PowerPoint 2013 Essential Training

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Navigating PowerPoint

• Touring the PowerPoint interface
• Exploring the Ribbon
• Exploring the status bar
• Changing views and adding guides
• Connecting Powerpoint to your SkyDrive account

2. Working with Presentations

• Creating a presentation from scratch and saving
• Creating a presentation from a template or theme
• Changing themes
• Controlling the look of your presentation with slide masters
• Adding a header and footer
• Working with file options using Backstage view

3. Working with Slides

• Adding and removing slides
• Changing the slide layout
• Organizing slides into sections
• Rearranging slides

4. Adding Pictures to Slides

• Adding pictures and clip art
• Aligning objects using guides
• Formatting and adding effects to pictures
• Understanding object layering
• Removing the background from pictures
• Matching a logo's color to the PowerPoint color palettes using the Eyedropper tool
• Inserting screenshots into a presentation

5. Adding Content to Slides

• Working with bullet points
• Using Outline mode to edit content directly
• Formatting text and creating WordArt
• Working with text boxes
• Creating and formatting tables
• Inserting tables from Excel
• Using the research, language, and thesaurus tools

6. Adding Shapes, Diagrams, and Charts to Slides

• Adding shapes
• Formatting shapes
• Cropping a picture to a shape
• Merging shapes to create your own graphics
• Creating and formatting charts
• Using SmartArt to create diagrams
• Adding equations

7. Adding Video, Audio, and Animation to Slides

• Adding and formatting video from your computer and from YouTube
• Working with video clips
• Adding and working with audio files
• Adding slide transitions
• Adding animation to objects and text

8. Preparing the Presentation

• Checking spelling
• Adding speaker notes
• Editing and printing handout masters
• Rehearsing a presentation
• Adding and viewing comments
• Reviewing and comparing changes with coworkers

9. Delivering Your Presentation

• Running a slideshow
• Using Presenter view
• Annotating, highlighting, zooming, and jumping to different sections or slides during a slideshow

10. Reusing and Sharing Presentations

• Saving a custom theme
• Saving a presentation as a template
• Printing a presentation
• Recording and narrating a slideshow
• Saving your presentation as a video
• Exporting the presentation as a PDF or JPEG
• Sending the presentation via email
• Inspecting a presentation for stray comments
• Presenting live online
• Packaging the presentation for use on another computer

Conclusion

• Next steps