Microsoft Office Training Materials – PowerPoint 2013 Foundation Training Manuals

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Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

• Starting PowerPoint 2013 and creating a blank presentation
• Opening a presentation
• Navigating between slides
• Using the zoom tool
• Changing between PowerPoint views
• Using help
• Searching for help
• Saving a presentation
• Closing a presentation
• Closing PowerPoint
• Opening multiple presentations
• Switching between multiple presentations

Creating a Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 presentation

• Creating a new presentation
• Inserting new slides into a presentation
• Recommended techniques when creating slide content
• Undo and repeat
• Saving a presentation
• Saving a presentation using a different name

Manipulating slides within Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

• Inserting slides with a particular slide layout
• Modifying the slide layout
• Changing the background colour on the active slide
• Changing background colour on all the slides within a presentation

Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 design themes

• Applying a theme to a presentation
• Modifying the theme colours
• Modifying the theme fonts

Text boxes (placeholders)

• Editing text boxes (placeholders)
• Resizing a text box (placeholder)
• Moving a text box (placeholder)

Manipulating text in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

• Selecting text
• Moving text within a slide
• Moving text between slides within a presentation or between presentations
• Copying text within a slide
• Copying text between slides within a presentation or between presentations
• Deleting text
• Using find
• Using replace

Font formatting within Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

• Font formatting options
• Changing the font type
• Changing font size
• Increasing or decreasing the font size
• Bold, italic or underline formatting
• Strikethrough effects
• Shadow effects
• Character spacing
• Changing case
• Font colour
• Clearing all text formatting

Paragraph formatting within Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

• Text alignment
• Columns
• Modifying bullet point formatting
• Using numbering instead of bullet points
• Changing the list level
• Indenting bulleted text
• Line spacing vs. Paragraph spacing
• Line spacing
• Paragraph spacing
• Using outline view
• PowerPoint presenter notes
• Text direction
• Text alignment within a text box (placeholder)
• Text AutoFit
• Using the format painter

Tables and Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

• Table selection techniques
• Column selection
• Row selection
• Entire table selection
• Creating a table
• Applying a style to a table
• Cell background shading
• Applying table effects
• Adding ‘quick styles’ to selected text
• Applying borders to cells
• Deleting a column
• Deleting a row
• Inserting rows or columns
• Modifying column width and row height
• Distributing rows and columns

Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 & illustrations

• Selecting an illustration
• Selecting multiple illustrations
• Moving an illustration
• Copying an illustration
• Deleting an illustration
• Resizing an illustration
• Stretching an illustration
• Copying illustrations between presentations
• Moving illustrations between presentations
• Inserting illustrations within PowerPoint
• Inserting pictures from your hard disk
• Inserting online pictures or clip art
• Inserting shapes
• Inserting text into a shape
• Inserting perfect circles or perfect squares
• Inserting a line
• Inserting a free drawn line
• Inserting an arrow
• Inserting a text box
• Inserting SmartArt

Manipulating graphic objects within Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

• Formatting the shape background fill colour style
• Applying a shadow to an illustration
• Modifying arrow line shapes and size
• Rotating or flipping an illustration
• Rotating illustrations by dragging with the mouse
• Layering illustrations to the front or back
• Aligning graphics relative to each other or relative to the slide
• Aligning shapes relative to the left of a slide
• Aligning shapes relative to the centre of a slide
• Aligning shapes relative to the right of a slide
• Aligning shapes relative to the top of a slide
• Aligning shapes relative to the bottom of a slide
• Grouping and ungrouping objects

Charts in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

• Inserting charts and editing the chart data
• Changing the chart type
• Changing the background colour in the chart
• Changing the column, bar, line or pie slice colours in the chart
• Chart title manipulation
• Adding data labels to a chart

Manipulating slides within Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

• Moving slides within a presentation or between presentations
• Copying slides within a presentation
• Deleting a slide or slides
• Copying slides between presentations
• Moving slides between presentations

Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 slide masters

• What is a slide master?
• Inserting a picture (clipart) into a master slide
• Removing a picture or shape from a master slide

Headers, footers and slide numbering

• Creating a footer
• Automatic slide numbering
• Inserting dates into the footer

Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 slide shows

• Running a slide show
• Adding slide show transition effects
• Removing transition effects
• Adding slide show animation effects
• Modifying slide show animation effects
• Removing animation effects
• Hiding slides
• Displaying hidden slides within a slide show

Microsoft PowerPoint video creation

• Converting a PowerPoint presentation into a video

Printing and proofing in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

• Spell-checking a presentation
• Using portrait or landscape slide orientation
• Switching between standard and widescreen formats
• Selecting your output format
• Visually inspect each slide before printing
• Printing options
• Setting the number of copies to print
• Selecting a different printer
• Printing selected slides
• Setting the number of slides per page to be printed
• Single or double sided (duplex) printing
• To print a presentation