PowerPoint Fundamentals

Creating New Presentations

• Creating a Presentation
• Choosing a Template/Theme
• Changing the Template/Theme
• Adding Slides & Typing in Content

Slide Layouts

• Choosing a Slide Layout
• Changing the Slide Layout

Adding Text & Outline View

• Adding Text
• Bulleted vs Numbered Lists
• Adding & Editing Text with Outline View
• Outline View Keystrokes

Pictures & Graphics

• Placing Pictures into Placeholders
• Cropping Photos
• Sizing Graphics
• Fixing Stretched/Squished Photos
• Where to Get Photos
• Crop to Shape & Aspect Ratio

Adjusting Photos & Graphics

• Picture Adjustments (such as converting to Black & White)
• Picture Border & Effects

Layered Objects

• Layered Object vs Placeholder Content
• Aligning
• Evenly Distributing
• Grouping
• Reordering Layered Objects

SmartArt

• Creating SmartArt
• Adding Text
• Layouts, Styles, & Shapes
• Converting Text into SmartArt
• SmartArt with Picture Placeholders

Shapes & Lines

• Adding Shapes
• Styling Shapes
• Adding Text to Shapes
• Resizing, Moving, & Rotating Shapes
• Connector Lines
• Text Boxes

Tables

• Creating Tables in PowerPoint
• Typing in Table Data
• Designing Tables
• Table Layout
• Sizing Tables & Columns/Rows
• Alignment & Spacing In a Table
• Adding or Removing Rows/Columns
• Merging Cells

Copying & Pasting Charts from Excel

• Importing a Chart from Excel
• Updating the Chart Data when the Excel File Changes

Transitions

• Adding Slide Transitions
• Transition Effect Options & Duration

Proofing & Editing

• Spell Check
• Slide Sorter View

Running a Presentation

• Starting & Stopping a Slide Show
• Ways to Navigate Slide Shows
• Tools to Use When Presenting
• Presenter Notes
• Presenter View
• Presenting in Microsoft Teams (PowerPoint Live)
• Presenter Notes in Zoom

Printing

• Choosing What Will Go On the Printed Page

Saving a PDF

• Why Make a PDF?
• Saving a PDF & Setting Options