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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.
Overview
Syllabus
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- 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