PowerPoint fundamentals

Overview

The goal of this course is to teach the foundational skills to effectively work with PowerPoint. Emphasis is placed on how to navigate and effectively use the ribbon, when to use shortcuts, and how to use key elements of PowerPoint.

• Essential skills
  • Creating slides
  • Adding text
  • Creating objects
• Editing
  • Cut, copy, paste
  • Formatting & fonts
• Objects
  • Creating and modifying common shapes
    • Boxes
    • Lines
    • Text boxes
  • Alignment
  • Rotating objects to the slide and other objects
  • Grouping commands for ease of use
• Tables
  • Creating new tables
  • Modifying tables
  • Formatting tables
• Graphs
  • Choosing the right graph
  • Creating new graphs from your data
  • Changing graph data source
  • Formatting graphs
• Working with images
  • Sizing
  • File types
  • Formatting
• Speeding it up
  • Creating a quick access toolbar
  • Shortcut keys