Designing Low-Content Books [Journals, Planners & Workbooks] in PowerPoint

Low-content books such as journals, planners, and workbooks are popular for good reason. Here are just a few of the benefits: 

• They’re much faster and easier to create than other books. 
• They can make nice companion books to your other books. For instance, you can create a workbook, planner, or journal that goes hand-in-hand with your other book(s). 
• You can create a low-content book for your own use, designed exactly the way you desire. 
• They make excellent gifts. 
• You can add them to your list of products or create an entire business based on low-content books 

The great news is, you don’t need any special or expensive software to create beautiful books. All you need is something you likely already have – PowerPoint.  

This course provides step-by-step instructions for using PowerPoint to create a variety of low-content book pages. Among other things you’ll learn: 

• How to properly set up your pages  
• A trick for adding margins to your PowerPoint slides 
• How to create a variety of page types such as lined pages, dot (bullet-style) journal pages, graph paper, and more 
• How to create a variety to your pages using elements such as borders, lines, shapes, images, and more 

By the end of this class you’ll be able to quickly and easily create unique low-content books in PowerPoint that you can gives as gifts, use for your own purposes, or make available to others in print or PDF form.   

• Intro
• Why Create Low-Content Books?
• Planning Your Low-Content Book
• Grayscale Vs. Color
• Trim Size and Bleed
• Create Custom Page Sizes
• Set Up Margins
• Create Lined Pages
• Create Manuscript Pages
• Create Dot Journal Pages
• Create Graph Paper
• Create Drawing Plus Text Pages
• Create Comic-Book-Style Pages
• Create Text-Heavy Pages
• Create Checklists
• Create Calendar Pages
• Adding Borders
• Creating Design Elements Using Shapes
• Adding Images
• Combining Elements to Create Unique Pages
• Front Matter
• Duplicating Pages and Sections
• Saving as a PDF
• Your Project