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Designing Low-Content Books [Journals, Planners & Workbooks] in PowerPoint

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Overview

Low-content books such as journals, planners, and workbooks are popular for good reason. Here are just a few of the benefits: 

  • They’re much faster and easier to create than other books. 
  • They can make nice companion books to your other books. For instance, you can create a workbook, planner, or journal that goes hand-in-hand with your other book(s). 
  • You can create a low-content book for your own use, designed exactly the way you desire. 
  • They make excellent gifts. 
  • You can add them to your list of products or create an entire business based on low-content books 

The great news is, you don’t need any special or expensive software to create beautiful books. All you need is something you likely already have – PowerPoint.  

This course provides step-by-step instructions for using PowerPoint to create a variety of low-content book pages. Among other things you’ll learn: 

  • How to properly set up your pages  
  • A trick for adding margins to your PowerPoint slides 
  • How to create a variety of page types such as lined pages, dot (bullet-style) journal pages, graph paper, and more 
  • How to create a variety to your pages using elements such as borders, lines, shapes, images, and more 

By the end of this class you’ll be able to quickly and easily create unique low-content books in PowerPoint that you can gives as gifts, use for your own purposes, or make available to others in print or PDF form.   

Syllabus

  • Intro
  • Why Create Low-Content Books?
  • Planning Your Low-Content Book
  • Grayscale Vs. Color
  • Trim Size and Bleed
  • Create Custom Page Sizes
  • Set Up Margins
  • Create Lined Pages
  • Create Manuscript Pages
  • Create Dot Journal Pages
  • Create Graph Paper
  • Create Drawing Plus Text Pages
  • Create Comic-Book-Style Pages
  • Create Text-Heavy Pages
  • Create Checklists
  • Create Calendar Pages
  • Adding Borders
  • Creating Design Elements Using Shapes
  • Adding Images
  • Combining Elements to Create Unique Pages
  • Front Matter
  • Duplicating Pages and Sections
  • Saving as a PDF
  • Your Project

Taught by

Rebecca Livermore

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