Microsoft PowerPoint for dummies
Book - 2022
"Presentations are your opportunity to stand out from the crowd, impress your colleagues, and be the smartest person in the room. And upping your PowerPoint game is the key to making your next talk one to remember. But where do you start? Luckily, the trusted For Dummies series is here to help you put the umph back in your PowerPoint decks, one compelling slide at a time. Don't worry if you're completely new to PowerPoint, or even Microsoft Office in general. PowerPoint For Dummies, Office 2021 Edition quickly gets you up to speed on the basics of this world-famous presentation software, starting with understanding and using the interface. You'll learn to create a new presentation from scratch, leverage free templates to... accelerate the making of your next slide deck, and even import data from other applications. Already know the fundamentals? Then skip straight to the sizzle with step-by-step instructions on integrating charts and graphics into your next presentation. Knock your audience's socks off with attention-grabbing videos, special effects that make it impossible to look away, and seamless slide transitions. Organized for easy and fast reference, this practical guide walks you through all of the strategies and techniques you'll need."--
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2022]
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- English
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- Includes an index.
"Covers PowerPoint 2021 & Office 365 version"--Cover. - Physical Description
- xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781119829140
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1. Getting Started with PowerPoint
- Chapter 1. Welcome to PowerPoint
- What in Sam Hill is PowerPoint?
- Getting PowerPoint
- Introducing PowerPoint Presentations
- Understanding Presentation Files
- What's in a Slide?
- Starting PowerPoint
- Creating a Blank Presentation
- Navigating the PowerPoint interface
- Unraveling the Ribbon
- The View from Here is Great
- Editing Text
- Adding a New Slide
- Moving from Slide to Slide
- Adding Some Style
- Displaying Your Presentation
- Saving Your Work
- Closing a Presentation
- Getting Help
- Exiting PowerPoint
- Chapter 2. Taking the Backstage Tour
- Welcome to Backstage View
- Considering Themes and Templates
- Saving Your Presentation
- Saving to a location on your computer
- Saving to OneDrive
- Saving a copy of a presentation
- Opening a Presentation
- Pinning a Presentation for Easy Access
- Chapter 3. Editing Slides
- Moving from Slide to Slide
- Working with Objects
- Selecting objects
- Resizing or moving an object
- Editing a Text Object
- Selecting Text
- Using Cut, Copy, and Paste
- Duplicating an Object
- Using the Clipboard Task Pane
- Oops! I Didn't Mean It (The Marvelous Undo Command)
- Working with Slide Layouts
- Deleting a Slide
- Duplicating a Slide
- Finding Text
- Replacing Text
- Rearranging Your Slides in Slide Sorter View
- Chapter 4. Working in Outline View
- Calling Up the Outline
- Selecting and Editing an Entire Slide
- Selecting and Editing One Paragraph
- Promoting and Demoting Paragraphs
- Adding a New Paragraph
- Adding a New Slide
- Moving Text Up and Down
- Collapsing and Expanding the Outline
- Chapter 5. Proofing Your Presentations
- Checking Spelling as You Go
- Spell Checking After the Fact
- Using the Thesaurus
- Capitalizing Correctly
- Using the AutoCorrect Feature
- Chapter 6. Don't Forget Your Notes!
- Understanding Notes
- Adding Notes to a Slide
- Adding an Extra Notes Page for a Slide
- Adding a New Slide from Notes Page View
- Printing Notes Pages
- Displaying Notes on a Separate Monitor
- Chapter 7. Show Time!
- The Quick Way to Print
- Printing from Backstage View
- Printing more than one copy
- Changing printers
- Printing part of a document
- Using Print Preview
- Setting Up a Slideshow
- Starting a Slideshow
- Working in Presenter View
- Controlling Your Presentation with the Keyboard and Mouse
- Using Presentation Tools
- Using the Laser Pointer feature
- Scribbling on your slides
- Rehearsing Your Slide Timings
- Using Custom Shows
- Creating a custom show
- Showing a custom show
- Hiding slides
- Showing Your Presentation Online
- Part 2. Creating Great-Looking Slides
- Chapter 8. All about Fonts and Text Formatting
- Changing the Look of Your Text
- Changing the size of characters
- Choosing text fonts
- Adding color to your text
- Adding shadows
- Big Picture Text Formatting
- Biting the bulleted list
- Creating numbered lists
- Setting tabs and indents
- Spacing out
- Lining things up
- Making columns
- Creating Fancy Text with WordArt
- Chapter 9. Designing Your Slides
- Looking at the Design Tab
- Working with Themes
- Applying themes
- Using theme colors
- Using theme fonts
- Applying theme effects
- Changing the Slide Size
- Applying Background Styles
- Using a gradient fill
- Using other background effects
- Using the Design Ideas Feature to Design Your Slides
- Chapter 10. Animating Your Slides
- Using the Transitions Tab
- Creating a slide transition
- Using the Morph transition effect
- Using the Animations Tab
- Using advanced animations
- Timing your animations
- Chapter 11. The Art of Inking Your Slides
- Drawing on Your Slides
- Using the Ruler
- Converting Windows Ink to Text
- Converting Windows Ink to Shapes
- Converting Windows Ink to a Math Formula
- Animating Windows Ink
- Chapter 12. Masters of the Universe Meet the Templates of Doom
- Working with Masters
- Modifying the slide master
- Modifying the handout master
- Modifying the notes master
- Using Masters
- Overriding the master text style
- Hiding background objects
- Using Headers and Footers
- Addinga date, number, or footer to slides
- Adding a header or footer to notes or handouts pages
- Editing the header and footer placeholders directly
- Yes, You Can Serve Two Masters
- Creating a new slide master
- Applying masters
- Preserving your masters
- Restoring Lost Placeholders
- Working with Templates
- Creating a new template
- Creating a presentation based on a template
- Working with Presentation Sections
- Part 3. Embellishing Your Slides
- Chapter 13. Inserting Pictures
- Exploring the Many Types of Pictures
- Bitmap pictures
- Victor, give me a vector
- Inserting Pictures in Your Presentation
- From the web
- From your computer
- From the stock library
- Moving, Sizing, Stretching, and Cropping Pictures
- Adding Style to Your Pictures
- Applying a picture border
- Applying picture effects
- Applying Artistic Effects
- Removing picture backgrounds
- Correcting Sharpness, Brightness, Contrast, and Color
- Compressing Your Pictures
- Working with 3D Models
- Chapter 14. Drawing on Your Slides
- Some General Drawing Tips
- Zooming in
- Displaying the ruler, gridlines, and guides
- Sticking to the color scheme
- Saving frequently
- Remembering Ctrl+Z
- Drawing Simple Objects
- Drawing straight lines
- Drawing rectangles, squares, ovals, and circles
- Creating Other Shapes
- Drawing a shape
- Drawing a polygon or free-form shape
- Drawing a curved line or shape
- Creating a text box
- Styling Your Shapes
- Setting the shape fill
- Setting the shape outline
- Applying shape effects
- Flipping and Rotating Objects
- Flipping an object
- Rotating an object 90 degrees
- Using the rotate handle
- Drawing a Complicated Picture
- Changing layers
- Line 'em up
- Using the grids and guides
- Group therapy
- Chapter 15. Charting for Fun and Profit
- Understanding Charts
- Adding a Chart to Your Presentation
- Adding a new slide with a chart
- Adding a chart to an existing slide
- Pasting a chart from Excel
- Changing the Chart Type
- Working with Chart Data
- Switching rows and columns
- Changing the data selection
- Editing the source data
- Refreshing a chart
- Changing the Chart Layout
- Changing the Chart Style
- Embellishing Your Chart
- Using Treemap and Sunburst Charts
- Using Map Charts
- Chapter 16. Working with SmartArt
- Understanding SmartArt
- Creating a SmartArt Diagram
- Tweaking a SmartArt Diagram
- Editing the SmartArt Text
- Working with Organization Charts
- Adding boxes to a chart
- Deleting chart boxes
- Changing the chart layout
- Chapter 17. Lights! Camera! Action! (Adding Sound and Video)
- Adding Sound to a Slide
- Investigating sound files
- Inserting an audio sound object
- Setting audio options
- Adding Video to Your Slides
- Finding a video to add to your presentation
- Inserting a video clip
- Setting video options
- Compressing Media
- Chapter 18. More Things to Insert on Your Slides
- Inserting Tables
- Creating a table in a Content placeholder
- Inserting a table on a slide
- Drawing a table
- Adding style to a table
- Working with the Layout tab
- Inserting WordArt
- Using Hyperlinks
- Creating a hyperlink to another slide
- Creating a hyperlink to another presentation or to a website
- Adding Action Buttons
- Assigning button actions
- Choosing button shapes
- Creating a button
- Creating a navigation toolbar
- Inserting Equations
- Inserting Icons
- Part 4. Working with Others
- Chapter 19. Collaborating on Presentations
- Understanding Collaboration
- Working with OneDrive
- Managing OneDrive features
- Sharing a OneDrive presentation
- Working with Teams
- Collaborating in Real Time
- Using Comments
- Chapter 20. Stealing Slides from Other Presentations
- Misdemeanor Slide Theft
- Building a Slide Repository
- Chapter 21. Exporting Your Presentation to Other Formats
- Creating a PDF File
- Crafting a Video
- Adding timings and narration
- Creating a video
- Creating an Animated GIF
- Packaging Your Presentation on a CD
- Creating Handouts in Microsoft Word
- Publishing a Presentation to Microsoft Stream
- Part 5. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 22. Ten PowerPoint Commandments
- I. Thou Shalt Frequently Savest Thy Work
- II. Thou Shalt Storeth Each Presentation in Its Proper Folder
- III. Thou Shalt Not Abuseth Thy Program's Formatting Features
- IV. Thou Shalt Not Stealeth Copyrighted Materials
- V. Thou Shalt Abideth by Thine Color Scheme, Auto-Layout, and Template
- VI. Thou Shalt Not Abuse Thine Audience with an Endless Array of Cute Animations or Funny Sounds
- VII. Keep Thy Computer Gurus Happy
- VIII. Thou Shalt Backeth Up Thy Files Day by Day
- IX. Thou Shalt Fear No Evil, for Ctrl+Z Is Always with Thee
- X. Thou Shalt Not Panic
- Chapter 23. Ten Tips for Creating Readable Slides
- Try Reading the Slide from the Back of the Room
- Avoid Small Text
- No More Than Five Bullets, Please
- Avoid Excessive Verbiage Lending to Excessively Lengthy Text That Is Not Only Redundant But Also Repetitive and Reiterative
- Use Consistent Wording
- Avoid Unsightly Color Combinations
- Watch the Line Endings
- Keep the Background Simple
- Use Only Two Levels of Bullets
- Avoid Bullets Altogether If You Can
- Keep Charts and Diagrams Simple
- Chapter 24. Ten Ways to Keep Your Audience Awake
- Don't Forget Your Purpose
- Don't Become a Slave to Your Slides
- Don't Overwhelm Your Audience with Unnecessary Detail
- Don't Neglect Your Opening
- Be Relevant
- Don't Forget the Call to Action
- Practice, Practice, Practice
- Relax!
- Expect the Unexpected
- Don't Be Boring
- Index