In this lecture, you are going to learn some resizing shortcuts and you will
also learn how to customize the icons that we have added in the previous
lecture. As said before, these are general icons, that means these are not inserted
using font awesome. So PowerPoint treats them as a shape
instead of font. So to resize them, you can just select any icon and resize them
manually using these resize dots. But sometimes while resizing you may
collapse the structure or the aspect ratio. Let me undo it.
So to increase them proportionately, you can go to format and size, then expand
this, size and position. Alternatively, to get into this size and
position, right click
this icon, go to format graphic, come to this size and properties tab.
Now make sure you have enabled lock aspect ratio. After that, if you increase
the height or decrease the height or increase the width or decrease the width,
then you can resize the icon proportionately. The another great way to
resize these icons or any shapes or any image is by using shortcut keys in
keyboard. These are called resizing shortcuts. Let me place this icon here.
Now when I resize this icon, it restricts me from custom resizing spots, because it
automatically aligns me to this proportioned positions, like these red
dots and the direct slide end or a slight corner. So if I wish to fine-tune
this, then hold alt key and then resize the icon or the image, which will
temporarily disable these guides. So you can resize without using the guide. This
is the use of Alt key in our keyboard. Next let's assume that I have placed
this icon in the center of this circle. Now I wish to resize it so that this
icon gets accommodated inside the circle. So if I just resize it plainly, then it
gets off-center. So I might need to recenter it again. Instead if I place it
in the center and press control shift and then resize, it resizes along the
center.
This gets enlarged or reduced along the center. I'm just holding ctrl + Shift key
together. Next to take a copy of this icon,
hold ctrl key, click and drag this icon. In this way, you can take a copy of this
icon. So these are the three main shortcuts, that we have learnt till now.
The fourth one is by using just the shift key. Let me explain that using this shape.
When I just expand the shape or resize it, you can see the proportion is getting
changed. So let me undo.
To resize the shape, preserving the proportion. If I hold shift key and
resize it. Even if I change or move the mouse, along the length or breadth, the
proportion is maintained. This is also useful when you draw a perfect square or
a perfect equilateral triangle or a perfect circle. So to draw those perfect
shapes, you just need to hold shift key. So these are the four main shortcuts
that you need to know while designing PowerPoint slides. Let me reiterate them.
The first one is Alt key, which enables you to move or resize an
image without the guidelines. The next one is ctrl shift, which enables you
to resize along the center. The third one is control key, which
enables you to take a copy of anything, a safe a text or an icon anything. The
fourth one is shift key, which enables you to resize proportionately or to even
draw a perfect shape like square, circle or equilateral triangle. Now let me
delete the unwanted icons. In the next lecture, you will learn how
to format the background and change the default color scheme of a PowerPoint
presentation.