PowerPoint Quick Tips

Enhance your PowerPoint abilities—and get on-the-spot solutions to common questions—with this collection of quick, bite-sized tutorials.

Introduction

• Work faster in PowerPoint

1. Add Content to Slides

• Insert Excel data in PowerPoint
• Insert a video from YouTube
• Add an audio or video clip to slides
• Insert PDF content onto a slide
• Add a voiceover narration to a presentation

2. Format and Organize Slides

• Change the text color on a slide
• Add a picture as a slide background
• Delete, organize, and group slides
• Change the size of slides
• Change the page orientation of a PowerPoint presentation
• Insert or change the page numbers on a slide
• Add a watermark to slides
• Embed fonts into a presentation

3. Enhancing a Presentation

• Finesse slides with PowerPoint Designer
• Add transitions and animations to slides
• Draw in a presentation
• Create flowcharts with SmartArt
• Insert a 3D model from an online file
• Use the Ink to Text feature
• Play music for the duration of a slideshow

4. Work with Slide Masters and Templates

• Customize a slide master
• Save a custom theme in PowerPoint
• Create and save a PowerPoint template

5. Presenting Slides

• View speaker notes privately during a presentation
• Enter slideshow mode with a double-click
• Rehearse a presentation with Presenter Coach

6. Other Helpful Tips

• Collaborate on a PowerPoint presentation
• Turn a presentation into a video
• Convert files from a previous version to PowerPoint 2013 or later