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Understand object layering
From the course: PowerPoint 2019 Essential Training
Understand object layering
- [Instructor] You might want to come up with a slide like this, with nice graphics above text, but it's hard if you don't have a graphics department or access to a stock footage company website. We can do this with icons, and we can make good icons look even better by putting them behind shapes, and it's also a good way to learn the skill of object layering. So let's start by creating a completely blank slide. I'll click New Slide, and because it took the layout of the slide above it, I'm going to change it to a blank layout, and let's get started with some text. I'm going to click once to select this text box. I'll hold the Shift key, select this one, and this one. With all three text boxes selected, I'm going to hit Control C on my keyboard. I'll come over to this slide, and hit Control V. It's going to put that text right in. I am going to change the color of it. We'll leave the slide background white. Now let's start adding some icons. I'll change to the Insert Ribbon tab. Let's…
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Add images3m 50s
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Work with shapes3m 38s
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Format and add effects to objects3m 42s
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Align objects using the Arrange tool4m 26s
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Understand object layering4m 3s
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Group objects and use Format Painter4m 6s
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Remove the background from pictures2m 9s
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Merge and group shapes4m 5s
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Crop images to shapes2m 17s
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