Animated PowerPoint Slide Design Tutorial

Summary

The tutorial demonstrates how to build a four-part infographic slide in PowerPoint and animate each section into place. The presenter creates the design from shapes and text, adds shadows, inserts infographic elements, and applies motion-path animations.

Main Steps

Create the Slide Background and Base Shape

1. Start with a blank slide and set its background color using the Design options.
2. Draw a rectangle across the slide, choose its fill color, and remove its outline.
3. Add a smaller rounded-corner rectangle on top. Adjust its roundness, rotate it, and position it in the center of the larger rectangle.

Make the Four Labeled Panels

1. Place a text box over the smaller rectangle and enter a letter.
2. Set the font to Dagger Square, increase the size to 48 pt, adjust the text color, and center it.
3. Group the text and its shape.
4. Duplicate the grouped panel three times using Ctrl+Shift-drag, changing the colors and letters to create four variations.
5. Align the smaller shapes and group each shape-and-letter pair separately.

Add Shadows

1. Apply the Offset Right shadow preset to each group.
2. Set the transparency to 49%, blur to 20 pt, and distance to 7 pt. The presenter also specifies a 0° angle for the first panel.
3. Move the four groups toward the left side of the slide.

Add the Infographic Elements

The presenter copies and pastes pre-made infographic elements rather than demonstrating how to create them. Position one alongside each panel, group the relevant objects, and use Send to Back or Send Backward to adjust their stacking order. Arrange all four groups on the left side of the slide.

Animate the Panels

1. Add a Lines motion-path animation to each of the four elements.
2. Set the path direction to the right and drag the endpoint to the desired position.
3. Set each animation’s duration to 1.25 seconds.

Finish the Slide

Copy text boxes from a previous slide and paste them into the current slide.

Speakers and Sources

• Tutorial presenter/narrator: Unnamed in the subtitles; the video is associated with PowerPoint School.
• Other speakers: None identified.