Practical PowerPoint 2013 Tips & Tricks

No more boring presentations. Amp up your slide decks with nifty tricks that most users don’t know about.
This course covers Tips & Tricks on Microsoft PowerPoint 2013. It assumes you have used PowerPoint and are familiar with creating, editing & formatting presentations. In a quick and lively manner this will cover what is new in this version of PowerPoint and also show you some tips to increase your productivity in PowerPoint and widen your skills.

The course begins a review of online account options followed by interface changes in the ribbon and the use of touch for editing objects. A tool to convert from widescreen 9:16 to standard 3:4 is shown. Several new tools for layout and editing are reviewed including alignment guides, the eyedropper for color picking, and removing the background color from objects. Slide masters and layouts are demonstrated as well as how to bring in Excel data and charts. Several examples of cresting and editing SmartArt for beautiful diagrams are seen. Inserting & editing videos is demonstrated including trimming and compressing the video and saving the entire presentation as a video. The mysteries of adding and customizing animations is covered as well as presenter tips like hiding a slide and using the Presenter View for complete control of your show. Finally you see several examples of how to share presentations online and through social media sites. Throughout the course the videos are quick, lively and clearly explained. If you don’t have all day to spend on a course this will cover the highlights of what’s new and a bit more in two quick hours.