So you've just been handed a PDF file of some slides that are completely unbranded and it's
your job now to convert them into a beautiful set of PowerPoint slides
which are totally on brand. Oh and by the way you need to do that by the end of the day! As a former
PA that would have been my worst nightmare. But not anymore because I'm going to show you how to
easily convert a PDF file to a set of PowerPoint slides in under two minutes using just one
free tool. Not only that I'm going to show you how to add your own fonts and colours so
that the slides match your own brand's visual style before downloading them to PowerPoint.
Welcome and welcome back to my channel my name is Nicky Pasquier, I'm a Canva Expert and I
help small businesses and startups successfully market their brands online using the exact same
strategies that I use. So if this is something that interests you, you might want to consider
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miss out on any new videos. Okay I'm dying to get started so if you wouldn't mind follow me over to
my Canva desktop. So first things first I'm going to start off with step one, I'm going to show you
how to upload your PDF file to Canva. So starting off on your Canva homepage you're going to go to
the top right hand corner of your screen and click on this purple button 'Create a Design'.
And that will bring up a quick menu of suggested templates but we're going to ignore that because
we're going to go right down to the bottom and then click on 'Import File'. Click on it and now
find the PDF file from your laptop or PC. And this is mine, my PDF so I'm going to select it,
click Open and I'm working on a Mac by the way so your screen might look slightly different.
Whilst your PDF file is importing to Canva you'll be taken to 'Your Projects' which is in the left
hand side column right here. And your PDF will be uploaded to the 'Designs' tab. Now don't worry
because your projects will look very different from mine because I've created lots of folders
but I promise you you will find your uploaded PDF right here. And this is mine and that's
already uploaded so I'm going to click on it once to open it up into my Canva desktop.
Fabulous. First things first that looks really good I'm just going to minimise this bar
here so we've got a nice clean space and get rid of that. So as you can see this presentation has
got some very different fonts to my own fonts, I've got Montserrat, I've got Times New Roman
(does anybody use that now?!) So I'm going to show you how to quickly rebrand these slides before
downloading them to PowerPoint. And I'm going to start off by showing you how to rebrand your text.
So starting off with the header style click your cursor into the text box, I'm just going to resize
that slightly to give myself plenty of room, and now I'm going to change this text for my own brand
font. And this is the first of my 'Nicky Ninja tips'! What you're going to do with the text
box still selected is go up to the top left hand corner of your Canva toolbar and click
on the font pull down menu. At this point I do really recommend that you have a Brand Kit
set up properly. You will need Canva Pro for this but if you keep watching I'll give you a link to
a free 45-day upgrade to help you do that. So I'm going to scroll down until I find my own Brand Kit
and for the purpose of this tutorial I've created a mock-up brand kit called Mad Frog
Print on Demand! And underneath I can see that I have my two fonts already set up, so I have this
one as my header and this one as my sub-header. So I'm now going to click on the header style to
change the header in my presentation. And my heading now is completely on brand.
So that's one header changed but obviously if you have 25 slides to edit you don't want
to go through this process for every single slide, so here's what you might want to do.
Go right down to the bottom of this left hand side column and you'll see a purple button that says
'Change All' and it's inviting me to change all instances of Montserat to my brand header font.
Be really careful though before you do click on Change All because it really will change ALL
instances of one font for another throughout your entire document. Once you are sure just click on
Change All, and I can now see if I click on the little thumbnail images of each slide
that each header throughout my document has been changed. You might need to make some
little adjustments because it's not a perfect solution but it really doesn't take very long.
Fantastic! And now I'm going to do exactly the same
with my sub-heading. I'm going to select the text box, go up to the text pull down menu
find my brand fonts, click on my subheading font style and then I'm going to go right down to the
bottom and I want to change all instances of this Times New Roman to my brand font.
If I just check on the other slides in my document I can see that all sub-headings have been changed
to the correct font style. I'm just going to adjust them slightly. Fabulous. By the way if
you're enjoying this tutorial so far please do give it a thumbs-up because it will help YouTube
recommend it to other people as well. Now just as you can change all instances of one
font for another in Canva you can do exactly the same with colours. So let me just click on
this slide here to open it up. And I really don't like this grey colour so I'm going to change it
for one of my own brand colours. So let me just click on this grey photo frame to select it,
I'm going to go to the top left hand corner of my Canva toolbar and click on the colour tab and
that brings up the colour menu. And just as I had with text I have my own brand colours right here.
So I think I'm going to swap the grey colour with my brand yellow. So I'm going to click on
the yellow thumbnail and again if I go right down to the bottom of the colour column I've got this
Change All button which is inviting me to change all instances of this rather
dull grey with my brand yellow. And again be very careful before you click on this button
because it really will swap all instances of one colour for another, and that includes text
as well. I'm quite happy with that so I'm going to go ahead and click on Change All.
And I can see that all instances of grey throughout my document have now been changed.
Now there's just one last thing I need to do before I download my slides to PowerPoint,
and if I click on the final slide I want to copy and paste this lovely gradient
background to the first slide as well. So all I need to do is make sure I've selected
the gradient background with my cursor and I'm going to use my Mac shortcut key to copy it,
click on the first thumbnail and then paste it directly into my slide.
It's pasted over the top of all my other elements so all I need to do to change that is go to the
top right hand corner of my Canva toolbar and click on 'Position' and then select 'To
the Back'. And that's all done. So the final step now is to download my Canva slides to PowerPoint.
All I need to do is go to the 'Share' button in the top right hand corner of my Canva toolbar
and click on it, and this layout has recently changed so what I need to do now is go to the
bottom of this menu and click on the 'More' tab and scroll down until I find the 'Save' section.
And here I can see the Microsoft PowerPoint little thumbnail. And I'm going to click on it, click
on this little downward arrow to select the pages you want to download I'm going to select them all.
Click on 'Done' and then 'Download' and Canva will magically transport your Canva slides over
to PowerPoint. And here is my beautiful PowerPoint slide deck. Now previously you would have had
to have used my Nicky Ninja tip to export to PowerPoint but as you can see all my fonts and
graphics have been exported absolutely perfectly so that's one less step you need to take.
For the final step type this URL into your browsers to get a free
exclusive 45-day upgrade to Canva Pro. I will also leave the link underneath this video if
you'd like to find out how to convert a PDF file to Word; I will leave a link for you right here.
And I'll also leave a link to my entire playlist of Canva presentation tips and tricks right here.
Thank you so much for watching and for all your support as always; I will see you next time.