Animating presentation icons
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:07 am
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Icons are a versatile tool for visual presentations, replacing boring bullets and playing an integral role in storytelling. Custom presentation icons are crucial to building a strong brand identity across presentations. But, if you don’t have access to a library of brand icons, they can seem out of reach.
Is it even possible to customise icons without quatar phone code special design skills? Absolutely. This blog post will show you how to source, create and animate custom presentation icons from within PowerPoint itself!
Sourcing presentation icons
Creating custom icon holders
How to tailor icons in PowerPoint
Sourcing presentation icons
Let’s start at the very beginning: finding decent icons. If you’re using Office 365, you’ll be able to access PowerPoint’s native presentation icons. We have a blog post describing how to insert PowerPoint icons in Office 365, so hop over there to see a video tutorial.
Here’s the CliffsNotes version:
Click the Insert tab
Select Icons
Choose icons and click Insert
Screenshot of PowerPoint's insert icons pop up window
PowerPoint’s icon library is extensive and frequently updated, so you’ll probably find what you’re looking for. Once you’ve inserted an icon, you can format it in a similar way to PowerPoint shapes, by changing the fill colour, line colour and graphic effects. You can also crop icons just like you can crop images.
Unfortunately, the icon library isn’t available in earlier versions of PowerPoint. However, there are plenty of free presentation icon resources online like The Noun Project – an icon library with over 2 million icons!
Icons are a versatile tool for visual presentations, replacing boring bullets and playing an integral role in storytelling. Custom presentation icons are crucial to building a strong brand identity across presentations. But, if you don’t have access to a library of brand icons, they can seem out of reach.
Is it even possible to customise icons without quatar phone code special design skills? Absolutely. This blog post will show you how to source, create and animate custom presentation icons from within PowerPoint itself!
Sourcing presentation icons
Creating custom icon holders
How to tailor icons in PowerPoint
Sourcing presentation icons
Let’s start at the very beginning: finding decent icons. If you’re using Office 365, you’ll be able to access PowerPoint’s native presentation icons. We have a blog post describing how to insert PowerPoint icons in Office 365, so hop over there to see a video tutorial.
Here’s the CliffsNotes version:
Click the Insert tab
Select Icons
Choose icons and click Insert
Screenshot of PowerPoint's insert icons pop up window
PowerPoint’s icon library is extensive and frequently updated, so you’ll probably find what you’re looking for. Once you’ve inserted an icon, you can format it in a similar way to PowerPoint shapes, by changing the fill colour, line colour and graphic effects. You can also crop icons just like you can crop images.
Unfortunately, the icon library isn’t available in earlier versions of PowerPoint. However, there are plenty of free presentation icon resources online like The Noun Project – an icon library with over 2 million icons!