That’s why we’ve created ten fully customizable templates that will give you
the inspiration and foundation you need to build your own infographics
right in PowerPoint. But first, let’s dive into some tools you can use to
customize these templates.
The Essential
PowerPoint Tools & Elements
By learning to use the three key
elements of PowerPoint – text,
picture, and shape – you can
create high-quality infographics.
Throughout this template, you’ll
learn a number of ways to use
these three elements to create
your graphics.
Fill
The fill of an object or text will
determine the primary color of
that object or text. For example,
the fill of this box is dark purple.
While there are three essential
elements, there are four essential
tools that you will be using to
design your infographics: fill,
line, effects, styles. These four
elements will help build your
color scheme, shape style, and
font styles.
Line
The line of an object will
determine the color of the outline
surrounding an object. The line of
this box is dotted yellow. You can
use the line of an object to make it
stand out among colored
backgrounds or give it a border.
8x
this circle!
Highlight a stat in this circle!
e this text box to provide a nugget of
w information or to describe the data
own above (or below).
50%
Here’s another space for a stat!
42x
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Here’s another space for a stat!
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WRITE A SECTION HEADER HERE
Are you sure?
Yes
No
How about this one?
Yes
Do you want to
do that thing?
Yes
No
No
Did you know?
94% of people
n the US wish they could live
in a tree house.
Sharing is caring.
86% of trees
like to share with their
friends.
Stand tall.
The tallest tree
in the world is
one million feet tall. This stat
definitely not real. Don’t get
your hopes up.
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Placeholder
This is placeholder text. Write something interesting here!
2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
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This is placeholder text. Write something Use this text box to give
some more context
about the data you’re
displaying. How is it
helping to drive home
your main point(s)? Is
there anything confusing
that needs to be
explained
in
more
detail?
Use the line graph below to compare values over time.
Like pie charts, these doughnut charts are great for showing parts of a whole.
from an assortment of shapes, it
can help to “group” those shapes
when you need to resize or move
them around your infographic.
BAR GRAPHICS CAN BE EASILY MADE
Learn to use a variety of shapes
to create interesting graphs,
charts, and other visualizations
to show off your data points.
You can do this by right clicking the
object above, navigate to
“Grouping,” and click “Ungroup” to
break this object into its individual
shapes. To regroup it, just highlight
all the pieces, right click, and
choose “Group” from the menu.
Hold the Shift key to select more
than one element at a time.
SHAPES THAT LOOK LIKE GRAPHS
ch of these icons was created from
ividual shapes and lines offered by
werPoint. Using a combination of basic
apes, rectangles, and lines, we were able
create some commonly used icons for
ographics.
n’t forget to hold the Shift key when
ecting multiple pieces of one icon. Once
u’ve selected each element of the icon,
u should “group” it so that you can more
sily move and scale the object.
You should start by choosing a base colo
We used white as the base color of our
icons and blue or red to create the detail
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LAPTOP OR MOBILE PHONE?
VS
The right image performed X% better than the left image.
ONE OR TWO?
VS
100
WILL SHARE THIS
SHAPES
TIME
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CAN BE USED TO CREATE GRAPHICS
YEARS UNTIL
PUPPIES
TIMELINES
TAKE OVER THE
VIDEOS
OF CATS
WORLD
STATEMENTS
2012
INBOUND MARKETERS
ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR
FINDING LIFE ON MARS
ATTENTION SPAN OF PEOPLE
9
YOU CAN’T
CATCH APPLES BY
THROWING ORANGES
2015
GRAPHS
10
RANDOM THOUGHTS
2014
2013
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7
6
5
4
3
2
1
2012
2013
400
BILLION STARS
IN THE MILKY WAY
2014
2015