Overview
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Learn how to build a high-impact PowerPoint presentation from start to finish.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Creating a PowerPoint presentation from an outline
- Using the exercise files
1. Approaching a Presentation
- Setting and achieving a goal for your presentation
- Building a presentation in stages
- Building a production schedule for your presentation
2. Building the Outline
- Why create an outline first?
- The impact of a PowerPoint theme on your outline
- Using Microsoft Word to create a presentation outline
- Using Microsoft PowerPoint to create or modify a presentation outline
- Collaborating with a team on the presentation outline
3. Using the Outline to Create Slides
- Converting the outline into an initial slide deck
- Changing the format of PowerPoint slides
- Modifying a PowerPoint slide in Outline view
- Adjusting the layout of a slide master
- Advice on changing PowerPoint templates and themes
4. Working with Text
- Formatting text in PowerPoint with the format bar
- Stylizing text
- Creating a table in PowerPoint
- Adding presenter notes in PowerPoint
- Fixing spelling errors
5. Photos, Video, Charts, and Shapes
- Adding a photo to PowerPoint
- Cropping a photo in PowerPoint
- Adjusting a photo's appearance in PowerPoint
- Adding a video to PowerPoint
- Creating a chart in PowerPoint
- Modifying a chart's appearance in PowerPoint
- Adding a webpage to a slide
- Working with SmartArt
- Reducing a PowerPoint presentation's file size
6. Animating a Presentation
- Creating a text build in PowerPoint
- Revealing a chart in PowerPoint
- Revealing a photo in PowerPoint
- Adding a transition to a slide in PowerPoint
- Adding multiple transitions at once in PowerPoint
7. Getting Ready for Playback of Your Presentation
- Testing your PowerPoint presentation
- Consolidating your presentation files for smoother playback
- Tips on rehearsing your PowerPoint presentation
Conclusion
- Wrap up
