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PowerPoint 2013: Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts

via LinkedIn Learning

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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