I thought using infographics would be a great way for me to add something different to my blog, but I didn't know how to get started. I saw a post about using PowerPoint and gave it a shot. It took less than 30 minutes.

1. By Kimberly Gauthier
Creating Infographics with MS
PowerPoint

2. Start with a new slide and change slide
orientation to Portrait

3. Change the size of the slide to better fit in a
blog post – I use 6” wide, 11 or 12 “ height

4. Change the size of the slide to better fit in a
blog post – I use 6” wide, 11 or 12 “ height

5. Start creating your infographic – I use the
Drawing section and worry about design later

6. The shapes in Design accept text, I just double
click and start typing, and add my own images

7. Now have fun choosing a cool Design – just
scroll through each one until one works for you

8. When you find your Design, save as a PDF –
choose Minimum Size for online publishing

9. When the PDF saves, it’ll open in a new
window; change view to what you see below

10. And then…
 Change the size so that you can see the entire
infographic on one page and then Print Screen
 Open MS Paint and paste the screen print there
 Crop the image to the infographic and rotate view
to portrait
 Save as your new image and upload to your site.

11. I created three infographics this weekend…each
took less than 30 minutes

12. Happy Designing!!!