Make a boring presentation more fun

If you’ve never used desktop publishing programs like Microsoft Publisher, Corel Draw, or Adobe InDesign, you may not be familiar with using objects and layers to create documents for print or screen. Unlike popular programs like Word and Excel, PowerPoint’s entire design premise revolves around using objects to create your presentation.

Much like desktop publisher, each element in a PowerPoint presentation represents an object that can be positioned without disrupting other objects. These objects include text, images, videos, and any other elements present in your PowerPoint files. Because each object is its own element, you can layer objects to make your presentation look exactly the way you want. Read on to learn why and how to layer objects in a PowerPoint presentation.

There are two main reasons why you might want to stack objects in a PowerPoint presentation. First, stacking objects gives you the freedom to arrange your presentation in any layout you want. Instead of working linearly like you would in a word processor, you can place and stack objects as much as you want.