There are three quick design tips you can use to make this significantly better. But sadly, a typical slide that’s abusing audiences all over the world. It seems straightforward, but with icons, you can have a big impact on your slides. And other than these few categorization quirks, there’s nothing really new.
You can also convert your icon into PowerPoint shapes, but as the majority of PowerPoint icons in the library are either a single shape, or possibly two, there’s not much advantage to doing so. And you can crop graphics, like you can with images (but not with shapes). Interestingly (to me at least) PowerPoint seems to be treating icons as a mix of standard shapes (things like changing the fill colours and line colours, and altering the graphic effects), but also images, as there is an option to change the graphic for another one in the library or another file, just like you can with pictures. Mostly, it’s the same formatting choices that you have for any PowerPoint shape, with colours, and effects. Sadly, there’s not actually much to get excited about. Once you’ve chosen your icon, rather excitingly, a new tab appears! I do love a new tab. So you’ll probably find something useful in there. The list of icons is fairly extensive, with categories of icons for people, technology and electronics, communication, business, analytics, commerce, education, arts, celebration, faces, signs and symbols, arrows, interface, nature and outdoors, animals, food and drinks, weather and seasons, location, vehicles, buildings, sports, security and justice, medical, tools and building, home, and apparel. Click that and you’ll be shown a whole load of icons that you can choose from. How does it work? Well, head on over to the Insert tab on the ribbon where you’ll now find the Icons button, between Shapes and 3D Models. Watch the video below for a detailed how-to, or read the article below for more hints and tips! But when used correctly, icons are great to help you create clear, well designed slides. You could think of it as ClipArt 2: The Icon Rises, I suppose, as there’s potential for this to become the fodder for badly designed slides with loads of things thrown in there.
Powerpoint stock icons update#
This update features icons, with a selection of PowerPoint icons for presentations now built into PowerPoint itself. Sometimes it’s small things, but sometimes they’re pretty significant updates, and, as always with Microsoft, hidden away. Office 365 keeps updating and every few weeks we notice a few new features.
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