PowerPoint Essential Training (Microsoft 365)

Introduction

• Deliver a powerful message with a powerful presentation

1. Get Started Quickly

• Start quickly with a theme or template
• Create and save a new presentation

2. Work with Slides

• Add, remove, and rearrange slides
• Change the slide layout
• Change the slide color or background
• Change slides at once with slide masters
• Add your own text boxes
• Use Designer to create professional layouts

3. Images and Shapes

• Add images
• Work with shapes
• Format and add effects to objects
• Align objects using the Arrange tool
• Understand object layering
• Group objects and use Format Painter
• Remove the background from pictures
• Group shapes together
• Crop images to shapes

4. Add Diagrams and Charts

• Create and format charts
• Use SmartArt to create diagrams

5. Add Video, Audio and Animation to Slides

• Add and format video
• Add and work with audio files
• Add animation to objects and text
• Add slide transitions
• Use Morph to create animation
• Use Zoom to create animation
• Include live webcam video with Cameo

6. Helpful Accessibility Features

• Features for PowerPoint users with disabilities
• Create accessible presentations

7. Collaborate and Prepare

• Add speaker notes
• Rehearse with timings and Presenter Coach
• Share and collaborate on a presentation
• View previous revisions

8. Deliver the Presentation

• Use Presenter View to run the show
• Run unattended slideshows

9. Reuse the Presentation

• Save a custom theme
• Save a presentation as a template
• Record a presentation with the built-in teleprompter
• Export as a PDF, JPEG, or animated GIF

10. Use Copilot in PowerPoint

• Use Copilot to create and summarize presentations
• Use Copilot to create slides

11. PowerPoint Challenges

• Challenge: Make gears turn
• Challenge: Give text a background image

Conclusion

• Next steps