Learning Objectives
- Add, rearrange, and delete slides
- Import slides from another presentation into a slide show
- Apply layouts, themes, and QuickStyles
- Work with text, bullets, images, and video
- Apply simple animations and transitions
- Create presentations that are accessible for individuals with disabilities
- Create audience and presenter handouts
- Rehearse and deliver a presentation
- Package a presentation for use on other computers
Prerequisite Skills
- Use a mouse
- Work with windows, menus, dialog boxes, and the Ribbon
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PowerPoint: The Basics Contents
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Explore the contents of PowerPoint: The Basics:
Explore the PowerPoint interface.
Learn how to add content and speaker notes to a blank presentation.
Explore how to add previously created slides to the presentation.
See the full content for Inserting Slides from Another Presentation.
Use a theme to add color and design elements to the presentation.
Modify the size and color of text using both the Ribbon and the Mini toolbar.
Explore how to add an image to a slide, add alternative text to the image, and check the reading order of the slide.
Learn several ways to format images including adding a picture style, recoloring an image, setting transparent color, and removing the background from an image.
See how to link a video to a slide.
Use the Shapes gallery to add a callout to a slide, then add alternative text to the callout.
Learn how to add a hyperlink to a slide.
Create and format a table. Add text, alternative text, and a table style.
Work with the ruler and tab markers to organize text, then see how to to customize bullets and apply a Quick Style.
Explore how to apply and modify animations and transitions.
Learn about the different views in PowerPoint.
Add slide numbers to the bottom of the slides.
Explore how to add slide timings both manually and automatically, then see how to rehearse a presentation, create speaker notes, and save audience handouts as a PDF.
See the full content for Preparing a Presentation for Delivery.
Learn about the tools available when delivering a presentation including navigation techniques and annotation tools.
Run the Accessibility Checker to find possible accessibility issues.
Learn how to package a presentation for storage or for delivery on another computer.
See the full content for Saving and Packaging a Presentation.
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