PowerPoint Quick Tips (2021)

Course details

Enhance your PowerPoint abilities—and get on-the-spot solutions to common questions—with this collection of quick, bite-sized tutorials. Each video is self-contained and about one to two minutes in length, making it easy for you to squeeze in a few learning opportunities throughout your workday. Instructors Jess Stratton, Garrick Chow, and Nick Brazzi share tips and tricks that can help you work smarter with this popular presentation platform. Learn how to add a watermark to slides, turn your presentation into a video, add transitions and animations, create PowerPoint templates, and much more.

Concepts

Introduction

Work faster in PowerPoint

Add Content to Slides

Insert Excel data in PowerPoint
Insert a video from YouTube
Add an audio or video clip to slides
Insert PDF content onto a slide
Add a voiceover narration to a presentation

Format and Organize Slides

Change the text color on a slide
Add a picture as a slide background
Delete organize and group slides
Change the size of slides
Change the page orientation of a PowerPoint presentation
Insert or change the page numbers on a slide
Add a watermark to slides
Embed fonts into a presentation

Enhancing a Presentation

Finesse slides with PowerPoint Designer
Add transitions and animations to slides
Draw in a presentation
Create flowcharts with SmartArt
Insert a 3D model from an online file
Use the Ink to Text feature
Play music for the duration of a slideshow

Work with Slide Masters and Templates

Customize a slide master
Save a custom theme in PowerPoint
Create and save a PowerPoint template

Presenting Slides

View speaker notes privately during a presentation
Enter slideshow mode with a double-click
Rehearse a presentation with Presenter Coach

Other Helpful Tips

Collaborate on a PowerPoint presentation
Turn a presentation into a video
Convert files from a previous version to PowerPoint 2013 or later