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Designing a PowerPoint from scratch isnt ideal for most ma

Though some of us may have some air for design, its pretto look at the default introduction title slide, knowing you hto go before you have an engaging, interactive presentatio

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D(/)!ere going to walk you through best practices for creengaging visual content in a presentation. Then, you c

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Pick two di#erent fonts to use throughout yourpresentation& +ne for your headers, and one for yte't. =our header font should be bold and eye$catand your body te't font should be simple and easread. Eee how weve done it in this presentation

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6(>A< 4+)T)TThere are lots of ways to incorporate visual content

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tock Photos-aving engaging photos is crucial toyour lidehares success $$ but youneed to make sure you have e'clusiverights to using them.

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6ector (cons)otice that icon to the right (ts called a vectoricon& its basically an icon that can be stretched toany siGe without looking pi'elated. Pretty cool,huh

They are e'tremely useful for conveying abstractconcepts K think of things like email and social

media that you cant ;ust snap a picture of Eor youcan 1 but its not that eye$catchingF.

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PowerPoint +b;ectsAnother way to create icons and ob;ects is by using PowerPointsshapes. Though there arent a ton of options available, they canbe a great way to hack together engaging icons and ob;ects.

To spruce up your PowerPoint ob;ects, select the ob;ect youwant to beautify, then in the menu, click C2ormat, then Chapein the drop down menu. A whole slew of options will appearso you can customiGe your ob;ect&

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creenshotsAnd of course, if you want to includeany images of software or websites,youll want to incorporate them intoyour presentations. =oull take ascreenshot outside of PowerPoint Eon aP4, push the CPrint creen buttonO on

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LP+*T T+ AD+% PD2(f you are making a clickable aspect,

you will already have done this step, soyou can skip to the ne't slide.

(f you dont have links in yourpresentation, youll need to make sureyou e'port your PowerPoint to PD2Eideally in Adobe AcrobatF. This way,make sure the Quality and designs arepreserved once uploading tolidehare.

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