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Remember the comics of our childhood? What would they be without speech bubbles? In comics, words were calls to action and speech bubbles (or speech balloons) put them so well. You never thought they obstructed the illustrations in any way. Speech bubbles turned into callouts when it came to business presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. They give context to what’s on the slide or a screenshot and help to turn a mundane graphic into something more interesting.
Speech bubbles and callouts have other uses too. Using them on memes is commonplace. It finds some interesting uses in classrooms too as I found on this webpage . And then, as my friend Yaara showed us – it can turn over a bad day too ! Through all this, I was surprised to know was the fact that speech bubbles are also available for sale. Now, why would you do that when there’s a perfectly viable solution lying in your computer that can do just that, and for free.
That is, provided you have Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft Word installed. The programs are themselves not usually free, but they are so commonly installed, that anything that comes out of there can be called as “free”.
Is Microsoft PowerPoint The Easiest Program To Create Speech Bubbles With?
There are many options open to an artist or the average Joe for creating speech bubbles. From Photoshop Custom Shapes to the free GIMP …from the simple Speechable and Superlame, to more advanced comic book creators , choices are plenty. Did you know that you can even put speech bubbles on videos?
But to answer the question in the headline above, I would go with a ‘yes’. We normally would turn to a photo editor or a third-party tool to do our speech bubbles, ignoring the power of Microsoft PowerPoint that’s just sitting there. PowerPoint gives us Shapes and a more creative ways to enhance those shapes into interesting callouts and speech bubbles than we can think up.
Start With a Clean Slate (Or a Blank Slide)
1. Use a blank PowerPoint slide as a canvas to insert your photo. Go to the Insert tab on the Ribbon and click on Picture .
2. From the same Insert tab, select the Shapes command. A drop-down menu will appear that gives you a variety of callout shapes. Select the one which you want to use.
3. Click, drag, and position the callout shape so that it is placed at the appropriate part of the image…and in the appropriate size you want it to be. Use the Text Box to insert your dialog or call to action.
4. You can also use Drawing Tools – Edit Shape feature to manipulate the basic shape into a wildly creative one by manipulating the wrap points around the speech bubble.
5. You can use the Drawing Tools to control the creation of your callout and speech bubbles. Alternatively, right-click on the callout shape and click on Format Shape . This is where you can apply your creativity to render the speech bubble with customized fills, transparency, line color, shadows, and even 3-D effects. The callouts should appear in front of the image. If they appear behind it, you can use the Bring to Front command from the right-click context menu to adjust the ordering.
6. Here is the final image of a callout created within the creative limits I possess. I like to set it to a transparency level sometimes to show some of the image beneath it (but not here in this image). But you can go with solid fills. Usually, the good old combo of black and white works best.
7. Select the textbox, the callout graphic and the photo (use CTRL+A). Right-click and use the context menu to use the Group command and thus group them together.
8. All that remains for you to do is right-click on the slide and save the entire image with the callout as an image file in one of the standard file-formats on view. JPEG is preferable if it’s a photo.
Putting Them to Use...
The PNG and GIF file formats allow you to create transparent and blank speech bubbles and then re-use them over any other image. For instance…you can create blank speech bubbles and keep them organized for future use in the Microsoft Clip Organizer and then insert them from Clip Art. Microsoft Clip Organizer can be found under Microsoft Office – Microsoft Office 2010 Tools .
You can take printouts and use them offline in interesting ways as illustrated through the first link in this article.
Multiple shapes can be combined in interesting ways in PowerPoint. You can use the Clip Organizer to keep and re-use them. Though you may not need it for creating basic speech bubbles, you can keep that in mind if the design needs call for it. Two shapes can be combined using the powerful Combine Shapes tool in one of four ways: Union, Combine, Subtract, or Intersect. Here’s the Microsoft How-to page for PowerPoint 2010 and 2013 . (Also, check out what's new in Microsoft Office 2013 )
Speech bubbles and callouts may seem very trivial in the grand scheme of things. But they have a surprising number of uses, especially in today’s engaged learning systems, and even for the fun of it, in quick internet memes. What do you think? Do you use speech bubbles anywhere? Which is your favored tool?
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Most useful tools in PPT while creating this 32 speech/thought bubbles set (freebie 09) were: union shapes, subtract shapes (you may find intersect option helpful as well), curve and freeform line. Every bubble is unique and you have plenty of possibilities how the bubble can look like: not only the classic round/rectangle or cloud shaped bubble, but also joint, heart or a bitten speech bubble may look fantastic and fit in to your project.
The other way to jazz your bubbles up is to set a picture, gradient or texture as a fill, change the classic outline, add default or custom shadows.
Check out this short video tutorial on YouTube , where I show hot to design 7 unique and great looking speech bubbles within 5 minutes.
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Free template for PowerPoint and Google Slides showcasing 21 speech balloons slide layouts. Modern and professional design. Great for business or personal use.
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Speech bubbles are widely used in presentations. For example, they can illustrate inspiring quotes or important ideas .
PowerPoint already offers a nice collection of ready-to-use simple speech bubble shapes: the callouts. You can find them under the “Insert” tab (Shapes).
But still, you need some designer skills to customize them and get a WOW! effect from your audience.
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This theme uses a bold flat design and a yellow + blue color theme (built-in palette). Speech balloon graphics are round styled. Almost cartoonish.
This template includes 21 ready-to-use slides . The format and styles (font, letter sizes, placeholders, colors) of each slide are already formatted (built in the slide master), optimized and then very easy to use .
More specifically, the PPTX/Google Slides document contains a selection of pre-made slides with various infographics – from general to more specific. For example, you can choose among layouts with silhouettes, timeline and process diagrams, a matrix or even SWOT analysis-related slides.
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Want to illustrate a comment, quote, or dialogue, or make an interesting creative timeline? Consider using stylish handwritten speech bubbles as a representation of various communication concepts in your presentation. Below we present six ideas for using a speech balloon on a slide.
[The graphics presented here is from Speech Balloons and Handwritten PPT Bubbles set . Click pictures to see details.]
Remember old-style comics with big white or yellow bubbles over the heroes’ heads? We’ve experimented a bit with this graphical concept, and designed a bunch of hand-drawn styled icons and you can see the result below.
Here are the six examples where you can use creative or flat bubbles:
- illustrate a discussion, chat, or thoughts
- highlighting the key point
- creating commentary notes on a slide
- using them in a timeline
- presenting survey opinions
- designing quotations
So let’s try using them on slides and see the result.
#1: Illustrating communication dialogues, chats, and thoughts
The classic case of using speech balloons. Use them if you want to show customers’ thoughts, people’s fears, or even your ideas.
Here’s how easily you can present your clients’ opinions.
#2: Highlighting the key point in a text
If there’s a big amount of information on the slide (which is better to avoid) and you want a particular idea to stand out, you can create a similar field for that. Looks creative and interesting from a design point of view.
#3: Using speech balloons as a note or a comment field
Adding notes to the presentation is not a brand-new idea. However what about using bubbles for that? That way you can outline key points or add any information you need.
#4: Showing the history of events on a timeline with comment bubbles
If you want to tell a story in your presentation, show it as a series of events in chronological order. A speech balloon will save place on the slide and nicely illustrate all milestones.
#5: Presenting a result of survey statistics by a bubble infographic
As poll surveys show people’s opinions about a product, survey, or company, the good idea is to make infographics. It is a proven technique, which helps people to catch information faster.
#6: Illustrating a famous quote to inspire your audience
Another way of using creative speech balloons is to present quotes. Somehow in, our heads these forms are associated with people’s thoughts so your audience will get your message right.
Use your imagination, and be creative with speech bubbles
To sum up, the usage of speech balloons is much wider, than illustrating a man talking: you can show a discussion or one’s thoughts; highlight the key point; put commentary notes on a slide; create a timeline; present survey opinions and show a quotation.
Do you have any other useful ideas for speech bubbles use in a presentation? Share in the comments 🙂
If you decided to apply such shapes to your PowerPoint, you can create them yourself or you can reuse our collection in your projects. All icons and usage examples above are from our infoDiagram PowerPoint Diagrams collection. It contains handwritten speech balloons and chat bubbles, which can be easily edited and added to other presentations.
What’s inside the Speech Balloon Handwritten Bubbles set?
The collection contains 36 various arrow vector shapes on 8 slides. You can choose colors to correspond with your brand, the color scheme, and the layout of your presentation, or create natural-looking icons with numerous colors. All symbols, charts, and diagrams are editable vector artwork so you can adjust them as needed, using standard PowerPoint tools. And they remain razor-sharp also if you resize them, unlike bitmap pictures.
The graphics collection consists of:
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- charcoal speech bubbles with gradient filling (13 clipart icons)
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- usage examples: milestones in a timeline, highlighting a key point in a text field , visualizing chat conversation
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PPT Productivity PowerPoint addin's Format Toolbar includes commonly used callouts so you can add callout shapes to PowerPoint slides in a single click. Why are callouts added to a presentation? Call out boxes or speech bubbles are typically used to highlight a point on a PowerPoint slide, or make an annotation. Callout boxes are used typically to highlight information.
Speech bubbles can be used to suggest speech or conversation, but can also be used in the same way as callouts. The rounded rectangular and rectangular speech bubble PowerPoint shapes are often used like callouts. There are seven different callout/ speech bubble shapes to choose from:
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This is another clipart with a chat expression that can be used in presentations with a custom textbox.
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This clipart can be easily customized from the developer’s website (see link given below). You can add your custom text in the given textboxes and generate a clipart image of a chalkboard with your added text.
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Doodle Speech Bubbles for PowerPoint and Google Slides
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Free doodle arrow process for PowerPoint and Google Slides. Drawing of three speech bubbles with swirly arrows. Editable graphics with icons and text placeholders.
Doodle Speech Bubbles
The doodle arrow process is part of our diagram doodle collection . As a matter of fact, we custom-designed each of them to perfectly suit your presentation needs. We hope you like them and that they will help you optimize your slides.
Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be composed of random and abstract lines, generally without ever lifting the drawing device from the paper, in which case it is usually called a “scribble”. — Source: Wikipedia
Do you remember the drawings you used to make on our notebooks in school? These are doodling. When used in graphic design, Doodles are fun sketchy graphics that will give your presentation a more informal, personalized, and handcrafted tone.
More specifically, this is a hand-drawn illustration of three horizontally-aligned speech bubbles (aka speaking bubbles or speech balloons). Also, swirly arrows pointing right connect each speech bubble to emphasize the relationship (these editable elements can be removed easily if not needed).
Finally, you can use it as a process or workflow. These sketchy speech balloons will also be perfect to present quotes or grouped lists of information.
Shapes are 100% editable : colors and sizes can be easily changed.
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Speech bubbles or balloons are sometimes referred to as text bubbles. They are labels that display words and emotions of a character in an illustration or depict a phrase about an illustration or text. In business, text bubbles are often referred to as “callouts” as they’re used to call attention to a specific point, word or sentence, or provide instructions in documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The method to create text bubbles is similar across Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It simply involves inserting a predefined bubble shape into your project and editing it as needed.
Select the “Insert” tab in your Microsoft Office application.
Click “Shapes” in the Illustrations section on the ribbon, and then locate the “Callouts” section near the end of the Shapes drop-down menu.
Select the type of text bubble you want to use, such as a “Rectangular Callout,” “Rounded Rectangular Callout,” “Oval Callout,” “Cloud Callout” or a “Line” callout option.
Position the crosshairs cursor, which appears when you select a callout, near the area where you want to create the text bubble shape.
Press the “Shift” key on your computer keyboard, and then click and drag the cursor to the right or left depending on the direction you want the bubble tail to point until the bubble is the size you want. Release the mouse key.
Roll your cursor over the bubble until it changes into the “Move” four arrows cursor, and then click and drag the text bubble to the position where you want it.
Align the tip of the tail to point at the text, illustration or section that you plan to talk about in the bubble.
Click inside the bubble and type your text. When you’re finished, reposition and edit the text the same way you would in a normal text box.
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- If you position a text bubble to overlap with text already on a page, the bubble will block the text. To make the bubble transparent so that the text shows through it, select the bubble shape so that the “Format” tab appears above the ribbon. Click the tab, locate the Shape Styles section, click “Shape Fill” and then select “No Fill.”
- To change the outline of the bubble to a different color or to a dashed outline, click “Shape Outline” in the Shape Styles section and select a color option, or roll your cursor over “Dashes” and select a line option.
- To narrow, widen, shorten or lengthen the bubble's tail, select the shape and then click and drag the yellow handle at the end of the tail as desired.
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Slides with speech bubbles are a standard graphic device for conveying dialogue or conversation from a represented character.
Where can we use these Speech bubble Templates?
A declaration, an outburst, or a conversational exchange can all be made inside the speech bubble. You can insert various words, phrases, or even entire paragraphs into the speech bubble templates to indicate what is being spoken.
How can I make Speech bubble Slides in a presentation?
By adding clipart or creating your visuals, you can add speech bubbles to PowerPoint. You may also choose the premium quality quick slides option to make your work smarter.
Who can use these Speech bubble Templates?
Presenters can write spoken words inside the speech bubble script template and utilize them to punctuate clear language, show them around an image of a tale character for kids to add inferred speech or use them to display analogs.
Why do we need to use the Speech bubble slides?
These slides are a fantastic approach to expressing one's ideas or thoughts in presentations. They can aid in the audience's understanding of the subject matter of your presentation or speech.
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How can I lock the tail / pointer / anchor of a callout shape in place when moving the text box?
I want to annotate an image on my slide with callout shapes (or "speech bubbles").
I place the shape, and position the tail to point to the area of interest on the image.
Then I start typing text, and usually have to resize/move the textbox. This, for whatever reason, also moves the tail/pointer around, making this process kind of unusable for me.
I there a way to move the textbox part of the callout shape without changing where it points to?
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I have this problem too. No one has understood the question. We want the tail to NOT move when we move the text part. Need to ANCHOR it on the page or to an object.
- crazy isn't it 😅 – Reto Höhener Commented Jul 9, 2020 at 8:21
Well, I haven't found a general solution so far and this is probably not the workflow you're looking for but you can do it like this:
- Right-click on the shape
- Select Format Shape
- Select Text Options
- Select either Do not Autofit or Shrink text to overflow
- The tail is still moved when I move the callout, even with this setting. – Reto Höhener Commented Feb 21, 2018 at 12:33
- @Zalumon I am sorry I missunderstood you. I thought you have trouble with longer texts changing the size of it. – leun4m Commented Feb 21, 2018 at 12:37
- @Zalumon I guess you know that already but you can move the tail dragging the yellow circle on it. – leun4m Commented Feb 21, 2018 at 12:41
So you can do it, click onto the bubble outline so the bubble highlights then click on the text then click on the outline of the bubble again and it moves but the pointer stays pointing :-)
- I don't get it. Care to provide a screenshot? – Reto Höhener Commented Nov 25, 2020 at 9:56
I think I got this.
Instead of using the "callout" shape, create a group which includes:
- Rectangle (with text in it)
- line snapped to the rectangle
- very small circle, snapped to the other side of the line
when you move the rectangle - the circle will stay in place with the other side of the line. when you move the circle - the line follows it without moving the rectangle
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Create your comic book in PowerPoint – Part 2
Planning on telling your buddies all the cool stuff you’ve done this summer? Spend a few hours converting your best photos to a comic book. The Summer of Twenty Thirteen. Get creative, writing all about your best adventures. A previous post gave you a good idea on how to get started on Creating your Comic Book in PowerPoint – Part 1 . Now, for a few more good tips and tricks. The screen grabs below are from PowerPoint 2010, which seems to be the most common version used out there. Not much different for the shoulder versions of 2007 and 2013.
1. Setting the stage
You must decide how you will be showing this amazing digital creation of yours. On a laptop? On a PC? On the tablet? On your cellphone? Or going all out and getting it printed and bound! Will it be horizontal or vertical pages. If you don’t know your device’s resolution, google “mobile device resolutions” and check the lists – width x height in pixels is what you will get. Then it would be a matter of converting these pixels to PowerPoint’s inches or millimetres*.
Page setup dialogue box in PowerPoint 2010
The above screen grab shows the new standard, 16:9 widescreen as well as the custom option. The portrait and landscape radio button for the top slides section can also be used to quickly change your layouts. For purposes of this article, I will choose to use 16:9, widescreen format. Amazing to view it full screen on the computer.
2. Speech bubble settings
PowerPoint has a slew of ready-made speech bubbles. Stretch them using the square handles, or scale them using the circle handles. That other yellow square is to stretch the poniter to the speaker of the words.
Standard speech bubbles found in PowerPoint
These standard speech bubbles sometimes need customizing to accommodate text properly, for text returns, line spacing, and textbox elbow room. For the line spacing, select the speech bubble, the go to the Home tab, and the Paragraph section, click on the line spacing icon, see below.
Line Spacing icon has more options than the standard ones in the pull down menu
Choose a Multiple of the automatic line spacing offered for your font size. Anywhere from .95 down to .70 Probably no lower than that as your letters will start to touch; the closer the letters the harder it is to read the paragraph. Do some testing to find out how far you can push it, if need be.
Adjust your line spacing inside the speech bubbles
Another way to customize the speech bubbles is to adjust the internal margins, preset buffers that can be a bit annoying sometimes. If you right-click on the bubble shape, select Format Shape, then almost last in the list select Text Box.
Adjust the internal margin on any shape to get a bit more elbow room
In this menu, you can adjust your vertical and horizontal alignment preferences, as well as that Internal Margin buffer. I usually bring it down to zero. I then insert soft returns where I think it most appropriate in the text. That would be SHIFT-enter, rather than ENTER. A soft return keeps the internal paragraph spacing the same. A hard (or regular) return uses the in-between paragraph spacing, which is usually a quite larger space.
A little bit higher in that list of options on the right, you have the Fill Colour, Line Colour, Line Style and Width.
3. Making your own custom speech bubbles
If you have a look at that last standard speech bubble in the second screen grab above, notice that it’s a combination of two shapes. The circle placed in front of the lightning bolt. That symbol is pretty much standard for someone speaking over a device of some kind, telephone, cellphone, ear bud, speaker… But if you look closely, the circle keeps its outline, even over the lightning bolt. Not really professional. Here’s the trick to make that bit of line disappear.
First thing to do is to activate some commands in PowerPoint. These are not visible by default, anywhere in the menus. Trust me, I looked.
- Activate the Quick Access Toolbar, and move it below the series of main menus. Makes it easier to access.
Move the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) to below the Ribbon of menus
- Way on the right end, a small pull down arrow lets you customize this QAT horizontal space with any icons you use often, under More Commands. Or you can use the above Customize Quick Access Toolbar option. In our case, look for the following commands: Shape Union, Shape Combine, Shape Intersect, or Shape Subtract. They are not found under “Popular Commands”, you will have to change the top option “Choose Commands From:” from Popular Commands to “All Commands”
We need the Shape Union Command to weld the two shapes together
- Now we have easy access to the commands we need.
Back to the task at hand, now that we have the proper tools. Select both shapes, the oval and the lightning bolt. Click on your new icon, Shape Union.
Select your shapes and click on the Shape Union command
Presto-zappo-magic, the shapes are welded together. Much more professional! In this case, you will have to use a separate text box, with no fill and no outline, placed directly above your new shape, in order to insert your text.
Shape Union is the command we need to customize our speech bubbles
If you want all 4 commands under the same icon, there is a Combine Shapes icon also available. That’s what I have used in the above screen grab. Below is a custom thought bubble; one huge oval, surrounded by many small ovals, to create clod arcs, and the puffs going down to the dreamer/thinker.
How to create a custom thought bubble using Shape Union
Below, a sampling of custom speech bubbles you can make with the Shape Union command..
4. Cool new transition in PowerPoint 2013
For those of you who have invested in PowerPoint 2013, there is a cool new transition that has been added. It is most pertinent for this project. PAGE CURL!
The third post in this series has a link to download a free PowerPoint Comic Book template .
* If you need to change your measurement settings from inches to milimeters or vise versa, it’s all in your operating system’s control panel. Click on the region and language icon, the measurement settings page can be hiding under the advanced button. They’ll never make it easy for you!
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I want to annotate an image on my slide with callout shapes (or "speech bubbles"). I place the shape, and position the tail to point to the area of interest on the image. Then I start typing text, and usually have to resize/move the textbox. This, for whatever reason, also moves the tail/pointer around, making this process kind of unusable for me.
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