Overview
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Teaches the basics of creating, editing, and sharing presentations with PowerPoint 2013.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Touring the PowerPoint interface
- Exploring the Ribbon
- Exploring the status bar
- Changing views and adding guides
- Connecting Powerpoint to your SkyDrive account
- 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
- Adding and removing slides
- Changing the slide layout
- Organizing slides into sections
- Rearranging 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Checking spelling
- Adding speaker notes
- Editing and printing handout masters
- Rehearsing a presentation
- Adding and viewing comments
- Reviewing and comparing changes with coworkers
- Running a slideshow
- Using Presenter view
- Annotating, highlighting, zooming, and jumping to different sections or slides during a slideshow
- 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
- Next steps
