- In this video, I'm gonna show you how you can create
a worksheet or a workbook for free
using a tool called Canva.
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Hey everyone, Megan here from MeganMinns.com
where I help busy entrepreneurs like you
save time running their business.
In today's video, I'm gonna show you a
step-by-step guide to how you can create a
workbook or a worksheet using a web application
called Canva.
There are all sorts of reasons why you may want
a worksheet or a workbook for your business.
Maybe you want to use it as a free opt-in,
to get people on your email lists,
or maybe you have a paid program or a webinar
where you want to give away a workbook.
Now don't worry, you don't have to be a designer
or have any design skills at all to use Canva.
And best of all, it's totally free.
So let's dig in.
So what you'll need to do first is go to Canva.com
and if you don't have an account already
go ahead and create one, it is free.
Once you're logged in to Canva you wanna go ahead
and click the create a design button.
And you're gonna see you have a bunch of
different templates to choose from.
I want you to go ahead and pick the US Letter option
underneath documents.
It's gonna open up a new tab for you
with a blank US Letter document in Canva.
Now Canva does have some beautiful templates
that you can choose from, so definitely give those a look
and see if you're interested in using any of those.
But I'm gonna show you how to create a very simple
worksheet without using any template
and it'll take just a few steps.
First things first, go ahead and go to text
and add your heading.
Once you've typed in the title of your worksheet
go ahead and move this up to the top area and centered.
Then let's go ahead and add some body text.
And I'm gonna make this align to the left
and stretch out but I want it to be centered.
And let's change this to left align.
And don't forget, you can always go in and change
whatever fonts you would like to use for your worksheets.
It's very simple to do this in Canva.
Now we want to have a little color block on the footer.
So go ahead and click shapes.
And we're just gonna choose this first square.
I want to make it full width
and I'm gonna take it all the way to the bottom
and I'm gonna shrink it to be however thick or thin I want.
I think I want mine to be about there.
Now I'm gonna go ahead and change it from white
to orange, that's one of my brand colors.
You could do black, pink, or choose any color that you want.
If you want to do a custom color just click this plus sign
and you can either enter in the hex code or
pick the color out from this color picker.
Let's use this black color, keep it simple.
And I want to add a copyright and my website to the bottom.
So I'm gonna go back to text and I'm gonna do
the body text again.
And I'll say my website.
And I've decided I actually want to change this font.
So let's do this.
And I feel like the text is
a little too close, so I'm gonna open text spacing
and make that a little bigger
and let's make the font a little smaller.
Again, you can make this look like
whatever your design aesthetic is.
So don't feel like it needs to look exactly like this.
Make it match your brand and your business.
There we go, I'm happy with that.
And now I want to go ahead and have the same thing
on the right side, and it'd just be
my copyright information.
So instead of re-doing that whole process
I have clicked what I already have,
and I'm just gonna click copy.
And now I have a copy of this.
So I'm gonna go ahead and make it align right.
And I'll just say...
And I love that Canva does these little guides here
so you can see it's perfectly centered
and aligning where I want it to, perfect.
Now you have the foundation for a worksheet.
So if you wanted to have this be a multiple-page workbook
all you would need to do is click this button
and now you have a second page.
And you could do this endless amounts of times as needed.
So there you go, now you know how to make a worksheet
and a workbook very quickly and easily within Canva.
And one more tip also is I would recommend that
you create this basic template just like I showed you,
this one-page template that has no specific details
except your website and your copyright,
and I would make this your template.
And that way whenever you actually want to do worksheets,
if you do these pretty often,
all you'll have to do is go back into your Canva,
look at all of your designs,
and it's loading the preview right now but here it is.
And any time I want to make a new worksheet
all I have to do is make a copy of it.
And there we go, I never have to go through the part
of recreating this ever again.
And when it comes time to download this
all you need to do is click download
and you have a few options here
if you want to download it as an image,
PDF for print or PDF standard.
I usually keep it at PDF standard.
Download, it'll take a few seconds to prepare your design
and in a matter of minutes you have your free worksheet.
Now you know how to create a free worksheet
or workbook using Canva.
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Now I want to hear from you.
How do you create free downloads for your business?
Do you use Canva or maybe another software?
Leave a comment below and let me know.
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I'll see you in the next one.
Create a worksheet to give away...
What am I saying again? (laughs)
That'll be my new signal.
Okay, choo choo choo.
Did I clap?
I'm gonna clap just in case.
I need someone here to help me record video.
Boom boom boom, we're done, we're done, we're done.