MONICA JAYASINGHE: As a teacher,
I live by my to do list and I love
to customize it on PowerPoint for exactly what I need.
Starting with a new PowerPoint presentation,
click on the "Design Tab".
We want to make this printable.
We're changing the page set up to
11 inches by 8.5 inches.
Let's start by inserting a text box.
Pick a nice bold font so that you can see it clearly.
Not only can we choose whatever font we want,
but we can also make the size a lot bigger.
This font size is set to 80.
If you have a color palette that you love,
you can actually color match
exactly by using the little eye dropper tool.
Click on the little "A" and then choose more colors.
That will bring up an eye dropper tool.
Next, let's duplicate our text box.
Right click, "Format Shape".
Now click on "Text Options".
Here we're changing the outline to
black and no color fill.
It just gives it a nice look.
Heading back to the panel choose shapes.
We're adding this rectangle,
doing a white fill and a black outline.
You can change the weight of the outline under weight.
Let's insert another rectangle from shapes.
This is going to be a little header.
Again, just choosing white for
my fill and then a heavier weight for the border.
Clicking that small header,
we can now change the color
at the top where it says Shape Fill.
Heading back to shapes,
let's choose a circle.
We can make the circle white on the inside
with the shape fill and then a black outline.
As you can see, there's so many ways to use shapes,
which is so fun.
Here we're just adding a line
and you could change the width
again and whatever color you want it to be.
Looks like we're ready to group these together.
Hold down the Shift button
while choosing your two shapes.
Then right click and choose "Group".
This is going to make it easy to duplicate,
which is just Command D. Let's drag
the mouse over all these shapes so we can save some time.
Right click and choose "Group".
Then we're going to hit command
D. If you want to customize more,
click on those little headers and
you can go back and change the colors.
Let's insert another text box so we
can type and make these a little more personal.
Since this is my teacher to do list,
there's always something to purchase, to organize.
The goal is to make this work for you.
Going back into our shapes, inserting another rectangle.
Again, you can customize this how you want it.
I suggest keeping the weight the same,
just so it all matches.
I always like to leave a spot for important reminders.
Heading back to the top panel,
click on "Insert" and look for icons.
These icon images are so fun.
Let's add an e-mail one.
What I love about these is you can
change the color to anything you want.
Let's use a little car to
remind us of all the errands we got to do.
Now, just adding in a phone icon
as a reminder to make some calls.
Final step, adding in one more rectangle.
Choosing no fill and picking
a color that matches for a nice border.
There you have it, a printable to do
list made effortlessly with PowerPoint.