19. Better Slides with Clip Art, Pictures, and SmartArt

PowerPoint presentations are meant to tell a story. Whether you are providing an update on your company’s quarterly sales goals or sharing your latest vacation with your travel club, a presentation needs to succinctly and completely provide its intended information. Much of the information can be shared as text, but images and other graphics can greatly enhance the audience’s understanding of the presented material. Clip art, pictures, and SmartArt can also make slides more visually interesting and appealing.

In this chapter, we look at adding graphics such as clip art, pictures, and SmartArt to your PowerPoint slides. We will explore how graphics can serve as informational objects, such ...

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