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The Callouts in PowerPoint you will learn to create:
The graphic is useful to represent any related information like:
- Stages in a process and their explanations
- Parts of a product and their features
- Different regions and their performances
- Five things to review or remember etc.
Once you learn the method to create the diagram, you can add or remove components from the graphic to suit your specific needs. Let us learn the steps to create the graphic.
Step 1: Create the basic layout
Go to auto shapes menu and pick the ‘rounded rectangle tool’ to create the components. Create one shape and make multiple copies to ensure consistency in the shapes. To distribute the components equally, select all the components and go to Arrange -> Distribute -> Distribute vertically. The result will be as follows:
Step 2: Color the components and the callout area
The next step is to fill the components with different colors for easy distinction. Ensure that you remove the outline for all the shapes.
Now, all that is left is to create as many copies of the slide as there are components. When you want to talk about the first component, match the shape fill of the callouts area with the color of the component as shown below:
Step 3: Add the finishing touches
When you add relevant text, the slide should look like this:
Smarter option for business presenters:
It takes a lot of time and effort to create professional looking graphics and diagrams. Most business presenters don’t have the time to create such high quality graphics for themselves. That is why we came up with our ready to use PowerPoint templates packs.
Here are some example headlines and text related examples taken from PowerPoint Graphics and Concepts CEO Pack 2.
3 Colorful callouts text boxes with callouts from PowerPoint Graphics and Concepts CEO Pack 2:
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