this to four point. For this, I'm going to use a gradient line. I can drag away these stops that I don't need. I can set the left stop, this yellow color. And the right. I'm just going to choose from this background and then set the correct direction. I'm also going to size this down a bit, make the texts a little bit smaller. Then align it to the middle. I can now control G to group these and drag it up a tiny bit. So it's in exactly the right place using the cursor keys. If I click on this and hold down Control and Shift, I can drag this down to make a separate copy. This will be my section three. I'll pick the correct text color from here. And the correct outline color. And the correct color for the part of this line. I'll click on this and press Control D again to make the one over this side. Hold down Shift and drag this line to the correct place. That this line will want the gradient to be the other way round. So I can just drag these. Now, move it down into its correct position. Then change the outline to this same with the text. And the same with this side of the line. And then change my text to whatever I want it to say. That looks good. I'll just quickly, we create the others. Once this is complete You can easily make small changes using the inbuilt tools in PowerPoint to make your own original variations. For example, we could select all of these and then go to Shape Format, edit shape, change shape, and choose this option here, the rounded corners rectangle. And for another example, I can change these into circles so I can select them all, go to Edit Shape, change shape, and choose an oval. I can also then go into Effects and make any changes I want to the 3D effect. And for this, I'm going to give it slightly more depth, 30 point and change the material from warm mat to metal. And the lighting. From balance, too harsh. You can change these to whatever you think looks good. But the key is to keep it so it's not too distracting and that it remains clear. Now going to resize these circles, for the very first one, I'm going to make it a three-by-three, then by four and so on. Going up 1 cm for each one. Then eight by eight for the last. I can now select all of these. Go to arrange, align and center them, and then Control G to group, and then send to the whole thing. Now, if I Control Shift G to ungroup, I can now click on each one of these and hold down Shift to position them vertically. Now going to make some changes to these. So I'm going to select them all. Make sure that ungrouped and make sure that all these boxes are selected. And then set it to no fill, no line. These lines, I'm going to click on all three of them. Then go to end arrow type and choose oval. Now, I can click on the end of the line and hold down Shift to drag it and keep it straight. 6.5 too wide. I'm going to set all of these nodes 6.52 wide and we can align them in a minute. These are aligned already and I'll just position them, or I want to this one down a bit, this one up a bit. Then our position, the text. This gap is slightly bigger here, so I'll just close that down a bit. Now I'm going to move this section one text up. So it's in the same part of the circle as the ones below. This side. I'm going to Shift select, to select all of them, and then go to begin arrow type and choose oval for that because this line is the other way round. Hold down Shift and drag these into position. Then click on each one and drag it up or down to the correct place. Then hold down Shift and drag this out. Then finally, I'm just going to select all of these here and move them in a small bit so it's equal with the other side. Now we have a really nice variation. And you can use the PowerPoint tools to change shapes and apply different effects to make it into something unique 9. 3D isometric steps: In this lesson, we'll use basic shapes and the 3D functionality of PowerPoint to create these isometric infographics. So we'll start on this page with just a background and the colors. I'm going to use a below. Firstly, we will need a rectangle which will click anywhere to the page. This will automatically add a square. Then I'm going to go to the Format Shape option and make this 3 cm by 3 cm. I'm going to pick the first color in my color selection at the bottom, and then go to outline and make sure that it has no outline. Now, we can go to the Format, Shape Options and choose effects. From there, we can go to 3D rotation. We can go to the presets. And we're going to select isometric top up, then 3D format, and type in the required depth. I'm going to choose 40 point for this. Now we've got our first shape. I can Control D to duplicate and then duplicate the others. And then select the fill colors using the eyedropper from my color selections below. Now we can increase the depth. So we'll click on this one, go to Format Shape x. And under 3D format, we want to make this AT effectively, I'm just adding 40 points each time. 2060, 200. And finally to 40. Going to add a light shadow to all of them. So I'll select them all. Back to effects. This time. We'll select the shadow drop-down. Choose a preset such as the first one, offset bottom right. Then I'm just going to set the blur to 20 point and the angle to 90 degrees. Now we're going to align them. To do that, we'll put the first one where we want it to start. Right-click on the second choose Send to Back. Then we can use the cursor keys to align them exactly. Again, Send to Back, and then align it. Then we can use the cursor keys as we need to precisely align it. So there's the 3D isometric steps. Now we can add the text. So I'm just going to add these numbers. I'm going to make these 40 point and white. Then if we go to Text Options, text effects, we can go to 3D rotation just for these and choose Isometric right up. That will give it to the correct rotation. These isometric shapes. Then click Control D to duplicate and drag this into position. Control D again. Justing with the cursor's if necessary, control D, control D or Control D. Now we can type in the numbers. We can make any adjustments we need to these, I'm going to move them a few pixels to the left. Now we can add our icons from the library. And to do that, we go to Insert icons. Type what we want. I'm going to fill this with white, drag it into position. Then go to Shadow. Go to the presets for the shadow. And from the perspective section at the bottom, choose top-right. Now I can press Control D to duplicate this, put it into its position. Control D, Control D, Control D and Control D again. Then I can right-click on any of these to change graphic from icon. Type in the text. For the new icon, select the one we want. And it's formatting or stay the same, and the shadow will stay the same. But just quickly do that for these ones. Change graphic from icons. So finally, we can add some text for the description and for the title. So I'll just paste in the text I'm going to use. Then if we want, we can adjust this so it's rotated in the same way. I can go to 3D rotation for the text. Go to presets, and then choose Isometric Top up, and then drag this into the position we want. Then we can add a description text. For each step. We can either have them like this next to the blocks or we can rotate these in the same way where we go to Text Options and choose isometric top up 10. Elegant staircase diagram: In this variation, will use the same basic PowerPoint shapes and 3D options to make these 3D isometric steps. Several start with this basic blue background. And I have the colors I'm going to use in circles below. The bottom step is just a rectangle. So we'll go to rectangle and then click anywhere. And I'm going to make this 1 cm high by 4 cm wide. I'm also going to go to the line options and make sure that it has no line. Now, we can select it and click Control D. Now, we can add the 3D effects to this shape. So we'll go to Format Shape. Sure, we've selected the effect section and then go to 3D rotation. From there, we can select the preset isometric right up. Then go to 3D format and add the depth, which will be 120 point. From the materials section, I've selected mat and from lighting, I've selected the second option, which is balance. This will be our first step. Then to make the second and the subsequent steps, we're going to begin with this shape here. I'll click Control D when it's selected. To make the second part. For this, I want it to be too high and one wide. And then shift click to select both of them. Then go to the align options and choose Align Left and align top with them both still selected. We can now go to Shape, Format, merge shapes and choose union. And then we can actually copy and paste the same 3D settings across. And to do this, we click on the source that we want to take the settings from press Control Shift C, and then go to the destination that we want to copy the settings to press Control Shift V. Now I can move this into position, and I can use the cursor keys for some final adjustments. I can now add the text with the number that's on each step. For this, I used fig tree extra bold, 40 point white. And also from text options, I went to 3D rotation and chose isometric top up or press Control D to duplicate that. For the second step. Again, we can use the cursor keys to adjust it as we think it's necessary. Now I want to duplicate the second step because that's the same format that's going to be used for all the other steps. So I can click on it, shift click to select the step and the text and then Control D. If the others, we can just click Control D, Control D and Control D again. Now we can type in the other text. Drag over all of these to select them and move them down into position. If we want to make these a little bit smaller to fit on the page, we should group them first with Control G and then go to the corner handle, hold down Control and Shift and drag. That looks good. I'm just going to align it to the center of the page. Now we can add the different colors. So I'm first going to ungroup, which you can do with Control Shift G or right-click and choose Group, then ungroup. And I'm going to click on each step, go to Shape Fill, and then use the eyedropper tool to take the colors from my selections below. There's all the colors I want to use. That's looking good. Now we can just add the text. So I'm going to paste in this text that I'm going to use and then add a circle. Hello, I want this circle to be quite small. So I'm going to choose nought 0.6, 0.6. I'm going to fill it in the same color as the step. Then go to the outline, will make sure the color is the same as the step by going to eyedropper and taking the color again. Then we can set the transparency to 50 and the width to ten point. And finally, we can just create a dashed line from the edge of the circle to the step. I'll select 1.5 point for the width and select the gray from here. Then drag it into the position that I want. I'm going to quickly paste in the others to save time. But effectively all I did was change the text color for the step text and for this circle to be the same as the step 11. Circular 3D steps: In this lesson, I'll show you how you can create a 3D circular steps infographic. And we'll be starting with just a basic pie chart. We'll go into this blank slide. Go to Insert Chart, then select pie and choose the option, which is donut. I want there to be eight parts of this circle. So I'll type one into these four parts and then add one another four times to make eight parts. I can then close this down. Right-click on the chart and go to Format Chart Area. Make sure I've clicked on the actual pi. Then go to the bar options here and choose 40 per cent for the donut hole size. I can then delete the title by clicking on it and the key at the bottom. I also want to click on the pie and make sure that it's got no outline. So I'll go to Shape, outline and choose an outline. Now I have the pie charts. I can click on it, Control X to cut and then go to Paste and choose Paste Special. And I want to select SVG. So this will convert it from a chart into some standard vector graphic shapes. These can now be ungrouped by right-clicking and choosing Convert shape. Then right-clicking again and choosing Group, Ungroup. Now I can go to the 3D options. Choose Isometric Top up, and a depth of 40 for now, just so we can see what's happening. There's our 3D shapes. Now I can position these to create a ring shape. You can use the cursor keys to finally adjust these. I'll right-click and choose center back, and I want them to be behind the shape the next day. Now I have the eight segments in the correct position. I'm just going to delete these two here because these are gonna be used for the title. And in this lesson, I'm only creating a six-step infographic. Now I can select all of these control G to group and align them to the center. I'm going to paste some texts into the section here for my title. Made with fig tree, extra bold at 48 point. I'm now going to change just two of these colors. This one to this purple color, this one to a blue. I'm happy with those. So I'm going to change the depth. To do that, we can click on the one we want to add the depth to Format Shape and then go to the depth. These, I'm going to add 25 point to each of them. So the first one, I'm going to select that 25 points, then 5075100125, and finally 150. And now I'm going to align each one of these. I'm going to have my base alignment here. Now I should just put a hold down shift and click underlying the others. Again, we can use the cursor keys for some fine adjustments up or down. Now happy with the positions with these, but I'm also going to change the lighting. I can click on all of these. Go to Format Shape. Then under 3D format, I can change the lighting in for this one, I'm going to use two point. This will then make the lighting on the side consistent. From here, we could add icons onto each of these steps, are going to insert icons and then typing the icons we want. I'm going to make these white and add a shadow, like going to effects shadow. And then I'm going to select this option under perspective top right. That looks good. Now I can quickly Control D to duplicate. Put this wherever I want it to go. Then right-click and choose Change graphic from icons. This will keep the same formatting and the shadow applied. I'll just quickly add the others in position these wherever I want them. It can either be raised up here and up here, for example, or just in the middle. Finally, I'll select everything, hold down Shift to move it down a bit, and then paste in some text to describe each section. As an alternative. We can change these icons for numbers and apply the 3D format onto each of the steps. To do that, I can click on oval, click anywhere. I'll make this 3 cm by 3 cm. Then type in the text, set it to the font. I want to use this fig tree extra bold. Change it to 48 point. Set my filter no fill and then add three-point line in white. From here, I can then go to effects. And under 3D rotation can choose isometric top up. Now this can be duplicated with Control D. And then you can just move it onto the section you want and type in the number you want. Once you have these shapes in a 3D format, we can click on them, Shift-click to select the others. Then we can go to the Effects section. And under 3D format, you can choose any material or lighting that you think looks good. For example, I can go to special effects in the material section and choose dark edge. And then under lighting, I can choose something warm like Sunrise. And because all of these shapes are separate, we can actually move them if we want to change the look and the effect. So I could actually drag these down, drag this one across a bit, and effectively space them out slightly. So here's a version with some spaced apart of shapes to show how you can add variation. Once you've already created the 3D shapes from the pie chart. 12. Four simple panels: Not all infographics need to be complex layouts. We can use the same techniques with simple layouts to quickly add impact and clarity. Here we have a simple table outlining business priorities and there are no relevant photos or graphics. But by adding some basic shapes, styles, and icons, we can turn it into something like this. So we'll start with a plain background. The first thing we'll add is the panels. So go to Insert Shapes. We want to make sure we choose this option here, which is rectangle, top corners rounded. I can click anywhere. Right-click Format Shape. And let's adjust the size. I'm going to make this 13 point too high. By 6.4 wide. I'm going to choose white as the Shape Fill and selection outline. Then I'm going to go to shadow. Under the effect section. I'm just going to click the first option here, offset bottom right, and adjust the transparency to make it a bit more subtle that 80 per cent and a ten point Blur. I'm just pressing Tab to move through these various options. Because we selected a top corners rounded rectangle, I can pick up either of these yellow dots, the one at the top or the one at the bottom, and adjust it to change the rounded corners to make the top different from the bottom. So for the top, I'm going to pick up the yellow dot, drag it all the way to the right so there's no rounded corners. And for the bottom, I'm going to put a small amount of rounded corners. You can drag the yellow dots to the right to make it fully rounded and drag it to the left to make it fully square. And we're going to stop it about there. Now I'm going to drag this into position, press Control D to duplicate. Put it exactly where I want it to be with the right gap. Then press Control D two more times. From here, I can select all of these by dragging over the top. Control G to group. Then go to arrange, Align and align center to put them in the center of the page. Shift Control G to ungroup. Now we can add the triangles for the numbers. So we can go to the drawing section and choose triangle. Click anywhere. If we hold down Shift while over the circle at the top and hold down the mouse button and rotate it to the right, and it will rotate in 15 degree increments. We can stop it there, then drag it into position, resize it as we wish. This, I'm going to use this color for the Shape, Fill this blue and for Shape, Outline. Now, outline. Then I can go to the Effects to shadow. I'm going to the intersection and choose inside center. I'm going to make the blur 10-point and the transparency 50 to make it a bit more subtle, I can use Tab to advance through these and Shift Tab to reverse through them. Now we can add the text. We'll click on Text Box, click anywhere. Type one. I'm going to make this fig tree extra bold, make it 32 point and white. That looks good. So now duplicate it for the others. So I can click and hold anywhere, drag it over the top. Press Control D, hold and drag it into exactly the right position. But the smart guides show that it's perfectly aligned. And press Control D again and again. Can I change the numbers? And then the colors? Now going to quickly paste in my text to save time. But here I've basically used victory extra bold 24 point for the title and fig tree 12 point for the description text. The title, I've chosen the same color as the triangle above. I'm also going to paste in a title and then move everything down a bit. So I'll swipe over the whole lot. Hold down, shift, click with my mouse and drag down. That will keep the exposition locked. Let's now add in some small icons from the icon library. We can go to Insert Icons. I'm going to type in coke and select this one. Type ideas for the next one. That timer. All of these will be ticked. And as you can see here, it's changing the number of how many are going to insert. So once we finished, it will add them all in. Finally graph. Now when we click Insert, they'll all be added in. I can just drag them into position from here. I'm going to make this all a little smaller so I can select them all, hold down control and shift and resize them. And I'm going to move these up very slightly. Then align all the icons and I'm holding down shift to multiple, select them. Then going to arrange, Align and align middle. You can use the cursors for fine adjustment. I'm just going to align these to the left. That looks good. I'm just going to move the triangle, the number one, very slightly to the left, using the cursor keys to make sure it's perfectly aligned. Excellent. And now a quick way of applying the same colors from the triangles to the icons. While this is selected, I can go to Format Painter and then click on the icon that I want to apply the formatting two. And that will take the color and the shadow style. Just to quickly apply it to the others. Click Format Painter, and then click on the target rate. And there's a nice way of going from a very basic table, such as this. All the way to a nicely designed and memorable graphic using basic PowerPoint shapes, icons, and shadow effects 13. 3D perspective ribbons: A few simple shapes combined with some shading can create this 3D look that can add real impacts to these boxes of text. So for this lesson, we'll start with this purple background and then add five boxes. If we click on rectangle and click anywhere, we can then right-click and go to size and position. And I want these to be 3 cm high by 5.5 wide. I'm going to choose to give these now outline. And for now, I'm just going to make them white while I set them up. So I'll drag that to there and press Control D and drag it so it's aligned and then Control D another few times to make the remaining boxes. Now I can shift select to select all five of them, control G to group, and then go to align and make sure they're aligned to the middle and drag them down a bit. I'm going to hold down Control and Shift while I drag them to drag them straight up and make a duplicate of them. And then hold down Control and Shift again. While I select this middle circle. That will allow me to resize them down while they stay centered. Now we can go to Shape, Format, edit, shape, change shape. And today's I'm going to choose top corners rounded, which is this one here. And then click on the center point to make them a bit taller. Now I can ungroup these either by pressing Control Shift G or right-clicking and choosing Group Ungroup. But each of these, I want to make them fully rounded at the end. So I can click on this little yellow dot and pulled the dot over to the left. Now we can add the shapes that join them up. So we can go to Insert Shapes. With these. I'm going to choose this basic shape trapezium. I can click anywhere. I'm going to turn off the outline, shape, outline none. Then drag it up into position and scale it so it snaps to there to there, and then adjust the yellow dots to bring it in. I can now hold down Control and Shift, click on this and drag it across to make it smaller version. And we can right-click, choose Edit Points, and then drag the black corner points so they're in the correct position. Taller and shift again to drag this over to the final one. And again, right-click Edit Points. Hold down the black corner dots and drag so they're in the correct position. The two on the left, we can use the same two that are on the right. We can make a copy of them. So again, hold down Control and Shift, click on the item and drag it, and it will lock to its y position. Now we can go to arrange in the drawing section, rotate and choose flip horizontal, and drag it into position. We can do the same for this one. We can make fine adjustments by using the cursor keys. Now I can select all these while holding down Shift and clicking on them, and then choose center back. And make any small adjustments I want with the cursor keys. Firstly, select the colors. I want these five. Then I'm going to use gradients to fill these. So I can go to Format, Shape, choose gradient fill. Drag off the stops that I don't want. Click the color on the left to select the first color in the gradient. Then click the color on the right. And I'm going to choose a darker variation of that down here, darker at 25%. And now I'm quickly going to make these others using the same method. So that's gradient fill. The one on the left is lighter, and the one on the bottom is the darker variation. That's looking good. We can now apply the color gradient to these panels at the bottom, I doing Control shift C on the Source, clicking on the white panels, making sure they're ungrouped. And then pressing Control Shift V. The only thing I want to do here, It's turnaround the gradient to make it to 70. Then we can quickly do that with the others. So Control shift C on the source colour, Control Shift V on the target color, and then 270 degrees to turn the gradient around Now we can add the numbers to the back panels. For these, I used a circle. So we'll go to oval in the drawing menu and click anywhere. Then we can right-click on this and change the size and position. I'm going to go for two by one by two by one. And then go to the Shape Fill and make it white and shape outline, outline. I'll type the number one. For the color of this. I'm going to choose the same color as the middle panel. I'm going to make this 28 point and fig tree extra bold. Then one final effect. I'm going to go to the Effects section. Shadow. Choose the first inner preset inside top-left. And then just adjust the transparency to make it slightly more subtle. I like 80 per cent. Now I can click Control D to duplicate these and drag it to the same position. Then Control D, control D or Control D to make the three other duplicates or type in the new numbers, then set the colors. Now I'm going to add a small triangle to the bottom of each of these. Rotate it around this way. Then make sure it's aligned to the center. Now Control D to duplicate this for the other four. Then if we select this box first and then the triangle, I can go to Shape, Format, Merge Shapes and union. This will take the color from the first thing I've selected. Make sure you select this panel first, then the triangle shapes union. I can now add some icons in this front panels. Insert Icons. These, I'm just going to make them white and add some shadow. The shadow just going to change the transparency to 80 per cent. Now we can click Control D. Move these to the position you want them in. Control D again. And we can right-click on these, change graphic from icons to select the other icons. Now I'm quickly going to paste in some text with the descriptions for each of the sections and the title. And this title was made in victory extra bold, that 36 point. These subtitles here, well-made fig tree extra bold at 24 point with the body text at 10.5 point. So there's a powerful way of using basic shapes in PowerPoint along with gradients to make impactful infographics 14. A linear chronological timeline : You can use PowerPoint shapes and icons to create these impactful timeline infographics. And to start with, we'll just have a very light gray background to create our graphics on. And we'll add a line across the middle. So we'll go to Insert Shapes and choose line. This I'll just click anywhere. Drag it up to straight. Go to Format Shape. This. We're going to make ten point. I'm also going to make it a dark green and align it to the middle. Now I can drag this end to one side and this end to the other side. Now we'll add our third circle. So we'll go to oval, click anywhere. Then set the size. This, I'm going to use 3.7 by 3.7. This one, I want to have no fill and the green as the outline. I don't want the outline to be a two point. Now, if we press Control D to duplicate this, I'm going to make this one white. Set the outline to 20 point. On the white circle. I'm going to add an effect of a shadow. So I'll right-click, go to Format Shape, Effects. Shadow. Go to the presets and choose the one in the middle of outer called offset center. We're going to have one final circle in the middle of this, which aren't going to make light green. No outline. And set the size to 3.5. I want the light green to be at the back so I can right-click and choose Send to Back. And this green rings bit at the front. So I can right-click and choose bring to front. Then I can select them all by holding down Shift. Go to arrange and align them to the center. I can also align them to the middle. Arrange align middle. There's our circle. I'll select them all. Control G to group and then align it to the center of the page. Now we're going to add a line from the green circle to the dark green line. So I'll click on line in the drawing section rollover until we're on the dot. Then click and drag it up to the dark green line. And I also want this to be five point. And now I'm going to select them all by drawing a marquee over them all. And control G to group. And if I hold down control and shift and then click on the item, I can make a copy of it. I'm going to drag up there, another one there. And there. Now we're going to align these. So I'll select them all. Go to arrange, align and make sure that distribute horizontally is clicked. That will change the spacing between them to make it equal. And then Control G. Arrange, align center to align it to the center of the page. And now Control Shift G to ungroup them again. The second one and the fourth one can be flipped vertically. So we can go to arrange, rotate, and choose flip vertical. Now we can drag these up by holding down Shift. Then we have the basis of our timeline. I'm going to add in an icon so I can go to Insert icon. And if I type pin, this icon will appear. And I can insert This whole in. This icon is transparent, so I'm just going to put a white circle behind it. So I can click anywhere. Change this circle to make it a bit smaller and make it filled with white and no outline. Then right-click and send to back. And I'm going to make the icon itself the light green color. Now, I can select both things and Control G to group. I can now drag this into position and hold down Control Shift again to drag it into his other positions. These ones can be flipped. So I can go to arrange, Rotate, Flip Vertical. Just drag this up a bit. And then I can use the cursor keys to finally a line. Now I can add some color variations from the colors I have in my palette. If you want to change the color of anything that's grouped, you will need to click once to select the group, and then a second time to select the individual item inside that group that you want to change the color of. Or you can ungroup these and change the color that way. So if we want to change the color of this green ring in the group, being click once, click a second time, select the green ring, then go to Shape, outline, and select our darker green. We can select our lighter version of that, but the circle in the center. And then for the pin, again, because it's grouped, we have to click once and then click again. Then finally the line. Click once, click again and select Shape outline. That looks good. I'll just quickly apply it to the others. We have all of our colors in. I'll just quickly paste in the numbers. These are made from fig tree extra bold at 24 point. Now I'll just quickly paste in the description text for each of the years. The subtitles here being at 20 point in victory, extra bold, and the description text being at 11 point, fig tree regular. Finally, we can add some icons inside of the circles. So I'll go to Insert Icons, resize them down by holding Control and Shift and clicking on the top corner and dragging and tin. Then changing it to the color that we chose for that circle. And I press Control D because this is the right size. Crank it up to this position, right-click and choose Change graphic from icons. Select this. Now we can change the color again to shape fill, and choosing the same green of the circle, that's N. Control D. Again, we'll drag down to here. Right-click graphic from icons. As quickly do the other two. Maybe go 15. Curved arrow timeline with photos: In this second variation of a timeline, who use circular arrows to make this powerful infographic. For our second example, we can add some photos. So we'll start with a very light gray background. And if we go to drawing and then select this block arrow, which is called arrow circular, you click anywhere. I'll size this up. You will see that because of the way this arrow is drawn in PowerPoint, it doesn't look very nice. It doesn't look mathematically correct. So I think there is a better way of drawing it. And we'll just leave this one off to the side here. A comparison. If we go to the Shapes menu. And from basic shapes, we select block arc. We can click anywhere, hold down, Shift and drag the corner to size it up. We can use this yellow handle on the right to make it thinner. I think that looks good. I'm now going to set it in our outline. And to add the arrow end, I'm going to use a triangle. So I'll click anywhere to rotate it round. We can either hold down Shift and drag on this circular arrow and drag it all the way round. And I'll Control Z to undo that. Well, we can go to rotate and choose flip vertical. Now I'm going to size it down by holding down Control and Shift and dragging the corner. That's about the size I want it. And if I click on the art first and then shift click on the triangle, I can now go to Shape, Format, merge shapes, and choose a union. I think this looks much better than the block arrow that PowerPoint created. So I can delete that, drag mine over, hold down Control and Shift while I click on it and drag it out. Then press Control Y or Control Y or Control Y. Now I'm going to select everything control G and drag the corner handling. So they're the right size. That's about right. I can now go to Arrange line and align everything to the center. Now, Control Shift G to ungroup because I just wanted to flip this and this. So I can go to arrange, Rotate, Flip Vertical. Now I hold down Shift and drag this down. Now if I Control a to select everything, control G to group, I can align it to the middle and Control Shift G to ungroup so I can work on them and color them. So I'm going to go through and select my colors and create my text. The subtitles. I'm going to be using fig tree extra bold at 24 points. I'm going to drag this out. So just wrap, align it to the center, then make it the same color as the arrow. I'm also going to Control Shift to drag it and duplicate it to this one. Same again for the blue one. And Control D to make a copy of it down here for this one. Control and Shift again the final one. Now I'm quickly going to paste in some more description text that could, for example, go here. And you can see that it can fit in a lot of text if it is needed. I'll just duplicate it and put it here. Then Control and Shift while I drag these to put it into these positions. And then Control and Shift on just this one. For the last part. We could also add a panel above each of these curves. For example, with a year or some iconography on them. For this, we'd go to Insert Shapes from rectangles two to the second one from the end, which is called top corners rounded. Then click and drag out here. I'm going to fill this with white and give it no outline. Then click on the yellow dot and drag it to the left to make it fully rounded at the top. Then right-click Format, Shape. Go to effects and presets. I'm going to choose this one here, which is offset top, and then take the transparency up to 80 per cent. Now I can right-click send to back and then just drag it into position. On this, I could do something like type a year, center it and put this into position. And above it, I could add any icon, drag it into position, control and shift in the corner to size it down. Then go to shape fill and choose the color of the arrow it's above. This looks good. I can now select all of these in this panel above by clicking and holding and dragging the marquee over them. And then holding down Control Shift and dragging to create a copy. The same again. We just need to send this to the back And send these to the back Control D to make a duplicate. And for this one, we're going to flip it. So go to Arrange, rotate and flip vertical. Again, we right-click and choose center back. We can select both of these and Control D to duplicate those. Then we could put them in whichever orientation we choose. I can now select all of these Control and Shift to drag to grow the final one. Then right-click and choose Send to Back. Now quickly update the years and change the icons and colors. Mostly the colors. Now the icons. So to do that, we just right-click, Change graphic from icons. On the bottom two. We can adjust the shadow so it appears in the same place. And to do that, we can click on this white panel, go to shadow, and then just change the direction. We could just choose a preset, selecting something like offset bottom, and then take the transparency backup to a T. And the same for this one. For our second example, we can add some photos. So I'm going to delete my text and the titles and the panels and icons. I'm going to leave the ears and the arrows. Now I can go to Insert Pictures, stock images, typing what I want. Double-click to load in the photo. Then go crop aspect ratio, One-to-one, crop growth shape, and choose oval that will crop it in a perfect circle. Now I can just hold down Shift and size it down to the size I want. Then put it into position. That looks good. We can hold down Control and Shift to drag it to this position. And then Control D to duplicate it into this position. Control and Shift to drag it. And Control Y, which will basically redo the exact drag that we've just done. Now I can change any of these pictures by right-clicking, choosing Change picture from stock images. If you want to make any adjustments to the cropping of these, you can right-click on them and choose crop and then holding down shift, for example, I could move this to the center. Now I could just quickly paste in my title texts that I had earlier. That looks good. But if I wanted to add some extra description text, I could just put something in like this. And again, I'm holding down Control and Shift and dragging it to copy it into the other positions. Then Control D to duplicate it, to put it up here. Control and Shift. For the final textblock. This image here could do with a bit of adjusting. And for any of those, you can click on them and then use the cursor keys to make some fine adjustments to position them exactly where you want. I think that looks great using shapes and combining them. And also being able to use circular images, such as these photos makes for a really strong infographic 16. Using PowerPoint's built-in maps: Map Infographics, Show locations and give them labeled descriptions. In this lesson, we'll show you how you can create this powerful map infographic using the integrated map chart type. So to recreate this, we'll start with a plain background. And then to insert the map, we can go to Insert Chart and select map. By default, the entire world map will appear. And the data for this map will be shown in this sheet. I only want to use. So I'm going to delete all of this by selecting all the cells and then clicking Delete. And firstly, I'll type in UK, then France. And when you type both of these, powerpoint will automatically add in other European countries directly into the map. If you add any values to these, you better see the PowerPoint highlights them. So in our example, I had the following. Simply by adding any numbers, you will see the PowerPoint highlights them directly in the map. Now we can close down this data panel. Now I'm going to remove the title. So we'll click on the title and click on the legend, and click Delete to remove that. Now if I click on the map and make sure that's selected, I'm going to choose to fill that in in white. Right-click and choose Format Data Series and go to the fill option. I'm going to make this 50 per cent. I also don't want any outline. So I can go to Shape, outline, and choose narrow line. We can add color in individual countries in whichever colors we like. You can click to select them. Go to the fill option. With this, I want zero transparency. I'm just picking colors from a theme. So click, select them out and then clicked slept the country. And you can fill it in whatever color you choose. So there are the colors that I'm going to be using for this. Now we can simply drag it up to the corner and resize it as we wish. And to do that, I'm going to hold down Shift while dragging out the corner to re-size. That looks good. Now let's add the circles and the percentages. And to do that, we'll go to the drawing section, choose oval and click anywhere. I'm going to make this a dark gray fill and change the transparency to 70 per cent. Then the outline to one point and white. I'll type in my text. I made this fig tree bold. The percentage I had an 18 points. The number itself I had at 28 point. I also want to click on this option here and make sure that it doesn't wrap the text and the shape. Now once we have one of these, we can simply press Control D to duplicate it, drag it into the position we want, and type our new number. Now we can paste in our text the colors of these headline titles. I'm going to choose the eyedropper tool rollover, this section I want, and that will change the color. In this case, I'm taking it from the center of the circle that overlays the color of the country. And finally, we can add our information text on the left. And I'm just going to quickly paste this in. And to add a panel behind it, I can go to the rectangle, rectangle behind the area. Right-click on it and choose Edit Points. And then pick up the black square in the corner and drag it in very slightly to give this nice angle. Now I can fill it in this dark color. Make sure it's got no line and set the transparency. It's something high, like 90 per cent. Then right-click and choose send to back. You can always make adjustments to this by right-clicking again, I'm going to edit points. I just want this to come out a tiny bit more. That looks good. So there's a good way of making strong and powerful map-based infographics directly in PowerPoint using the inbuilt map chart type 17. Stylized world map: Map Infographics, Show locations and give them labels and descriptions. In this lesson, I'll show you how you can style the map areas to produce a more unique look. So we'll start with this standard map of the world, which is a vector file. So it's not a JPEG or bitmap or a PNG that has been downloaded from the Internet. Instead, it's a vector file which is actually made up of lines rather than dots. This means it can be scaled and colored easily inside applications such as PowerPoint. You can get these for many resources online. If you'd like to use this example, you can easily download the source file that comes with this lesson. So firstly, we'll customize the map with some 3D rotation. And to do that, we can right-click on it, choose Format, Shape. Then go over to these effects and choose 3D rotation. You can then go to the presets option and go down to the Perspective section and choose this one. Perspective relaxed. You can then adjust the Y rotation as you like. For example, if you want to add more text at the top or bottom, when you add a 3D rotation to any item in PowerPoint, 3D formatting will automatically be added, the material and lighting. And you can adjust any of these as you like. Now we can add a circle which will be used for our pattern. And to do that, you go up to oval in the drawing section. Look anywhere. I'm going to fill this in, in a medium gray. Change it to have no outline. Then go to soft edges and add a 20 point soft edge size. Now when I click Control C, that will be copied, I can click on the map. Go to Fill, choose picture or texture fill. Then click on clipboard. Now, that's added, the circle has an entire texture. If we click on the tile picture is texture option, we can then scale this down. So something around five per cent would look good. There's our map with the stylized dots. Can delete this. Move this down slightly. That's looking good. Now let's have the descriptions. So let's go back up to the oval, click anywhere. And for these, I'm going to make them no 0.75 cm. And I have the colors just below that I'm going to use. So I can choose them from there using the eyedropper tool. The line, I want the same color, ten point width of 50% transparency. Now I can go to effects again and add the same rotation sets, 3D rotation perspective relaxed and adjust this to the same, which was about 300,299.6. And put this into position. Then I can press Control D to duplicate it, drag it to wherever I want it. And again, use the eyedropper tool to take the color and then Control D to create the others. Each time taking the color from the palette I have below. Now I have the dots. I can create a panel for information above it. So I can click on the rounded corner rectangle to add that. Click anywhere. I'm going to make these four by 6.7, slightly less rounded several grab the little yellow dots and pull it to the left. I'll set this to no outline. Give it a fill of a soft gray. Then we can add the title of this box. Again, rounded corner rectangle. This time we want to pick up the yellow dot and drag it all the way in. I'm going to use fig tree extra bold for this. Use the same color, which I did for the dot. This time with a six-point outline. Again, 50% transparency. Then we'll drag it into position on the panel and size it down. I can align it with the center of the panel by holding down Shift and clicking to select both of them. Then going to arrange Align, Align Center. If I hold down shift while dragging this down, it will lock to the exposition. And I'm going to make this a little more rounded. It's good. Now I'll just quickly paste in my description text and draw a line from here to the circle. The line I'm going to make 2.5 width and the same color. And I'm going to select them dash type the second one down, which is round dot. Then Shift-click to make sure all of these are selected. I can group them with Control J and then just hold down Shift to drag this into the center of this line. We can use the cursor keys, some fine adjustments. Now if I click on this one, we can easily create the others by holding down Control and Shift and dragging this. I can select the color for my colors below. Quickly replace this text. Copy of the line over again holding down Control Shift. And then Shift to make it shorter, and then make it the right color. That's looking good. I'll now show you how to create one at the bottom. Then I can quickly duplicate them. So we'll click on this one, press Control D to duplicate, drag it into position. Type in our new text. Change the color. And also for the outline. We can press Control D on our dotted line and then drag it into position. I can use the mouse wheel while holding down control to zoom in. I'll just drag it up to here. Then it will snap to the middle. And then we can make some small adjustments to put this straight. Either with the mouse or with the cursor keys. And you'll see that as you drag this dotted line will follow it. Now we'll click on the dotted line and make it the right color. Now, I'll just quickly duplicate this to make the last couple. And there's the end result. A nice way of taking what is a basic map and customizing it to give it a more bespoke load 18. Icon-based pictorial chart: These pictorial fraction charts can be created easily in PowerPoint using icons and typography. For this lesson, I'll show you an example comparing two different statistics on the left and right. So here is our contents that we want to show. The message is that Internet access has increased and we'd like to show this visually. First of all, we'll get an icon that will represent what we're showing. So we'll go to Insert Icons. If I type internet, these options come up and I'm going to choose this. We can now make this white using Shape Fill. And I want this to be a bit smaller. So I will right-click on it, choose format, graphic, the size and shape options, and choose 1.189 for this example, we need to make 100 copies of these. That's quite easy to do in PowerPoint. I'll just position it down here. If I press Control D, Well that's selected, it will duplicate it. Then if I drag it into position where it's aligned, let go. Next time I press Control D, PowerPoint will automatically put it in the right place. Then I just do that until there's ten of them. At the moment, we've got 345-67-8910. If I select all of these, press Control D again, and then drag these up into position. That's 20. Control D again, 30, 405-060-7080, 9,100. So there's 100 icons perfectly spaced underlined. So now I'll draw a selection marquee over them by clicking and holding and dragging it over the top of all of them and then pressing Control G to group them. I'm going to take my statistic here of 66%, cut it and paste it. And I'm going to make it really big 60 point for this. I'm going to rewrite this slightly. Then I'll click on the houses, hold down Shift and drag them to the left. I'm just going to move this up a tiny bit. So I'll click on the houses, then shift click to select the text above. Shift click to select that text as well, and then move it up a bit. That looks good. Now I can duplicate this while it's still selected by clicking and holding on this outer line, then holding down Control Shift and dragging to the right. We can actually make sure these are exactly centered if we want, like Control G to group and then go to arrange, Align and align to the center, which will align it to the center of the slide. Now I can drag this into position by shift clicking to select them all and then moving them over to the left. I'm just going to reduce the size of this text. While it's selected. I can press Control and left square bracket to do that. Now I can type in the statistics of the right-hand side. That looks good. Now let's add the color to highlight the key information. So we'll select the 66, the pink color. I also added it to the 2009. Now, I want to make the first 66 of the houses pink. So I'll click to select all of the houses. Control Shift G to ungroup. Control Shift G to ungroup again. Then I can select as many of these as I want. If you want to add more, you can hold down Shift and drag the cursor over them. That's 612-34-5666. And now I can color all those the same pink. This might take a few seconds as PowerPoint can slow down when there are a lot of icons on the screen. Now, I can add the green to this side. So I'll select the text, choose the green, select the year, choose the green. You can always select one word at a time just by double-clicking on it. Now I'm going to select 91 of these. So that's the first nine rows and this one by holding down Shift and then choosing the green. That looks good. But in my example, I did one other thing and that was to change the icons for the ones that didn't have the internet access. And to do that, we can select all of them. Then right-click Change graphic from icons. As these are PowerPoint icons, we can always change them at any point. Then I typed house. Just selected the icon for the house that didn't have the WiFi. There we go. Really nice way of using icons to make this pictorial fraction chart 20. Creating an infographic from a big image: When you have a really nice big image, you can use it as the basis of an infographic. Here I have an image from the PowerPoint stock library that we can use to display information about various types of pasta. So I'll start on a completely blank background and I'll go and get the big image first. To do that, we'll go to insert pictures and stock images. I just typed to pasta and then selected this image. Now we want to crop it to fit the full screen. And to do that, we can go to crop aspect ratio and choose 16 to nine, which is the aspect ratio of most screens. I can now hold down Shift and drag up the image to make more of it visible in the cropped area. Click off it and then drag it to the corner. Then I can click on the top right hand corner and drag that and it will snap into the corner. Now I've got my big image. And I can right-click on this and choose lock. This will help me as I worked through adding the graphics because I won't accidentally click on it and move it. So now we can add the line up to the texts that were just about to create. To do that, we'll click on line. I'll start from about here, drag it down. And I can right-click, go to Format Shape. I'll change the width to two point. Color to a mid gray. And the end arrow type to an oval arrow. And the arrow size to the largest, which is size nine. Now I can add my text. I'll create a textbox here, type in my information, and then format it. Now I can press Control a to select it all. Make it to my selected color. Double-click on the name of the pasta and press Control B to make it bold per want this to be 16 point. I don't want that description to be 11 point. Also centered. Not just drag this down into position. I think this looks good. But I've also added in my example some decorative elements to show how you can add these as well. For those, I've used illustrations to get to these, you can click on Insert Icons and then choose Illustrations. If I click on the decorative category, I can scroll down and select the illustration that I want to use for this. So if I hold down control and shift and drag the corner handle will make it smaller. Then I can right-click on this and choose to send backward to put it behind the text. I also want it to be behind the line. So I'm going to click and send it backward one more. Now the lines at the front, That's looking good. I don't think the text is as clear as it could be to read on this decorative element is important that these elements don't distract from the message. So to make this stand out more, I can convert it to a shape and add a gradient. So if I right-click that shape. Now we can edit this as we want. And if I go into Format Shape and then choose Gradient fill, select the type to be radial. Select both colors to be black, and the direction to be the middle one from the center. Then we'll click on the gradient, stop on the left and make that 100% transparent. Then we'll go to the one on the right, make that 80% transparent. Then I can click on the left gradient stop and pull this in. It's position is changed and that adds more white behind the text. So you can see the effect it's having to make it clearer to read, but still using the illustration behind it. Now the text is more readable, but we have an interesting visual element to add for each category. Now I'll just quickly paste in the other text. But if you are creating this from scratch, you can always select the first piece of text and hold down Control and Shift to drag it to make a copy. For the illustration elements, you can either press Control D and copy them and drag them behind. Or we can create various ones as I've done in my example. If we go back to insert icons and choose illustrations and press decorative, I can select this example, convert it to a shape by right-clicking on it. Set its size to the same as this one, which is four. Then when you go onto gradient fill, the gradient will already be in there because it's the one we previously used. Now we can drag it into position and right-click and send it to the back. Making sure that we then right-click on the main image and send that to the back. And now I can just quickly paste in the other graphic illustrations that I've used. Right-click on these and choose Send to Back. Then right-click on the background and choose center back, that will put everything in the correct order. Then finally, I can just add a title. So I'll click anywhere, type my title. Make it the color that I want. 48 point. I want it to be fig tree extra bold, centered. And I hold down Shift and drag it up to the right position. So there's a nice way of adding text and other graphic elements to a big image to make an infographic 21. Using photos to add impact: Here we can use small photos and typography to create this infographic style. So we'll start with this background. We'll get our first image from a stock library. So we'll go to Insert Pictures, stock images, and type dog. We can crop this to a circle by going to crop, crop to shape, choosing oval. Then go to crop again. And this time choose aspect ratio one-to-one. We can scale up the image slightly to fit better in the circle. To do that, we can click on this corner point and drag it up to about there. Then when we click off, I can now right-click on this and set it to the size I want, which is going to be 7.3. And I also want to add an outline at three point size. So we'll go to solid line, make sure it's on white and select three points. Now I can add my circle with the text title in the middle. If you click and drag and hold down Shift, it will create a perfect circle. I actually want this to be 11 cm big. So I'll type 11 by 11 in the size. And I want it to have no outline and a white fill black text. I don't want this to be fig tree extra bold at 40 point size. I also want to go to the Text Options. Click on the textbox Settings so I can make sure that this doesn't wrap in shape. I also want to change the line spacing slightly so we can go to the top here, go to line spacing, and choose Line Spacing Options. I'm going to set it to a multiple. Go for naught point types, which will reduce it. The gaps that it currently has quite big. Now we can center it on the page by going to arrange a line in choosing Align Center. Then arrange align, align middle. I can click on the dog picture, right-click and choose Bring to Front. Once we have this image positioned where we want it, we can press control D to create the other one. Now if we shift click to select both of these and press Control G, I can go to arrange, align lines center and holding down Control and Shift. I can drag these down. Select the ones above again with Shift and click, press Control J, and now go to arrange, Align and align middle. So now everything is aligned in the center of the page. Now going to add in panels for the text description. For these, I'm going to use the shape here, which is called rectangle with top corners rounded. We can click anywhere to add that. I'm going to fill it in black with no outline just while I'm working on it. If you hold down Shift and click on this circle and the top, you can rotate it this way. Round. Again, set this so it's the same height as the circle. Drag it to about there, and then click on the small yellow dot and drag it to the right to make it fully rounded. Now I can right-click on this and choose center back. I can hold down Control and Shift, make a copy of this, put it into position. The smart guides will show you where you want it. And again, we can right-click and choose Send to Back. Now I can pick up both of these, Control and Shift. Then we can go to arrange, rotate, and choose flip horizontal, and then drag those into position. And finally, right-click center back. There's all our texts panels in. I'm now going to set these panels to be a nice subtle gradient. So I can go to fill, gradient fill. I can drag off the stops. I don't want go to the one on the left. Make sure it's some white. Go to the one on the right. Make sure it's on white. The one on the left, I'm going to set 50% transparent. The one on the right, I'm going to set to 100% transparent. That just provides a nice subtle way of making a panel that blends in with the background. I can now apply it to the other one. Because we've now set our gradient. I can click on this panel, then Shift-click, Shift-click again, and then go to gradient fill, and it will automatically fill it in with the most recent gradient. I'll press Control Z to undo this, to show you that the other way of doing this is to press Control shift C on the gradient you have, and then select the others and press Control Shift V. So by going to gradient fill, it will use the most recent gradient. But you can also copy and paste the style using Control Shift C and Control Shift V. Now we can change the other pictures. So if we click on these, we can press Control Shift G to ungroup and Control Shift G to ungroup. Again, we can right-click on this and choose Change Picture and stock images I'm going to use this one. And if we right-click on this and Juice crop, we can hold down Shift and drag it into the position we want. We'll right-click on this one, Change Picture and stock images. That one looks pretty good already. Right-click, Change picture from stock images. Right-click and crop. Just going to bring this up a bit. If you hold down control and shift or dragging the corner handle, it will scale it up from the center. And then if you hold down shift, you can drag it up to the position you want it. These all look good. I'm just going to crop the dog very slightly. It's a tiny bit smaller in the frame. Great. Now let's add the text. Firstly, we'll add the key figures. We can click anywhere with the text. I made this fig tree extra bold and chose 60 point for the numbers and 36 point for the percentage. Then make it white because it's on a photo. You can benefit from having something like a shadow effect applied. You can see it clearly. And to do that, we'll go to Format, Shape, shape options. Choose the effects, which is the one in the middle here. Go to Shadow, select any preset, and then we'll make a couple of changes. That looks a bit better already, but we can make this a bit darker. For example, 20% transparency, say ten points for the blur. Then we can make sure it's aligned to the center of the photo. By clicking on the text. Shift, clicking on the photo, I'm going to arrange a line, line center. Now I can make a copy of this for the other statistics. So we can click on this one, hold down Control and Shift and drag it across. And try new number. And again align them. Then select both of these, drag them down while holding Control and Shift. Enter our numbers, make sure they're aligned to the center. Now I can just quickly paste in my text. Here I've used fig tree regular 12 point and black. And finally, to make this middle circle a bit more subtle, because at the moment is bright white. We can add a similar gradient that this time I'm going to choose 20% transparency for the gradient stop on the left, which is the top part of the circle. Then 70% that the gradient stop on the right, which is the bottom part. So there's a nice way of using photography to help add impact TO infographics 22. Simple comparison: Here is a typical table that you often see in PowerPoint when comparing two products or services. Let's turn this into an infographic that has more impact. We'll start with a blank slide. Paste in the colors I'm going to use, and then add the title. This, I'm going to use fig tree extra bold, 48 point size. We'll drag this out so it doesn't wrap, align it to the center of the page. Hold down shift and move it up, which keeps center position. I'll make this text the dark green color. Now add two panels for this. I'm going to use a rounded corner rectangle and pick up the yellow dot and drag it to the left to reduce the roundness of the corners. I'm going to give this now outline. The shape, fill the lighter green. Now I'm going to go to the size and make this 13.2 by 12.7. I'll press Control D to duplicate this and fill this in with my third color. I can, I click on both of these G to group. Make sure they're aligned to the center of the page. Let's now add the text content for each product. I'll quickly just paste in my text. Drag this box down into position. And if I hold down shift and click on this, I can go to arrange, Align and align middle, put it in exactly the right place. I've put the category labels such as who can get it and dosage together with the product information here. So we've gone from a three-column table to what I think is a more pleasing two column layout. I'll now pass in the text for the second vaccine. Drag it into position. Again, hold down shift and click on the back panel. Then go to arrange, Align and align middle to make sure it's in exactly the right place. And now I can hold down Shift and drag it over a bit. If I had product images, I would probably add them to each side of the slide, but in this case I don't. So we'll add some imagery to the center to add impact and provide a bit of context. For this, I can go to Insert, click on Icons and then you have the option for illustrations. If I type microscope, this will appear. Insert it straight into the document. It will change its specific color to the colors of a theme. But you can also go to home, shape, fill, and choose any of the colors that you want to fill in, the highlight color. I'm going to choose this dark green and then go to the corner, click and then hold down Control and Shift to size it from the center. Then hold down Shift and drag it down. And make it a little bit bigger. Control and shift on the corners, hold down Shift and drag it up a bit. That looks good to me. Just going to drag this box in slightly to make some space. At the top in the center here, I'm going to add a shape that has versus written in it. And for that, I'm going to use this flowchart shape called flowchart decision. Look anywhere. Drag the corners and the center to size it up to the size we want. And I'm also going to make the shape the dark green with no outline. And right versus also extra bold and to 26 point size. For the final touch, I'm going to add some icons for each of these categories. To do this, I'm going to click on this text and make sure that it's aligned to the right. Then hold down Shift and drag it across. This will give us room for the icons, and I'll do the same with this. Now we have a nice area down here where we can align all of our icons. Go to Insert icons. People. Click on this one here. Size it down a little bit. Make sure it's filled with white. That looks good. I can hold down Control and Shift to drag this one over here. And because it's an icon in PowerPoint, I can right-click, say change graphic, and choose icons, and select a relevant icon there. I can now click on that one. Shift, click on that one, hold down Control and Shift as I drag. Then change these. We can change both of these at the same time. Right-click icons. This, there's two shots, so I can hold down to make a duplicate and then drag these into position. I'm going to make another copy of these. Right-click Change graphic from icons. Just select anything that's relevant. So do the results. I'm going to use a doughnut chart instead of an icon because it's customizable. So we can click on Chart. I choose donut Can delete these two items of data and just type something like 90.10. For this 90% results. We can click once, click a second time, then fill this in with no fill. And for this, I can just make it white with no outline. Click on this one. Make sure that also has an outline. Then we can re-size this really small by holding down shift in the corner. We want to make sure all of this is removed so we can click on it, delete, drag it into position, size it down to the size we want. Now I can type the text 90. Make that big tree extra bold as well. Use the cursors to adjust the position. That looks good for the 75% one on the right. I can just take a copy of this, so I'll make sure it's all selected. I can click and hold down the mouse and drag it over the top to do that. Then click and hold down Control and Shift and drag this over here, which will keep its y position and make a copy of it. Again, I can use the cursors, refine adjustments, and I can just type in 75. That looks really good. There's just one final bit to do. That is to adjust this doughnut chart to 75 to match the text and the results text. And to do that, we can right-click on it, go to Edit Data. Change this to 75.25. That's great. A really good way of taking a basic table in PowerPoint and converting it into a powerful comparison infographic. For a small variation, we can take the colored panels and make them fill exactly half of the screen each to make a more colorful option. So to do that, we could click on the panels, Control Shift G to ungroup them. And then we can remove the rounded corners by clicking on the yellow dot and dragging it all the way to the left. If I hold down this edge circle, I can drag it into the center. And you'll see the smart guides appear. If for any reason these don't appear, you can right-click on the background here and make sure that under Grids and Guides, Smart Guides is ticked on. We can now click on this point and drag it to the top. This point and drag it to the left. Then this point, and drag it to the bottom. I'm going to make this text white and bring it to the front. So it stands out. Then we'll do the same with this where we drag it into the middle. It will snap to the top, to the right, and to the bottom. That's looking really nice. But we can also click with our mouse and drag over these items. Then hold down Shift and drag them to the left, just to add a little bit of extra space. Now we're using the whole screen and do the same for this side. Hold down, Shift and drag. Excellent. That's looking really good. Remember, we started with just this, a very basic table that we often see in PowerPoint because it's the default way that when people add in a table, the information comes across. But by using simple methods of laying out your text and choosing icons, nice colors, and illustrations. You can turn it into something much more memorable and impactful. 23. Summary: Congratulations on finishing this course. I hope you found some new ideas for how to create infographics in PowerPoint. And you can now make great infographics quickly and easily in order to present your message or effectively and with greater impact. 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