Microsoft 365: PowerPoint Beginner (2023): Creating a Presentation

Name: Microsoft 365: PowerPoint Beginner (2023): Creating a Presentation
Author: Deanna Schmuck

Learn how to build a slide deck and how to format slides consistently with images and videos

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Hello, my name is Deanna and in these lessons you will learn how to build a slide deck, how to format slides to create a consistent feel, how to insert photos, hyperlinks and videos. In this lesson I will show you how to build slides using slide layouts and how to insert new slides. Let's begin with a new blank PowerPoint and we will create a small slide deck. While looking at slide layouts and how to insert new slides, there are some general rules or guides when creating slides. Just a few of these to consider as we work are to keep the text on slides to keywords and phrases. In other words, not sentences. Keep it simple. Do not overwhelm your audience with too much text or too many graphics. The first slide layout is automatically the title slide. We have one slide. The slide layout is the title slide. We have a spot to put our title and a placeholder or a spot to put our subtitle. So let me go ahead and get some text entered. There's my title. Now I'm going to click in my Subtitle placeholder box to enter the subtitle so we can move these placeholders around if we would want to just by clicking on the border that defines the placeholder and dragging it around. So moving on, we're going to insert a new slide. So you can insert new slides a couple of different ways either through the home tab on the menu bar or through the Insert tab on the menu bar. So this time I'm going to pick the title and Content slide layout. The Title and Content slide layout has a spot for a title and then a placeholder for content such as a bulleted list. So I'm going to click on Title and Content and that will start slide two over here for me. And then slide two is the current slide in the main window. Okay, I'm going to look at my placeholders. I have a placeholder for a title and then a placeholder for content or text. And you may notice here that it already starts a bulleted list for us. So I'm going to click to add the title. Okay, now I'm going to click in the content placeholder and add some text. After my first line of text is entered, if I hit the enter key, notice that the bullet continues onto the next line. And again if I enter, the bullet continues. But this time I want to move my level in. I want to increase the indent. So I want to create a multilevel list. What I want to do here is press the tab key and pressing the tab key when you see that bullet is going to shift it in just a little bit for us. Okay, so I have a couple of lines of text. If I enter again, let's say I am ready to move back a little bit to the left so that my next bullet lines up with raise and efforts. What I can do at this point is Shift tab and I type some text at that level. So one thing that you want to remember when you're doing multiple level list is tab will move you to the right, shift Tab will move you to the left. Now, I don't want this word text here. We were just using it as an example. So I'm just going to simply backspace a couple of times. Okay, let's insert another new slide. Remember, we can go to the menu bar and we can either go to the Insert tab or to the Home tab. I'm going to stay here under the Home tab. I'm going to go to new slide, and this time I will pick title only. This title only slide layout gives you just a spot for a title and there is no other placeholder. Here, let me click on that. So that automatically starts slide three for me. So let's pretend that that's not the slide layout that I wanted. I want you to see that you can go ahead and go and change that very easily if I go to home and instead of new slide, because we don't want to slide four yet, we want to stay on slide three. So instead of new slide, we're going to go to layout. If I click on layout, I'm going to see my slide layout options again. This time let's look at two content. So the two content slide layout is going to give you a place for a title and then two boxes for content. So let's select two content and notice because we changed the layout, not a new slide, I am still staying on slide three. So let me get some text in. Here's my title. So we have a couple bulleted lines. I am going to remove the bullet for just this first line review on June 30. So there are a couple ways I could do that. One quick way is to just click right before the word review and backspace because that's more of like a heading for that grouping. Okay, let's move over and build some text in the second placeholder for content on the right. Okay, here we've got our second content list. And just like I did in the first one, I am going to remove the bullet from the first line by just backspacing. I'm going to also do a little formatting here. I'm going to select review on June 30, and I'm going to apply bold, and I'll do the same over here. Okay, that looks pretty good. So to finish out this lesson, I want to show you that a slide does not have to be inserted at the very end. Slides can be inserted between existing slides. So let's say I would like a new slide two. I'm going to click on the very first slide in my slide thumbnail pane. And now I'm going to go to home new slide and I can pick any slide layout I want. And you'll see that I have a new slide two, and then everything else shifted down. So a new slide will be inserted below the active selected slide. Stay tuned for the next lesson, where I will show you how to format text, color, size and Thank you for watching.

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Course Description

PowerPoint helps users communicate facts, ideas, and figures in easily understood visuals. This can enhance a presentation because people’s learning styles vary. This makes PowerPoint an effective tool for communicating new information to a variety of audiences. PowerPoint visuals highlight the main points you are trying to communicate in an efficient and interesting way.

Additionally, you can use continuity or consistency among slides for a professional-looking presentation. With PowerPoint, you do not have to be an expert designer to create professional-looking slides because the tools are provided for you within the software. In this course on Creating a Presentation, you will learn how to enhance basic slides by building a slide deck and learning how to format slides attractively and consistently, as well as how to insert images, hyperlinks, and videos. By the end of this course, you will be able to create a presentation that engages your audience.

What You'll Learn

Build a slide deck to create a complete presentation
Format slides for a consistent, professional-looking feel
Insert images, hyperlinks, and videos using the Insert tab
Understand PowerPoint design principles
Create a presentation that engages your audience

Key Takeaways

PowerPoint helps users communicate facts, ideas, and figures in easily understood visuals.
PowerPoint visuals highlight the main points you want to communicate in an efficient and interesting way.
Using continuity and consistency among slides produces a professional-looking presentation.
The software provides the design tools, so you do not have to be an expert designer to create professional-looking slides.
This course teaches enhancing basic slides by building a slide deck, formatting slides attractively and consistently, and inserting images, hyperlinks, and videos.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will learn how to enhance basic slides by building a slide deck, formatting slides attractively and consistently, and inserting images, hyperlinks, and videos to create a presentation that engages your audience.

What topics or lessons does this course cover?

The course covers three lessons: Build a Slide Deck, Format Slides for a Consistent Feel, and Explore the Insert Tab.

Do I need to be an expert designer to take this course?

No. The PowerPoint tools are provided within the software, so you do not have to be an expert designer to create professional-looking slides.

What skills does this course help me develop?

It helps build skills in Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Presenter, presentation graphics, presentation software, presentation training, and Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) - PowerPoint.

What are the learning objectives of this course?

The objectives are to understand PowerPoint design, explain how to format slides, and describe how to use PowerPoint.