Microsoft PowerPoint: Theory, Exercises & Video Tutorials
- Length: 379 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publication Date: 2021-09-12
- ISBN-10: B09G3C387Y
- Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)
Learn PowerPoint with this complete PowerPoint tutorial, including the theory, quizzes, exercises and videos.
PowerPoint is a powerful tool that was developed to help anyone create amazing presentations, no matter what their technical ability. But too many people use PowerPoint the wrong way. What is the wrong way? Well, I’d say it was any way that makes your audience wish they weren’t watching your presentation. Or worse, puts them to sleep.
I am sure you have you seen PowerPoint presentations like that. What made them boring? Too much text? Endless bullets? Maybe the presenter just read the slides?
But PowerPoint presentations don’t need to be boring, and that is why I decided to write this book.
I have two goals:
- To teach you how to use PowerPoint, so you are comfortable and competent finding your way around the interface. When you need to create a presentation, I want you to feel confident in using PowerPoint, even excited.
- To explore the basics of good presentation design. We’ll consider what makes a presentation boring and try our best to avoid those things. We’ll look at how you can keep your audience engaged and interested in what you are saying by strategically using the tools built into PowerPoint.
The ultimate goal of this course is to teach you to create engaging PowerPoint presentations that entertain and educate your audience, while keeping them awake and focused on you. I want to teach you to create PowerPoint presentations that you are proud of, and people talk about – in a good way.
This course uses PowerPoint from Office 365, so it is the most up-to-date version. 365 is almost identical to the 2019 version and I have included tips in the book for 2016 users.
What is covered:
- How to set up your PowerPoint presentations the correct way from the start.
- The principles of good design when it comes to PowerPoint presentations. You’ll learn about the mistakes most presenters make and how to avoid them in your own work.
- The slide master, and how to use it effectively in your own workflow.
- Inserting objects, aligning, the selection pane, Z order, grouping, and much more.
- Adding an formatting text, including WordArt.
- Adding shapes and joining, merging, flipping and rotating them.
- The format shape options and Format Painter tool.
- Adding pictures and removing backgrounds inside PowerPoint.
- Vectors and icons.
- Smartart.
- Adding charts and configuring them to show only the information you want them to show, with a look at chart elements, and chart data.
- Adding and configuring tables.
- Adding audio and video.
- Choosing the best transitions for your slides.
- Using animations strategically to draw the eye of your audience to the part of the slide you are focusing on.
- Transition and animation timing.
- Motion path animations.
- Using the animation pane to fine tune the sequence of animations on your slide.
- Stacking animations so that a single object can have more than one animation on a slide.
- Setting up the slideshow to run full screen or in a window, or using the outstanding presenter view which gives you all of the tools you need to create that perfect presentation.
- Printing stuff, including handouts for your audience or notes for yourself.
- The course includes over a dozen practice exercises for you to have a go at, as well as video solutions where appropriate.
- We will end the course by creating a demo presentation of a real-world application while trying to incorporate the ideas we discussed about good slide design to make our presentation stand out from the crowd.
By the end of this book you will be both confident and competent in using PowerPoint to create amazing presentations.
Chapter 1. Introduction What Is PowerPoint? 1.1 Versions of PowerPoint How to find out which version you are using. 1.2 The PowerPoint Interface 1.2.1 Quick Access Toolbar 1.2.2. The PowerPoint Ribbon Customizing the Ribbon Ribbon Bar Default Tabs 1.2.3 Slide Selector and Main Editing Window 1.2.4 Search Bar 1.2.5 Status Bar 1.3 Keyboard Shortcuts Standard Windows Keys ALT Key CTRL, SHIFT, and CTRL+SHIFT Selecting with the Selection Pane Make your Own Crib Sheet 1.4 Language Practice Exercise: The Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) Chapter 2. PowerPoint QuickStart 2.1 Create a New Presentation 2.2 Saving Your New Presentation 2.2.1. Auto-Save? 2.3 Design Tab 2.4 Slide Master Basics Why Use Slide Masters? 2.5 New Slide 2.5 Insert Tab 2.7 Animations Tab 2.8 Transitions Tab 2.9 Presentation Views 2.10 Review Tab 2.11 Slide Show Tab Practice Exercise: Quick Start Chapter 3. Good Design 3.1 Slide Purpose? 3.2 Slide Size 3.3 Fonts How to Embed Fonts Where to Find Fonts? 3.4 Colors 3.5 Text 3.6 De-Clutter 3.7 Be Creative Pie Charts Tree Maps Funnel Charts Map Charts Grids 3.8 Animations and Transitions 3.9 Slide Reveals Summary of Good Design Practice Exercise: Good Design Chapter 4. The Slide Master 4.1 Pros & Cons of Using Slide Masters Multiple Slide Master 4.2 Types of Masters 4.2.1 The Handout Master 4.2.2 The Note Master Practice Exercise: Slide Master Chapter 5. Inserting Stuff 5.1 Zooming 5.2 Aligning 5.2.1. Aligning to Slide or Object 5.3 Z-Order 5.4 Selection Pane 5.5 Grouping Elements Summary: Practice Exercise: Inserting Stuff Chapter 6. Adding Text 6.1 Text Formatting 6.2 SmartArt Practice Exercise: Adding Text Chapter 7. Adding Shapes 7.1 Adding a Shape 7.2 Shapes 7.3 Shapes Can Have Text 7.4 Changing Shapes 7.5 Additional Handles on Shapes 7.6 Freeform Shapes (Polygons) 7.7 Curved Shapes 7.8 Joining Shapes with Lines 7.8.1 Flipping and Rotating Shapes 7.9 Shape Options 7.10 Format Shape Pane 7.11 Format Painter 7.12 Editing Points for Shapes 7.13 Merge Shapes Practice Exercise: Adding Shapes Chapter 8. Adding Pictures 8.1 Inserting Pictures 8.1.1 Stock Images 8.2 Transparent Backgrounds 8.3 Vectors 8.3.1 Icons 8.4 SmartArt Practical exercise: Adding Pictures Chapter 9. Adding Charts 9.1 Charts 9.2 Chart Elements 9.3 Chart Data 9.3.1 Selecting Data to Show in Chart 9.3.2 Working with Excel 9.4 Chart Formatting 9.4.1 Chart Plot Area 9.4.2 Chart Title 9.4.3 Chart Legend 9.4.4 Format Axis 9.4.5 Chart Gridlines 9.4.6 Chart Filters 9.4.7 Chart Styles Practical exercise: Working with Data Chapter 10. Adding Tables Practical exercise: Adding Tables Chapter 11. Adding Audio and Video 11.1 Audio 11.1.1 Playback Options 11.2 Video Practical exercise: Audio & Video Chapter 12. Animations and Transitions 12.1 Transitions 12.1.1 Morph Transition 12.1.2 Transition Timing 12.2 Animations 12.2.1 Adding Animations 12.2.2 Motion Paths 12.2.3. Animation Timings 12.2.4 The Animation Timeline 12.2.5 Animation Painter Practical exercise: Animations & Transitions Task 1 - Push Transition Task 2 - Motion Path Chapter 13. SlideShow 13.1 Export Formats 13.2 Slide Show Tab 13.3 Run Slide Show 13.4 Presenter View Chapter 14. Printing Stuff Chapter 15. The Demo Project 15.1 The Brief 15.2 A Typical (BAD) Presentation 15.3 My Notes for the Presentation 15.4 Fonts, Colors, and the Slide Master 15.5 Creating the slides 15.5.1 Slide 1 - Cover Slide 15.5.1 Slide 2 – Benefits 15.5.2 Slide 3 - Wavelength and Frequency 15.5.3 Slide 4 – Measurements 15.5.4 Slide 5 - Construction and Deployment 15.6 Let’s Run the Slideshow Chapter 16 – Odds and Ends 16.1 Reusing Slides 16.2 Edraw Max 16.3 Good Slide Design Reminder Unofficial PowerPoint Rules & Points to Remember Chapter 17. In Closing… Where to Go from Here? Please leave a review on Amazon Interested in my online course?
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