PowerPoint Quick Tips

Introduction

• Work faster in PowerPoint

1. Add Content to Slides

• Working with placeholders
• Insert a chart
• Insert a picture
• Insert a video from YouTube
• Add a video from your computer
• Add an audio clip

2. Format and Organize Slides

• Select multiple objects on a slide
• Change the text color on a slide
• Using the cropping tool
• Add a picture as a slide background
• Delete and move slides
• Group and organize slides
• Change the size of slides
• Insert or change the page numbers on a slide
• Add a watermark to slides
• Embed fonts into a presentation

3. Enhancing a Presentation

• Enhance slides with PowerPoint Designer
• Add animations to objects
• Add transitions to slides
• Draw in a presentation
• Create flowcharts with SmartArt
• Insert a 3D model

4. Work with Slide Masters and Templates

• Customize a slide master
• Reset your layout
• Save a custom theme in PowerPoint
• Customize the Handout Master and Notes Master
• Create and save a PowerPoint template

5. Presenting Slides

• View speaker notes privately during a presentation
• Using the laser pointer, pen, and highlighter
• Rehearse a presentation with Presenter Coach

6. Other Helpful Tips

• Collaborate on a PowerPoint presentation
• Turn a presentation into a video
• Save a presentation as a PDF
• Convert files from a previous version of PowerPoint
• Embedding versus linking a chart
• Fix a broken link chart
• Compress a large PowerPoint file