How to draw in PowerPoint slides

Visual impact is of key importance in retaining the attention of users of any kind of material. When working on your presentations, you can enrich your slides with freehand drawings that emphasize importat points or provide a unique, personal touch. Read this guide to learn how to draw in presentations.

Why draw on slides

Drawing on presentations can serve multiple purposes, adding a layer of personalization, emphasis, and creativity that helps make content clearer and more engaging. Here are several reasons why drawing on presentations can be beneficial:

1. Emphasizing key points: Using tools like highlighters or colored strokes can catch the audience’s eye to critical areas of the slide, such as key terms, data points, or figures.

2. Providing context and clarity: Freehand drawings can clarify complex ideas through simple sketches or annotations. Flow charts, arrows, or even quick illustrations help explain processes or relationships that might be harder to convey through text alone.

3. Creative expression: Visual elements can break up the monotony of text-heavy slides and keep audiences visually engaged. Drawing tools allow for creative design, which can make presentations more enjoyable.

4. Supporting different learning styles: People process information in various ways, and visual learners, in particular, benefit from drawings or visual aids. By incorporating sketches, highlights, or diagrams, you can make your presentation more accessible to different audience members, or make it easier to remember when studying on your material.

How to draw in presentations

The draw feature is available in the most popular presentation editors. Today, we’ll see how to use this function in ONLYOFFICE Presentation Editor, which introduced the tool with latest version 8.2.

First of all, open your presentation. Then, navigate to Draw tab.

Select the highlighter or the pen, then adjust the tool’s size and color as you need.

Now, you can start drawing on the slide.

If you need to move the sketch, use the Selection Tool to pick an inscription, drawing, or highlight. Once selected, you can resize or delete the element to adjust it for your presentation.

Second thought? Select the eraser tool and delete sketches by simply clicking on them.

Now that you know how this tool works, all that’s left for you to do is to unleash your imagination and make your presentations unique and catchy!

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