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PowerPoint 2013: Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Microsoft Powerpoint Courses Presentation Skills Courses File Management Courses Text Formatting Courses

Course Description

Overview

See how to get the most out of PowerPoint 2013, while learning cool tricks for making your presentations dazzle.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Top Ten Tips
  • Animating objects with the painter
  • Matching colors with the Eyedropper tool
  • Repurposing slides from other presentations
  • Using multiple templates in one presentation
  • Merging shapes to create a custom shape
  • Creating a custom animation
  • Zooming in to highlight slide details
  • Playing sounds across multiple slides
  • Fitting an image into another shape
  • Inserting online video into a slide
2. Tips for Managing Your Files
  • Accessing recent files quickly
  • Choosing a default save location
  • Setting AutoRecover options
  • Methods for reducing file sizes
  • Embedding fonts in your saved files
  • Opening Word documents in PowerPoint
3. Customizing the User Interface
  • Organizing objects with Smart Guides
  • Enabling grids and gridlines
  • Customizing the Ribbon
  • Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
4. Handy Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts
  • Changing views with the Shift and Alt keys
  • Selecting Ribbon commands with KeyTips
  • Navigating slideshows with the keyboard
  • Mouse tricks for navigating slideshows
5. Working with Text
  • Adding headers, footers, and dates
  • Creating abbreviations with AutoCorrect
  • Adjusting paragraph spacing
  • Clearing text formatting
6. Working with Media
  • Inserting screenshots
  • Customizing clip art
  • Making image colors transparent
  • Disabling graphics acceleration
7. Working with Objects and Animations
  • Creating 3D shapes
  • Applying advanced picture effects
  • Creating the perfect gradient
  • Adding action buttons to a slide
  • Animating bulleted lists
  • Creating cumulative animations
  • Coordinating transitions
  • Using the Selection pane
8. Sharing Presentations
  • Printing files economically
  • Removing proprietary metadata
  • Sharing your presentation in the cloud
  • Creating custom slideshows
  • Saving presentations as templates
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

David Rivers

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