A substantial amount of information can be presented in an engaging and accessible way using infographics. Despite their seeming complexity, they are actually quite simple to make when using the correct tools.
You’ll discover how to create an infographic using Google Slides in this article. Let’s first examine some advantages of employing a template to make your infographic.
Benefits of Using the Google Docs Infographic
Following are some of the main advantages of the infographic:
- It enhances the capability of decision-making
- Building brand credibility does this.
- It increases the content’s visibility and boosts SEO.
- It provides us with any story, facts, or statistics in an approachable and engaging manner.
- It is crucial for creating high-quality backlinks.
- Infographics provide you the chance to express your creativity. These visual aids allow for the artistic and imaginative presentation of normally difficult-to-understand statistics, data, figures, and graphs.
- It breaks down extremely complex information into manageable chunks of knowledge.
How To Insert Infographics In Google Slides
The presentation you intend to work with should be opened. Additionally, open your selected infographic template. We will use puzzle diagrams in this instance.
- Make a fresh slide.
- Navigate to the puzzle infographic you prefer.
- If you wish to pick the design along with the text boxes, press outside the diagram while dragging. To copy it, press Ctrl + C (or Cmd + C on a Mac).
- Navigate to the slide where the infographic will be included.
- If you’re using a Mac, press Cmd + V instead of Ctrl + V. It was merely pasted by you!
- There is a small icon in the bottom right corner. Two choices will be presented if you click on it: Match destination formatting and Keep source formatting. The first will modify the fonts and colours to match the theme.
- Select the Match destination formatting to make it easier. Nevertheless, since it takes a little more work, we will show you how to change the colours and fonts manually in the sections that follow.
Changing a Diagram’s Colours
There is a possibility to manually alter the infographic’s colours if you like it but prefer to do so.
- To alter an element, double-click it.
- Fill colour is located on the toolbar.
- To ensure that the infographic blends in with the other slides, choose a colour from the theme.
- Additionally, the border colour is modifiable.
Text Insertion In Infographics
- Many of the diagrams come with editable text already included. You just need to click on it, remove the text, and start typing to do it.
- Use the typefaces included with the template whenever possible. Go to the last slides of the template and read the “Fonts & colours used” section there if you want to know which ones we used. You ought to employ those fonts.
- Go back to the infographic.
- Click on each text box while holding down the Ctrl or Cmd keys to change them all at once.
- Select a theme colour by clicking on Text colour if you wish to change the colour.
- Bold, Italics, and Underline are additional font properties that you can use.
- Hit Insert to add a new text box if necessary. After that, select the Text box button.
- Click and drag to make the text box.
- Edit to suit your liking.
How To Insert Icons In Diagrams
Using icons to express your ideas can be useful. Whilst we will briefly discuss them here, this guide contains more information on How to Add and Modify Icons
- Icons are used in most of our infographics. You can modify them if you aren’t pleased with them. There are several icons available in our resource slides; simply click on one and then hit Supr.
- Visit the collection of modifiable icons and pick the ones you prefer.
- Click on them (if you are choosing more than one, hold Ctrl or Cmd if you are using Mac). On a Mac, use Cmd + C or Ctrl + C.
- Enter the infographic’s slide and hit Ctrl + V (or Cmd + V on a Mac) to paste it.
- Ungroup an icon by selecting it with the right click menu.
- Utilize the tools for Fill and Border colours. Keep in mind to use the theme’s colours.
- Once you are finished, click regroup.