This in-built tool can help you to build stunning presentations even if you have no design skills at all. Here’s how to use PowerPoint Designer.
What is PowerPoint Designer?
PowerPoint Designer is a tool that can automatically generate professional slides for your presentations based on the text or images that you add to your slides. The intent is to allow you to create professional-looking designs without the need to spend a long time building each slide layout from scratch. It works by generating a list of design ideas that you can select for your presentation, based on the content of your slides. PowerPoint Designer will continue to make suggestions as you work on your slides, allowing you to quickly add suggested design ideas to your presentation to create a high-quality presentation much more easily. PowerPoint Designer is only available for Microsoft 365 subscribers. If you’re not a subscriber, you won’t see the Designer button in PowerPoint.
How to Turn on PowerPoint Designer
You can turn PowerPoint Designer on and off with a click of a button. You can also change the settings so that PowerPoint automatically shows design ideas as you’re working. To turn on PowerPoint Designer:
How to Create a Title Slide and Design Scheme
When you create a new presentation in PowerPoint, the first slide generated has the formatting of a title slide, with subsequent slides added to the presentation having a different format for general presentation content. When PowerPoint Designer is on, when you add text to your title slide, you will see suggestions for a professional title page design. If you select one of these designs, a similar design scheme will be applied to all subsequent slides so that they match the style of your title slide. This helps you to instantly create a presentation with a coherent look without having to edit any of the slide styles yourself. To create a title slide and design scheme in PowerPoint Designer:
How To Use Images in PowerPoint Designer
Once you have created a title page and design scheme for your presentation, you can start adding content to your slides. When you add images to your slides, PowerPoint Designer will offer ideas for ways to lay them out in a professional design. To use images in PowerPoint Designer:
How to Create Graphics from Text Using PowerPoint Designer
You can also get PowerPoint Designer to generate graphics for you based on the text that you add to a slide. For example, a bulleted list, a process, or a timeline can automatically be converted into a graphic image that makes your information easier to digest. To create graphics from text in PowerPoint Designer:
How to Add Illustrations in PowerPoint Designer
PowerPoint Designer can also suggest illustrations for your slides based on the text that you enter. These are PowerPoint icons that can be used to clearly show the theme of the slide that you’re creating. The designer may also suggest images to use in your slides. To add illustrations in PowerPoint Designer:
How to Turn Off PowerPoint Designer
If you decide that you no longer want the distraction of the PowerPoint Designer pane, you can turn it off in a couple of ways. To turn off PowerPoint Designer:
Creating Better Presentations With PowerPoint
Learning how to use PowerPoint Designer can help you to create high-quality professional presentations much quicker than you can without it. Although it’s not perfect, it’s a great way to get design ideas, and you still have the power to make changes to those designs if they’re not exactly what you want. There are other useful PowerPoint tips you can learn, such as hiding text in a PowerPoint slide until it’s clicked or using the PowerPoint Slide Master to change the look of your entire presentation. You can even convert a PowerPoint presentation to Google Slides once it’s done. Comment Name * Email *
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