Showing posts with label PowerPoint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PowerPoint. Show all posts

Create an Infographic

Infographics are a fun way to promote yourself and your brand. They come in various shapes and sizes and if you're confident in using presentation software like PowerPoint or Open Office, they are quite easy to make.

How to Create your Infographic


To create an infographic in PowerPoint, first select the size of slide on which you wish to work.

From the Design tab, click on Page Setup, first icon on the left of the toolbar and in the drop-down menu presented, choose your size. It can be slide size or as I have chosen for this example, an A4 page size, with portrait orientation.

Back on the Home tab, choose New Slide. You can use a layout with the title or as I have, select a blank slide.

The insert tab allows you to insert pictures, clip art, graphs, text which you can move by right clicking with your mouse to drag wherever you like on the slide.
I like playing with the rotation options –find rotate on the formatting tab. Choose options and you can watch your chosen picture or shape rotating as you increase or decrease the degrees in the selection box.

For this infographic, I inserted a bar chart--simply done by clicking on the chart option and filling in the figures you want to show, lots of book cover pictures from my computer, a logo, and a post-it note made from one of the shapes in the shape option--just love those curled edges. I then used the fill option to color the shape yellow.

Insert a text box into the shape and hey presto, you have a notelet. Again these can be expanded to fill the whole space if required.

Mini warning. Best rotate your shape into position before adding text. I had loads of upside down and sideways text before it dawned on me what I was doing wrong!

When happy, save your file as a jpeg and you can insert it into your website and promo material.

The finished slide.





 Anne Duguid is a senior content editor with MuseItUp Publishing and   her New Year's Resolution is to pass on helpful writing,editing and publishing tips at Slow and Steady Writers far more regularly than she managed in 2012.




Create a Unique Opt-in Button Webinar


Writers on the Move finally has a new webinar scheduled for this month: Create a Unique Opt-in Button – Have it Link to Your Opt-in Landing Page.

It’s set for Friday, January 25, 2013, at 4PM EST (U.S.). It’ll be around 30 minutes, maybe less, so it won’t take much time out of your busy schedules. If you're on live and time allows, we learn some of PowerPoints button-making features together.

It's a clever little button that will make you look like a pro. You can use in your sidebar or anywhere else you can link a JPG. And, it's done with PowerPoint!

TO REGISTER GO TO: http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=E952DE88884F3E

I’m hoping to record it. If you’re not registered you won’t have access to the replay.

The image above is a quickly made rough opt-in button. If the image had link capabilities I could link it to the landing page of my choice. It's pretty cool! The 'how to' information was courtesy of an article at HubSpot.com.

You can check out the complete details for the webinar at: http://www.writersonthemove.com/p/workshops.html

Hope to ‘see’ you there!

PLEASE SHARE THIS EVENT.

Karen Cioffi

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