"Our Products" - More Shapes, Pictures, and Text - Part 1

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In part 1 of this lesson, we will build an 'Our Products' home page using shapes, pictures, text and formatting options. 

Quick reference

Slide 8: Our Products - Working with Hyperlinks -  Part 1

In Part 1 of this lesson we are going to create an 'Our Products' slide to pitch our products and services to the client. We will map out a layout for our products slide using shapes, fill the shapes with images that represent each product and then add some labels.

In Part 2 of this lesson, we will create product description pages and then link to them from the main product page using hyperlinks. 

When to use

Create a product page whenever you wish to showcase the products and services offered by the company. 

Instructions

Map out the Product Page Layout

  1. Press CTRL+D to duplicate the title slide. 
  2. Remove the logo, company name and tagline. 
  3. Press CTRL+D 5 times to duplicate the slide (we will use these slides in Part 2).
  4. From the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click Shapes. 
  5. Select the Rectangle shape. 
  6. Draw 5 rectangles of various sizes.  
  7. Select all of the rectangles. 
  8. From the Shape Format tab, in the Shape Styles group, click Shape Outline. 
  9. Select No Outline. 
  10. Press CTRL+G to group them together. 
  11. From the Shape Format tab, in the Arrange group, click Align. 
  12. Select Align Middle and Align Center. 
  13. Press CTRL+SHIFT+G to ungroup the shapes. 

Fill the Shapes with Pictures

  1. Select the first shape. 
  2. Right-click and select Format Shape from the contextual menu. 
  3. From the Shape Options tab, in the Fill group, select Picture and texture fill. 
  4. Select Insert. 
  5. Select From a File. 
  6. Browse to the folder where the image is stored. 
  7. Select the desired image and click Insert. 
  8. From the Picture Format tab, in the Size group, click the lower-half of the Crop button. 
  9. Click Fill. 
  10. Reposition the image if necessary. 
  11. Click Crop. 
  12. Repeat the steps to fill the rest of the shapes with pictures. 
  13. Select all of the shapes. 
  14. From the Shape Format tab, in the Shape Styles group, click Shape Outline. 
  15. Select White, Background 1 from the palette. 

Add Labels

  1. From the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click Shapes. 
  2. Select Rounded Rectangle. 
  3. Draw a small rounded rectangle on top of the first picture. 
  4. From the Shape Format tab, in the Shape Styles group, click Shape Fill. 
  5. Choose a dark green color from the palette. 
  6. Select Shape Outline. 
  7. Select White, Background 1 from the palette. 
  8. Add the text 'Voiceovers' to the shape. 
  9. Press CTRL+D to duplicate the shape 4 more times. 
  10. Change the text in each to, 'Live Training', 'Webinars', 'Blogs', 'Content Creation'. 

Add a Slide Title

  1. Scroll to the 'Meet the Team' slide. 
  2. Select the heading placeholder. 
  3. Press CTRL+C to copy. 
  4. Go back to the current slide. 
  5. Press CTRL+V to paste. 
  6. Edit the text to say 'Our Products'. 

Hints & tips

  • Get inspired by reasearching product page layouts on Pinterest. 
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  • 00:04 It's time now to build an Our Products slide.
  • 00:07 And this type of slide is mainly used to advertise the products or
  • 00:11 services that you're pitching to the particular client.
  • 00:15 And of course, there's numerous different ways that you can design these,
  • 00:18 not necessarily just how I've done mine.
  • 00:20 But what I've tried to do here is keep this fairly simple and straightforward.
  • 00:24 Because the main thing that I want to show you in this particular lesson
  • 00:29 is how to hyperlink or jump to other slides in your presentation.
  • 00:34 So if we very quickly run this presentation from the current side,
  • 00:38 what you'll notice is that as I hover over any of these pictures,
  • 00:42 I get a little screen tip pop up.
  • 00:45 So for example, this one says Click to Jump to Live Training.
  • 00:49 If I click, it's going to jump me to the Live Training side,
  • 00:52 which gives a little bit more detail about that particular subject.
  • 00:58 Now, one thing you'll notice here is that it's not quite as easy to jump back
  • 01:02 because I haven't put any kind of backlink on here.
  • 01:05 But we're going to deal with that in this lesson.
  • 01:08 For the time being, I'm going to press Escape.
  • 01:10 And what you'll notice is that in the Slides pane, I've created a brand new
  • 01:15 slide for each of these different disciplines, and that is really important.
  • 01:20 If you're going to start creating links to jump to other slides, you need to make
  • 01:24 sure you have all of the slides set up first before you add in the hyperlink.
  • 01:29 So in this lesson, we're going to start out by creating this Our Products side,
  • 01:33 then I'm going to show you briefly how I created this particular slide.
  • 01:37 And this is a very straightforward design, just using shapes and images.
  • 01:41 And then I'm going to show you how you can hyperlink to different slides and
  • 01:45 also create things like your own back button.
  • 01:48 So let's get started.
  • 01:50 So I've already created a few background slides to use in this example.
  • 01:55 So the first thing we want to do is create that main product page.
  • 01:58 Now, as I said, loads of different ways that you can do this.
  • 02:02 But to create the one that I just showed you,
  • 02:04 we're just going to use our favorite thing in the world, which is shapes.
  • 02:08 So let's grab our rectangle, and
  • 02:10 I'm going to start mapping out where I want my different pictures to be.
  • 02:15 So we're going to have a one shape just here.
  • 02:18 I'm going to Ctrl+D to duplicate and move that across.
  • 02:22 I'm going to leave a bit of a gap and I'm going to make this one narrower.
  • 02:27 Ctrl+D again, and let's have another one that's pretty much just as narrow.
  • 02:32 Ctrl+D, we're going to have one underneath, but
  • 02:36 this one's going to be a little bit thinner.
  • 02:39 Ctrl+D again, and this one is going to take up the rest of the remaining space.
  • 02:45 So basically we're going to have images of slightly different sizes just to add
  • 02:48 a little bit of interest.
  • 02:50 Now, I'm going to select all of these shapes and
  • 02:52 I'm going to remove the outline.
  • 02:55 And I'm also going to group them together by pressing Ctrl+G.
  • 02:58 And if I want to widen them as a group, I can.
  • 03:01 And I'm going to use my alignment tools to
  • 03:04 make sure that this is dead in the center and also in the middle.
  • 03:10 Now, if you want to add a title at the top like I did,
  • 03:12 then you might want to leave a little bit of room.
  • 03:14 So maybe I want to make this a little bit narrower and a little bit wider, like so.
  • 03:21 Now that I've mapped out the general shape, I can start adding in my pictures.
  • 03:26 And we're going to do this in exactly the same way that we filled shapes with
  • 03:29 pictures before.
  • 03:30 Now, remember, if you have grouped your shapes,
  • 03:33 you need to ungroup them first before you do this, so Ctrl+Shift+G.
  • 03:38 So let's do the first one together.
  • 03:39 Right-click, Format Shape, hopefully by now you're getting this idea,
  • 03:44 down to Picture or text to fill, Insert, and I'm going to select From a File.
  • 03:49 And let's select our first one just here for voiceovers.
  • 03:53 And I'm going to use my favorite, Crop > Fill,
  • 03:56 to make sure that that isn't squished in any way.
  • 04:00 Let's just move that around and click on Crop.
  • 04:03 And I'm going to use exactly the same method to fill out the rest
  • 04:06 of these shapes.
  • 04:07 So join me in a couple of seconds when I've done that.
  • 04:10 Now that I've filled those shapes with pictures,
  • 04:13 I think I actually do want a border around all of these.
  • 04:15 So let's select them all, jump up to Shape Format.
  • 04:19 And I'm going to add a white outline,
  • 04:21 just to make them stand out from the background a little bit.
  • 04:25 I'm now going to add some labels to these pictures.
  • 04:28 So again, this is just a basic shape.
  • 04:29 And this time I'm going to use a rounded rectangle.
  • 04:33 I'm going to drag and just make this label about that big.
  • 04:38 I'm going to change the Shape Fill, and let's do a darker green color.
  • 04:45 And I'm going to give this a white outline.
  • 04:49 And I think that outline is a little bit thick,
  • 04:51 so let's change the weight to something like that.
  • 04:55 And then I'm going to add my text.
  • 05:00 Now, I think that text is very slightly too large,
  • 05:03 so let's take that down to something like 14 points.
  • 05:07 And then I'm just going to drag this in a little bit, like so.
  • 05:13 I'm going to add one of these labels for each of these pictures.
  • 05:16 So again, join me in a couple of moments when I've done that.
  • 05:20 And the final thing I want to do, just to finish off this slide,
  • 05:23 is add in a heading.
  • 05:24 And again, because I'm lazy, I like to grab things from other slides that
  • 05:29 are already formatted in the way I want them formatted,
  • 05:32 as it just saves a little bit of time.
  • 05:35 So if I scroll back and this will do,
  • 05:37 I want this heading to look the same as this Meet the Team heading.
  • 05:41 Ctrl+C to copy, scroll back down, Ctrl+V to paste.
  • 05:47 And then you can move that into position,
  • 05:51 and obviously modify the text to Our Products.
  • 05:55 So I basically have my main slide ready to go.
  • 06:00 What I need to do next is create the slides that I want to link to and
  • 06:04 then insert my hyperlinks.
  • 06:06 So we're going to do that over in the next lesson.
  • 06:08 So I'm going to head over there now, and I look forward to you joining me.
  • 06:11 That's the end of part one.
  • 06:13 This lesson continues in part two.

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