PowerPoint 2016 Tips, Tools, & Timesavers

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Course Length

Three hours

 Prerequisites

PowerPoint 2016 Introduction or equivalent experience

 

Course Description

This class is for the PowerPoint user who wants to learn how to make presentations more effective. Over 50 valuable PowerPoint tips, tools, and timesavers will be covered along with general presentation guidelines.

 Course Topics

  • Switch between Thumbnails and Outline panes
  • Select a placeholder
  • Use the “Resume Reading” feature
  • Resize panes in normal view
  • Enlarge or reduce text in increments
  • Insert a symbol into a presentation
  • Select nonadjacent text
  • Use text effects
  • Animate the entrance of multi-level bullets
  • Use the Animation Painter Tool
  • Create a new slide with the same layout
  • Resize text in proportion with a graphic
  • Move an object in small increments
  • Insert a picture from a file into a shape
  • Apply a motion path to text or an object
  • Resize or move a motion path
  • Display a picture in a chart element
  • Stack a picture in a chart element
  • Create a slide watermark from a picture
  • Add a custom slide border
  • Use Theme Variants
  • Use the Eyedropper to Match Colors
  • Replace fonts
  • Create a bulleted list using text from a word document
  • Toggle text case
  • Create slides from a word document
  • Draw a shape multiple times
  • Create evenly spaced duplicates of an object
  • Create a mirror image
  • Select an object concealed behind another object
  • Create picture bullets
  • Create a SmartArt diagram from text
  • Inspect and remove hidden data and personal information
  • Run a slide show using keystrokes
  • Show the slide number and total number of slides on every slide
  • Add special slide numbering
  • Turn the mouse into a laser pointer
  • Write on slides during a slide show
  • Pause a slide show
  • See all slides
  • Quickly move to the beginning or end of a slide show
  • Move to a specific slide during a slide show
  • Remove the black slide at the end of a slide show
  • Hide a slide
  • Quickly access the Set Up Show dialog box
  • Create and print a custom show
  • Run a custom show by default
  • Advance slides automatically and on mouse click
  • Create custom handout pages in Word
  • Set password(s) for a presentation
  • Customize the “Recent Presentations” list
  • Pin a file in the “Recent Presentations” list
  • Quickly access recent presentations
  • Discuss guidelines for text, graphics, animation, color, font, charts, slides, and presentation delivery

What Participants Receive

Each participant receives a guide containing step-by-step instructions.