PowerPoint Quick Tips

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 one to two minutes in length, making it easy for you to squeeze in a few learning opportunities throughout your workday. Presentation specialist Camille Holden shares 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

0. Introduction

01 - Work faster in PowerPoint

1. Add Content to Slides

02 - Working with placeholders
03 - Insert a chart
04 - Insert a picture
05 - Insert a video from YouTube
06 - Add a video from your computer
07 - Add an audio clip

2. Format and Organize Slides

08 - Select multiple objects on a slide
09 - Change the text color on a slide
10 - Using the cropping tool
11 - Add a picture as a slide background
12 - Delete and move slides
13 - Group and organize slides
14 - Change the size of slides
15 - Insert or change the page numbers on a slide
16 - Add a watermark to slides
17 - Embed fonts into a presentation

3. Enhancing a Presentation

18 - Enhance slides with PowerPoint Designer
19 - Add animations to objects
20 - Add transitions to slides
21 - Draw in a presentation
22 - Create flowcharts with SmartArt
23 - Insert a 3D model

4. Work with Slide Masters and Templates

24 - Customize a slide master
25 - Reset your layout
26 - Save a custom theme in PowerPoint
27 - Customize the Handout Master and Notes Master
28 - Create and save a PowerPoint template

5. Presenting Slides

29 - View speaker notes privately during a presentation
30 - Using the laser pointer, pen, and highlighter
31 - Rehearse a presentation with Presenter Coach

6. Other Helpful Tips

32 - Collaborate on a PowerPoint presentation
33 - Turn a presentation into a video
34 - Save a presentation as a PDF
35 - Convert files from a previous version of PowerPoint
36 - Embedding versus linking a chart
37 - Fix a broken link chart
38 - Compress a large PowerPoint file