- [Instructor] As we start to add more and more objects
to our slide we may have to arrange them so that some
are in front of or behind another.
Now this is called layering.
And so let's go ahead and go down to the bottom
of our presentation.
And we're going to insert a new blank slide.
Now I'm going to start off with some texts.
I'm going to insert a text box.
And I'm going to type in the word Africa.
And then position that over to the left.
Insert another text box.
Let's call that Americas.
Position that towards the middle.
And then one more
over here on the right and we'll call that Asia.
Now that I have this, I want to illustrate it graphically.
And I can do this using icons.
So let's select the insert ribbon.
And then here you see we have icons.
If I click on this,
you'll see that we get a lot of very nice graphical icons.
Now this menu is the same as the images.
So if you wanted to switch over to images,
you could certainly do that.
But we're going to work with icons.
And you could see that we also have a number
of different categories and we can search it.
Now I have a couple down here.
Basically planet earth and this one shows the Americas.
This one shows Asia and this one shows Africa.
So select all of those and then just hit insert.
Now these come in as images and we can hold down the shift
key and drag to make them as big or little as we want.
So now that I have these, I can position it.
So there is Africa,
there's Asia
and there's the Americas.
Now these icons can be rescale,
but they also can change colors.
So if I select one, you'll see we get the format menu here.
And if I wanted to I could change it to a different color.
You do the same for this one
and for this one.
Now if we want to make these pop a little bit more,
we might want to make something that surrounds them.
So let's go ahead and draw a shape.
So from the shapes menu,
I'm just going to go ahead and select rounded rectangle.
And then left click and drag over that first icon.
Now you'll notice that I can see through it,
but as soon as I let go, it disappears.
And that's because this graphic is in front of the icon.
Now we can arrange this in one of two places.
If I go to my home menu, you'll see we have a range
and we can send to back.
Now another way to do that is to right click over it.
And again, we have bring to front and send to back.
So if I bring it to the front,
it brings it to the top of the stack.
Send it to back,
it puts it behind.
So all I have to do is select this and align it
and I can hop over to format to change the color.
I'm going to make this kind of a light gray.
In fact, I'm going to do shape fill
and let's make it a fairly light gray.
So now that I have this, I can just copy and paste it.
So I'm going to go ahead and select that rounded rectangle,
hit copy, control C and then control V for paste.
Move that over.
Paste again, control V
and then move that over.
So I can select both of these rounded rectangles,
right click,
send to back.
And now I can arrange them exactly the way that I want.
So layering allows you to move things
in front of or behind another object.