PowerPoint Essentials

Course Overview

Participants will learn to create, edit, and enhance slideshow presentations to create professional-looking sales presentations, employee training, instructional materials, and kiosk slideshows. Learners will gain a fundamental understanding of the PowerPoint

2016 environment and the correct use of key features of this application.

Module One: Create and manage presentations

Create a presentation

• Create a new presentation

• Create a presentation based on a template

• Import Word document outlines

Insert and format slides

• Insert specific slide layouts

• Duplicate existing slides

• Hide and unhide slides

• Delete slides

• Apply a different slide layout

• Modify individual slide backgrounds

• Insert slide headers, footers, and page numbers

Modify slides, handouts, and notes

• Change the slide master theme or background

• Modify slide master content

• Create a slide layout

• Modify a slide layout

• Modify the handout master

• Modify the notes master

Order and group slides

• Create sections

• Modify slide order

• Rename sections

Change presentation options and views

• Change slide size

• Change views of a presentation

• Set file properties

Configure a presentation for print

• Print all or part of a presentation

• Print notes pages; print handouts

• Print in color, grayscale, or black and white

Configure and present a slide show

• Create custom slide shows

• Configure slide show options

• Rehearse slide show timing

• Present a slide show by using Presenter View

Module Two: Insert and Format Text, Shapes, and Images

Insert and format text

• Insert text on a slide

• Apply formatting and styles to text

• Apply WordArt styles to text

• Format text in multiple columns

• Create bulleted and numbered lists

• Insert hyperlinks

Insert and Format Shapes and Text Boxes

• Insert or replace shapes

• Insert text boxes, resize shapes and text boxes

• Format shapes and text boxes

• Apply styles to shapes and text boxes

Insert and format images

• Insert images

• Resize and crop images

• Apply styles and effects

Order and group objects

• Order objects

• Align objects

• Group objects

• Display alignment tools

Module Three: Insert Tables, Charts, SmartArt, and Media

Insert and Format Tables

• Create a table

• Insert and delete table rows and columns

• Apply table styles

• Import a table

Insert and Format Charts

• Create a chart

• Import a chart

• Change the Chart Type

• Add a legend to a chart

• Change the chart style of a chart

Insert and Format SmartArt Graphics

• Create SmartArt graphics

• Convert lists to SmartArt graphics

• Add shapes to SmartArt graphics

• Reorder shapes in SmartArt graphics

• Change the color of SmartArt graphics

Insert and manage media

• Insert audio and video clips

• Configure media playback options

• Adjust media window size

• Set the video start and stop time

• Set media timing options

Module Four: Apply transitions and animations

Apply slide transitions

• Insert Slide Transitions

• Set transition effect options

Animate Slide Content

• Apply animations to objects

• Apply animations to text

• Set animation effect options

• Set animation paths

Set Timing for Transitions and Animations

• Set transition effect duration

• Configure transition start and finish options

• Reorder animations on a slide

Module Five: Manage Multiple Presentations

Merge Content From Multiple Presentations

• Insert slides from another presentation

• compare two presentations

• insert comments, review comments

Finalize Presentations

• Protect a presentation

• Inspect a presentation