- [Instructor] You might want to come up with
a slide like this, with nice graphics above text,
but it's hard if you don't have a graphics department
or access to a stock footage company website.
We can do this with icons, and we can make good icons
look even better by putting them behind shapes,
and it's also a good way to learn the skill
of object layering.
So let's start by creating a completely blank slide.
I'll click New Slide, and because it took the layout
of the slide above it, I'm going to change it
to a blank layout, and let's get started with some text.
I'm going to click once to select this text box.
I'll hold the Shift key, select this one, and this one.
With all three text boxes selected, I'm going to hit
Control C on my keyboard.
I'll come over to this slide, and hit Control V.
It's going to put that text right in.
I am going to change the color of it.
We'll leave the slide background white.
Now let's start adding some icons.
I'll change to the Insert Ribbon tab.
Let's click Icons.
A new feature of PowerPoint is that
it comes with some really fun icons.
Take some time and look at this.
You'll be able to build a great looking presentation
just from these icons alone.
It comes with a long list of categorized icons
that you are able to use in your presentation.
I'm going to come back up because
I did see ones that I wanted to use.
Here they are.
You can select each icon,
and when you're done selecting them,
click the Insert button.
Now right now they're going to work like graphics.
All three of them are selected,
so I can resize them all at once.
I'll hold the Shift key down,
drag the top corner, and make them a little bit bigger.
Now I can separate them out.
In fact, they do work like images.
If I decided that I still want to make them bigger,
I can click and drag with my mouse to select them all,
hold down the Shift key, and only resize one,
but because they're all selected,
they'll all be resized.
I can even change the color of these icons.
I'll change to the Format tab.
Under Graphics Fill, I can change them
to all sorts of different colors.
It's already starting to look a lot better.
But let's make them stand out even more,
and put shapes behind them.
I'll change to the Insert Ribbon tab,
click the dropdown next to Shapes,
and here is all the shapes I have to choose from.
I'll choose a rounded corner rectangle.
I'll click and drag, and here I can see
the shape that I'm making.
Now I can see the figure behind it,
but when I let go of my mouse,
it instantly disappears because this shape is on top of it.
So what I need to do is right click
and choose Send to Back.
This is going to send the shape to the background
and bring the image to the front.
I want the same shape for the rest of my icons,
so I'm going to once again hit Control C on my keyboard,
and Control V.
I'll do it twice, once for each icon.
I'll drag it on top, and now I need to right click,
and choose Send to Back two more times.
Now that the icon is in front,
I might need to do a little bit more
wiggling around of the shape
to align it properly and to make sure
that the icon is centered
in between that shape.
But once it's done, I have some great looking icons,
and even now, I could further change it.
If I decide that I would like to change the colors,
I can still go back to the Format tab
because I can access the icon.
I'll change the color
and make them nice and uniform.
Now that looks good, and these were all tools
that came right from PowerPoint
with no graphics of my own needed.