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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. If you've enjoyed this course, please leave a review and
if you have any feedback, please get in touch.