Microsoft 365: PowerPoint Intermediate (2023): Images and Shapes

Name: Microsoft 365: PowerPoint Intermediate (2023): Images and Shapes
Author: Deanna Schmuck

Work with visuals on your slideshow presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint

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Hello. In this lesson, I will show you how to insert images and then work with some effects such as resizing and cropping. Microsoft PowerPoint 365 web allows us to insert and format images using the insert tab on the menu bar. And then once you have images inserted, they can be formatted. So let's take a look. So as you can see, I have PowerPoint open. I am going to go to slide two where we can insert an image. Let's go to insert on the menu bar and then pictures. Insert pictures. Let's look at our options here. If we were to go to this device to insert a picture from this device, we would do that if we had a picture already saved to our computer or save locally. If we were to go to OneDrive, that would be where we would go if we had a picture already saved in our OneDrive cloud storage. We can go to stock images, which are images available through Microsoft and they are safe to use if concerned at all about copyright. And then search on the web would be an option that would open up a Bing Internet search and you could search the web for pictures. Let's click on stock images. Okay, so as you can see under stock images, we have a search bar that we'll start with. I am going to type in the word flower and then we're going to get pictures of all sorts of different flowers. Notice we have some options up here, images, icons, cutouts. Let's look at what happens here. If I click on icons, I'm getting icon-like pictures of flowers. Cutout people. Nothing matches our search. Stickers, some more stickers, illustrations. Okay, but let's go back to images. I'm going to pick a picture of a flower and I'm going to click on it and then click insert. Once I have an image inserted and it is selected, you'll see that you have sizing handles that go around the picture. We can use these sizing handles to make this picture larger or smaller by clicking on a sizing handle and either dragging in or dragging out. When you use sizing handles, it is always best to use the four corners if you are concerned about keeping the picture in proportion. The four corners lock ratio. So for example, if I go to a middle one and not one of the four corners, if I start to pull that out, you could see the picture gets a little distorted. But if I use one of the four corners, it stays in proportion for us. Also, I want to show you the rotate handle right up here at the top. If I click on that rotate handle, I can rotate that picture in any direction that I would want to. Okay, next, let's look at our crop button. The crop button is a tool that we can use to cut out part of a picture. Kind of looks like a sizing handle now that we can use to sort of push in in the area that then gets grayed out is what gets deleted or removed from the picture. So we're cutting out or cropping out part of the picture. When I'm ready, I'm going to click crop again and it's going to cut out that picture. Next, let's look at picture styles. Again, we're staying under the picture tab on the menu toolbar. Looking at picture styles, I am going to select a style here. A lot of these make it look like the picture is in a frame. Okay, now we can play around with the picture border. If we want to change the color of that picture border, we can. There are other things that you can look at such as changing the line from solid to a dot. You can do some curved and free hand work here as well. Okay, I am going to move my picture over just a little bit because I'm going to insert another picture so that we can work with some alignment features. So to, again, to insert a picture, insert, picture, I'm going to use stock images. And again, I'm going to type flower. I am going to insert a picture and I can easily move my picture just by selecting it and dragging it. And then I just use my sizing handle to resize it. I'm going to select both pictures out once and how I'm going to do that is I'm going to click on one and then I'm going to hold down the control key on my keyboard and click on the other. And you can tell both pictures are selected because they both have the box and the sizing handles around them now. So we're going to go to the picture tab and we're going to look for this align button and I'm going to open this up so that we can look at some alignment options. We can either align these pictures to the slide itself or to themselves the selected objects. So let's look at align to slide and let's do align top and see what happens. So since we had a line to slide, they're going to both move up to the top, back up to the alignment button. And again, if I do align to middle, it's going to move this down to the middle of the slide. Now let's go back to the align button and this time let's switch it over to align selected objects. So we're no longer going to be aligning it to the slide itself, but now to each other. Okay, back in again, align selected objects. And now let's try align center and what has happened, they're centering themselves on top of each other. Let's look at another one. So again, still under align selected objects, let's do align right. Okay, did it move all the way over to the right hand side of the slide? No, but the objects themselves lined up so that they were even on the right side. So if you use the align button, just keep in mind that you have option to align to slide or to the selected objects. Stay tuned for the next lesson where I will show you how to insert and format various types of shapes. Thank you for watching.

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Course Description

Visual elements are a critical aspect of any PowerPoint presentation. These elements can include images, shapes, drawing tools, exploring slide background options, and more. These types of elements can help to enhance the message of the presentation, make the content more memorable as well as present a professional tone. PowerPoint provides many options for formatting visual elements. Bullets and numbers are also visual tools in Microsoft PowerPoint 365 Web that can be used for presenting information in a clear, concise, and organized way to your presentation viewers.

In these lessons, you will learn how to format and manipulate visual elements in PowerPoint presentations. You will explore images, objects, and shapes, as well as layering and grouping techniques, the format painter button, slide backgrounds options, and how to utilize the Draw tab on the Menu Bar. We will also demonstrate how to add bulleted and numbered lists to present information.

What You'll Learn

Insert and format images and shapes in PowerPoint presentations
Apply object layering by bringing objects backwards/forwards and grouping/ungrouping
Change a slide background color and insert a picture as a slide background
Use the Format Painter button and the Draw tab on the Menu Bar
Customize bulleted and numbered lists to present information clearly
Add effects to images and manipulate visual elements

Key Takeaways

Visual elements such as images, shapes, and drawing tools help enhance a presentation's message, make content more memorable, and present a professional tone.
PowerPoint provides many options for formatting visual elements, including layering and grouping techniques.
Bullets and numbers are visual tools in Microsoft PowerPoint 365 Web used to present information in a clear, concise, and organized way.
Slide background options allow changing the background color or inserting a picture as a slide background.
The Format Painter button and the Draw tab on the Menu Bar are tools for working with visual elements in PowerPoint.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this PowerPoint Intermediate course cover?

It covers formatting and manipulating visual elements in PowerPoint presentations, including images, objects, and shapes, layering and grouping techniques, the Format Painter button, slide background options, the Draw tab, and adding bulleted and numbered lists.

What skills will I gain from this course?

You will gain skills in Microsoft PowerPoint, PowerPoint Animation, Presentation Graphics, and Presentation Layer.

Which PowerPoint version is used in this course?

The lessons use Microsoft PowerPoint 365 Web.

What lessons are included in this course?

Lessons include Formatting Images and Adding Effects, Inserting and Formatting Shapes, Layering and Grouping Objects, Format Painter and Change Slide Background, Using the Draw Tab, and Customizing Bullets and Numbering.

How can visual elements help my presentation?

Visual elements such as images, shapes, and drawing tools can help enhance the message of the presentation, make the content more memorable, and present a professional tone.