PowerPoint Basics In 30 Minutes: How to make effective PowerPoint presentations using a PC, Mac, PowerPoint Online, or the PowerPoint app

by Angela Rose

Overview

When you're giving a slide presentation, a positive impression can make a sale or win over an audience. PowerPoint Basics In 30 Minutes can help you connect with audiences and make great presentations that get real results. This unofficial PowerPoint user guide covers the basic features of PowerPoint 2016 (part of the Office 365 suite), PowerPoint Online, and the PowerPoint mobile apps, including PowerPoint for Android and PowerPoint for iOS. The PowerPoint manual also demonstrates how to use some of PowerPoint's most powerful features and tools, such as:

• Premade PowerPoint templates with gorgeous backgrounds and fonts.
• Custom PowerPoint layouts that fit your personality or corporate identity.
• Special PowerPoint formatting and design options.
• Tools to place photos, video, and audio onto slides.
• Shapes, graphs, tables, and SmartArt.
• Graceful transitions between PowerPoint slides.
• PowerPoint animations that can make text and other elements come to life.
• Proofing tools for spelling and review.
• PowerPoint collaboration features that make it easy to work with colleagues or classmates.
• Exporting PowerPoint PDFs, online versions for the Web, and package presentations to share with others.
• Creating paper copies and printed PowerPoint handouts.
• Showing your presentation with a mouse or mobile device, or using a PowerPoint remote or PowerPoint clicker

Author Angela Rose also gives tips on how to communicate more effectively using PowerPoint decks. Whether you are giving a business presentation, preparing a lecture for a class or seminar, or using Microsoft PowerPoint for personal use, PowerPoint Basics In 30 Minutes can help you create a better-looking presentation that makes a big impact.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641880435
Publisher:	I30 Media Corporation
Publication date:	03/10/2020
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	104
Sales rank:	824,155
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Angela Rose is a writer and B2C marketing strategist based in Colorado. She is the author of the award-winning LinkedIn In 30 Minutes (2nd Edition) as well as Microsoft Word In 30 Minutes.

Table of Contents

PowerPoint Basics In 30 Minutes Contents

Introduction: Why people use PowerPoint

How people use PowerPoint

CHAPTER 1: Choosing, launching, and navigating PowerPoint

PowerPoint purchase options

PowerPoint vs. PowerPoint Online: Cost

PowerPoint vs. PowerPoint Online: Functionality

Mobile apps for Android and iOS

OneDrive

Launching PowerPoint

Presenting to an audience

Starting and advancing a presentation

Using Presenter View

Backstage View

Navigating PowerPoint’s Ribbon interface

Other features of the Ribbon

Display options when working on presentations

Saving your presentation

Which file format should I use?

Shutting down

Locating a recovered file

CHAPTER 2: Creating a basic presentation

Inserting and editing new slides

Slide layouts and themes

Customizing slide layouts

Adjusting placeholders

Adding text boxes

Formatting slide backgrounds

Using master slides

Slide order within your presentation

How to move a slide

How to delete a slide

How to duplicate a slide

Formatting text

Images

How to insert an image

How to move, resize or rotate an image

Basic image edits

Aligning and grouping objects

How to align objects

How to group objects

How to order objects

How to zoom

CHAPTER 3: Intermediate features

Shapes and SmartArt

How to insert simple shapes

Simple shape edits

How to insert SmartArt Graphics

SmartArt Graphic edits

Charts

Videos

How to insert a video

Editing and formatting a video

Text and object animations

Animation types

Applying an animation

Slide transitions

Applying a transition

CHAPTER 4: Proofing, printing, and sharing

Proofing a presentation

Presentation collaboration tools

Collaboration

How to add a comment

How to reply to a comment

How to edit or delete a comment

Protecting a presentation

Printing, sharing, and exporting slide decks

How to print your PowerPoint

How to export a PowerPoint

Exporting as a PDF

Packaging presentations for others to use

Conclusion

APPENDIX: Keyboard Shortcuts

About the author

Index