PowerPoint 2016: Tips and Tricks

Get tips and tricks for designing better presentations with PowerPoint 2016. Learn to format slides, create handouts, and use Excel data.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course

1. Customize PowerPoint

• Add often-used tools to the Ribbon
• Change the save location and add Google Drive
• Customize the view

2. Create and Edit Great Content

• Remove the background from pictures
• Use the Eyedropper tool to match colors
• Create custom icons using shapes
• Use the language tools
• Copy and paste formatting
• Use PowerPoint to create social media posts

3. Work with Existing Content

• Organize slides into sections
• Use Outline view to quickly build slides from Microsoft Word
• Create your own layouts with slide masters
• Add footers to the bottom of every slide
• Align and size photos perfectly
• Use the Morph tool for seamless animation

4. Prepare for Your Presentation

• Create handouts
• Reherse a presentation and add speaker notes
• Use Presenter view and add annotations

5. Work with Excel Data in PowerPoint

• Copy and embed charts onto a slide
• Copy a selection of cells onto a slide
• Embed an entire spreadsheet as an object
• Dynamically update text on a slide from Excel

Conclusion

• Goodbye