A visually good presentation is...

I believe that presentation is a kind of art. Yes, we make it scripted, but at least we make - we just not taking others’ template and fill in the text here and there, that’s not how a visually good presentation made.

A visually good presentation is designed right from the scratch - putting texts here and there, setting background, inserting shapes and artworks. It takes too much time? I don’t think so, designing a presentation right from the scratch takes mostly 4 hours.

And now, I will tell you only 3 tricks on PowerPoint to design a presentation from scratch.

1. First trick: Text Box

First, we’ll learn how to create a text box. Usually, when we open PowerPoint, we’ve already seen two text boxes: the title and the content text box. But, now we can create it manually.

First, delete all already-made text boxes, so we get crystal clear white background. Then, click on the insert tab, click on text box, and please create the text box by dragging (dragging will determines the size of the text box).

Second, type in the texts you want to be displayed. Edit its appearance using font stylizing section (red box).

Third, create another text box with same method, the point here is that you can create as much text box as you want - all with different font styles and sizes.

2. Second trick: Formatting Background

To format your slide’s background, right click on your slide, and click “format background”. You can choose four types of background fillings there. NOTE: if you want to do a picture fill on your background, please use another method below.


Another way to stylize your background: using image(s)

In order to do this, first open “insert” tab. Then choose “picture”, and choose an image you want, images with higher resolution are better. Then click “insert” or “okay”.

You can resize and move the image freely - even if the image is out of the slide, just like I did:
 

3. Third trick: Using Shape(s)

To insert a shape, click “insert” tab, and click “shapes”, then choose one from the drop-down list.

Then stylize the shape, click the shape first, then click “format”, and stylize the shape using the “shape styles” tab section (red box).

To add texts inside the shape, right click on the shape and click “edit text”. You can stylize the text by clicking “home” tab, then stylize the text using the font tab section (red box).

And we’re done!

That's it! There are endless possibilities you can try to make a visually great presentation - you can add text boxes, images, and shapes as much as you want, just use your creativity!

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