"About Us" - Inserting Images, Icons and Text - Part 2

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Slide 2, About Us - Inserting images, icons and text - Part 2

In Part 2 of this lesson we are going to continue building the 'About Us' slide. We will pick up where we left off and add icons and text to our slide. 

Instructions

Ungroup Shapes

  1. Select the grouped shapes. 
  2. Press CTRL+SHIFT+G to ungroup the shapes. 

Insert, Format and Align Icons

  1. From the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, select Icons. 
  2. Browse or search for an icon. 
  3. Type the keyword 'world' into the search field. 
  4. Select the icon and click Insert. 
  5. From the Graphics Format tab, in the Graphics Styles group, select Graphics Fill. 
  6. Select White, Background 1 from the pallette. 
  7. Drag and drop the icon onto the first circle. 
  8. Select the icon, hold down SHIFT and select the circle. 
  9. From the Graphics Format tab, in the Arrange group, click Align. 
  10. Select Align Middle and Align Center. 
  11. Repeat steps 2-11 to add icons to the other three circles. 

Insert a Text Box and Format Text

  1. From the Insert tab, in the Text group, select Text box. 
  2. Type 'Students in 85 Countries'.
  3. From the Home tab, in the Font group, select Lato from the font style list. 
  4. From the Paragraph group, select Center alignment to center the text in the text box. 
  5. Use the Smart Guides to position the text box underneath the icon.
  6. Press CTRL+D to duplicate the text box. 
  7. Change the text to '500+ Courses'. 
  8. Position using the Smart Guides. 
  9. Press CTRL+D to duplicate the text box two more times. 
  10. Add the text 'Live Training' and 'Content Creation'. 
  11. Select all text boxes
  12. From the Home tab, in the Font group, change the font size to 16pts.
  13. From the Graphics Format tab, in the Arrange group, click Align. 
  14. Select Align to Top. 
  15. Press CTRL+G to group the text boxes. 
  16. Use the arrow keys to make minor positional adjustments. 
  17. From the Insert tab, in the Text group, select Text box. 
  18. Add the title 'About Us'. 
  19. From the Home tab, in the Font group, change the font style to Lato Black and the font size to 44pts. Change the font color to a light blue. 
  20. From the Insert tab, in the Text group, select Text box. 
  21. Add a subheading and some descriptive text. Format as necessary. 

Hints & tips

  • Format text contained within a text box by selecting the text or clicking on the placeholder. 
  • Improve your efficiency by duplicating text boxes and shapes that are already formatted. 
  • A wider selection of icons can be found on the Noun Project website. 
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  • 00:04 Welcome back to part 2 where this lesson continues.
  • 00:08 Now I need to add some icons into the center of the shapes.
  • 00:12 Now before I do that, I'm going to do Ctrl Shift G to ungroup these shapes and
  • 00:16 make them individual objects again.
  • 00:18 Now icons can be a really effective way of adding interest into your slides.
  • 00:24 And I showed you on the previous lessons, the noun project website where you can go
  • 00:28 to access 1000s and 1000s of different icons.
  • 00:31 But PowerPoint does also contain its own icon library.
  • 00:36 So in this example, let's use some of those icons instead.
  • 00:40 So up to insert in the illustrations group, let's click icons.
  • 00:46 This pulls up the icon library and we can then search for the icons that we want.
  • 00:50 So the first icon I'm going to search for is the world.
  • 00:53 So I just need to type in the keyword.
  • 00:55 It runs a search and pulls back all matching icons.
  • 00:59 So let's choose this one just here and click on Insert.
  • 01:04 Now the cool thing about these icons is they are completely customizable,so I can
  • 01:09 resize this little guy.
  • 01:10 I can go up to the graphics format contextual ribbon and
  • 01:13 do things like change the outline, change the fill or even add an effect.
  • 01:18 So I'm going to change the fill to white.
  • 01:21 And I'm going to drag it down and let's just make this a little bit bigger.
  • 01:26 And then I'm going to place it in the center of my circle.
  • 01:30 Now again if I want to make sure this is exactly in the center,
  • 01:34 if I select the world icon, hold down Shift and select the circle.
  • 01:39 I can then use my alignment tools.
  • 01:41 And this time I'm going to grab them from the quick access toolbar.
  • 01:44 I can go to align, and I can say align center.
  • 01:48 And I also want to do align middle,
  • 01:50 to make sure that that is exactly in the middle of the circle.
  • 01:54 Now I'm going to away and
  • 01:56 insert three more icons into these circles in exactly the same way.
  • 02:00 So please rejoin me in a couple of seconds.
  • 02:03 So the final thing to do here is really just to add in the text.
  • 02:06 So I'm going to show you how to add in a couple of text boxes.
  • 02:09 But this is pretty much the same as what we've already done.
  • 02:12 So let's jump up to insert and add a text box, and
  • 02:16 I want this text to say students in 85 countries.
  • 02:21 Once again, I don't particularly like that font.
  • 02:23 So let's change that.
  • 02:25 Let's click the drop down.
  • 02:26 I'm going to change that to lato.
  • 02:29 And I'm going to center that using my alignment tools in the text box.
  • 02:33 And then just position it in the center of this object using that red
  • 02:38 dotted guideline.
  • 02:40 Now a quick way of adding these other labels in is again just
  • 02:43 to duplicate that textbox.
  • 02:46 So I'm going to do Ctrl D, drag cross and
  • 02:49 I can use my alignment guides to align this text.
  • 02:54 And this one is going to say 500+, Courses.
  • 03:01 Ctrl D to duplicate again.
  • 03:05 We're going to have live training, Ctrl D.
  • 03:13 Content creation.
  • 03:14 And looking at this font size, I'm actually going to select all of these
  • 03:19 text boxes by holding down my Shift key and just clicking, and
  • 03:23 I'm going to bring that size down to 16.
  • 03:26 And to make things look a little bit neater, once again,
  • 03:29 with them all selected, I'm going to use my alignment tools and say align to top.
  • 03:33 Now I want to move all of these labels up a little bit closer to their icon.
  • 03:39 So let's press Ctrl G to group them and then I can either drag up or
  • 03:43 if I want to be a little bit more granular with my movement, I can use the up and
  • 03:48 down arrows on my PC.
  • 03:52 And that gives me a little bit more control as to exactly where I'm placing
  • 03:56 those labels.
  • 03:57 Now the final thing to do on this slide is just add a title and a little bit of text.
  • 04:02 And once again, I'm just going to insert a text box.
  • 04:06 And the title is about us.
  • 04:08 Let's change that font and
  • 04:10 this time we're going to stick with lato black as this is a heading.
  • 04:13 I'm going to make this font a bit bigger.
  • 04:15 So let's pump this up to a 44 points, and
  • 04:18 I'm also going to change the color to the same color as the title on the title page.
  • 04:25 Now I don't want to have expanded character spacing here.
  • 04:28 I'm just going to place that somewhere like that.
  • 04:32 And the final thing to do is just add another text box with the subheading and
  • 04:36 a little bit of information.
  • 04:38 And I'm not going to do this Is any differently to how we've been adding text
  • 04:41 boxes so far.
  • 04:42 So I'm going to do that very quickly off camera and
  • 04:45 I'll rejoin you in a couple of seconds.
  • 04:47 There we go. With a few additional techniques,
  • 04:49 we've been able to create a really nice looking about our slide.
  • 04:52 In the next lesson I'm going to talk you through how to create divider slides to
  • 04:57 help you organize your presentation.

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