Microsoft PowerPoint

PowerPoint 2023 basics

• Start PowerPoint
• Work in the PowerPoint user interface
• Sidebar: About Office
• Identify app window elements
• Sidebar: Tell me what you want to do
• Work with the ribbon and status bar
• Sidebar: Adapt procedure steps
• Manage Office and app settings
• Sidebar: Microsoft account options

Create and manage presentations

• Create presentations
• Open and navigate presentations
• Display different views of presentations
• Display standard views
• Display program elements
• Change the display of content
• Display and edit presentation properties
• Save and close presentations
• Sidebar: Compatibility with earlier versions
• Sidebar: Save files to OneDrive

Create and manage slides

• Add and remove slides
• Insert new slides
• Copy and import slides and content
• Sidebar: SharePoint slide libraries
• Hide and delete slides
• Divide presentations into sections
• Rearrange slides and sections
• Apply themes
• Change slide backgrounds
• Sidebar: Non-theme colors

Enter and edit text on slides

• Enter text on slides
• Enter text in placeholders
• Insert nonstandard characters
• Add supplementary text to slides
• Sidebar: Insert equations
• Add a slide footer
• Move, copy, and delete text
• Sidebar: Format text placeholders
• Format characters and paragraphs
• Apply WordArt text effects
• Sidebar: Configure AutoCorrect options
• Check spelling and choose the best wording
• Sidebar: Find and replace text and fonts

Present text in tables

• Insert tables
• Format tables
• Modify table structure
• Embed and link to Excel content

Insert and manage simple graphics

• Insert, move, and resize pictures
• Sidebar: Graphic formats
• Edit and format pictures
• Draw and modify shapes
• Draw and add text to shapes
• Sidebar: Locate additional formatting commands
• Move and modify shapes
• Format shapes
• Sidebar: Connect shapes
• Capture and insert screen clippings
• Create a photo album

Create and manage business graphics

• Create diagrams
• Sidebar: Picture diagrams
• Modify diagrams
• Format diagrams
• Create charts
• Modify charts
• Manage chart data
• Modify the display of chart elements
• Sidebar: Pie charts
• Format charts

Add sound and movement to slides

• Animate text and pictures on slides
• Sidebar: Animate this
• Customize animation effects
• Sidebar: Bookmark points of interest in media clips
• Add audio content to slides
• Add video content to slides
• Compress media to decrease file size
• Sidebar: Hyperlink to additional resources
• Add and manage slide transitions

Review presentations

• Add notes to slides
• Configure slides for presentation or printing
• Inspect and finalize presentations
• Print presentations and handouts
• Skills review
• Practice tasks
• 10 Prepare and deliver presentations
• Adapt presentations for different audiences
• Rehearse a presentation and set slide timings
• Sidebar: Prepare presentations for travel
• Present slide shows
• Start the slide show
• Use the slide show tools

Work in PowerPoint more efficiently

• Change default PowerPoint options
• Manage general Office and PowerPoint options
• Manage proofing options
• Manage file locations
• Manage language options
• Manage advanced options
• Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
• Customize the ribbon
• Manage add-ins and security options
• Manage add-ins
• Configure Trust Center options

Create custom presentation elements

• Create custom themes
• Customize slide masters and layouts
• Save custom presentation templates

Save and share presentations

• Save presentations in other formats
• Share presentations from PowerPoint
• Restrict access by using passwords
• Add and review comments
• Coauthor presentations

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