Creating Infographics and

Creative Designs using

Powerpoint Presentation
Why Use Infographics?
Why Use Infographics?
Infographics allow you to present
information in a succinct and efficient
manner. If you’ve got information, you can
turn it into an infographic. You just need to
have a plan in place on how you’re going to
lay out your information into something that
can be easily consumed by your audience.
How To Make An Infographic In PowerPoint
• There’s no standard design or even sizes for
infographics. Plain and simple, you’re only
limited by your creativity and imagination.
But, for starters, the first thing normally
have to do when making an infographic in
PowerPoint is to resize the slides to a size
commonly used for infographics.
How To Resize Your Slides For
Your Infographic
1. Go to Design > Slide Size > Custom Slide Size.
2. In the Slide Size dialog box that pops-up, select
Custom in the drop-down for Slides sized for. Then
type in the width and height (in inches) and select
the orientation (portrait or landscape). Normally for
infographics, the orientation used is portrait.
How To Format The Background
For Your Infographic
Your infographic can retain its
original white background. But if
you’d like to add some color and
style, you should consider changing
the background to something that
will catch the eye of your intended
audience.
To change the background, right click on a blank spot on your
infographic slide and select Format Background. The Format
Background pane will then appear on your screen.
You can decide whether you want to use a
solid fill, a gradient fill, a picture or
texture fill, or a pattern fill. Choose the
most appropriate background that’s
going to fit in with the infographic as well
as the message you’re trying to convey to
your audience.
How To Use SmartArt For Your
PowerPoint Infographic
• You can easily use custom shapes and
vector graphics, but for beginners,
SmartArt is one of the easiest ways to
get started with an infographic on
PowerPoint as it provides responsive
graphics (there’s a reason it’s called
SmartArt).
Go to Insert > SmartArt and choose a graphic that will look good for
your infographic. Hit OK when you’re done choosing.
To format and design your SmartArt, simply click on the graphic first so that
the SmartArt Tools pane will appear. Choose from either the Design or Format
tab.

Play around with the different options until you get your
infographic design just right.
More Tips On How To Create And
Design Infographics In PowerPoint
Get inspiration from other outstanding
infographics.
• You can get plenty of ideas by browsing sites like
Pinterest, Visual.ly, or even Google Images. See what
your competitors are doing and check if you can do a
much better infographic.
Keep it focused
• Don’t talk about everything in your
infographic. Rather, you should only focus
on one topic. If your topic has a lot of sub-
topics, then you can try using only the main
points so as not to put too much
information on your infographic.
Keep it simple
• If you keep your infographic focused,
then it’s easier to keep it simple as well.
You don’t need to worry about
overloading your audience with too
much information. Likewise, use simple
colors and a simple layout. Don’t try to
overcomplicate things.
Think of an attention-grabbing headline.
• Your headline should accurately
describe what your infographic is all
about. You don’t have to make it
clickbait-y, but if it gets you more
views, then I don’t see any problem
with it.
Make sure your story flows.
• You don’t want your audience to get lost
in your infographic. Having a storyline
or a timeline in place is great, so your
audience knows the sequence of your
story.
Thank you!