77-729 Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Certification

Launch PowerPoint and explore templates and themes; master the ribbon with tabs home, insert, and design. See how inserting shapes or tables reveals tabs and backstage view to save presentations.

Learn how to use PowerPoint's file tab and backstage view to save and manage your work, including choosing save locations, naming files, and understanding save options.

Explore the Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 user interface, including the ribbon and quick access toolbar. Learn to customize commands, use slide navigation, spell check, notes, views, and zoom.

Create a new presentation by selecting a template or blank layout, use title and subtitle placeholders, customize fonts and colors, and apply themes to format slides in PowerPoint.

Learn to select and apply PowerPoint templates from the New backstage view, explore themes and variances, and create presentations using templates, sample slides, and content placeholders.

Learn to format a Word document as an outline and import it into PowerPoint to create slides, mapping heading levels to titles and bullets.

Create a new PowerPoint 2016 presentation, save as .pptx in a folder, apply the quotable template with a green theme, and set a title and content slide in Arial 32.

Learn how to insert new slides using layouts, duplicate slides to reuse content, and hide or delete slides, using shortcuts and the navigation pane to manage a PowerPoint presentation.

Learn how to insert new slides with different layouts in PowerPoint 2016, switch layouts from the home tab, and manage placeholder changes that affect titles, subtitles, and text boxes.

Modify individual slide backgrounds by using the format background pane, applying gradient shading, and adjusting angle, stops, and brightness, with options to add a second color from the color palette.

Modify individual slide backgrounds by applying rgb color values, eyedropper color matching, transparency, gradient or solid fills, picture or texture fills, pattern fills, and adjust foreground and background colors.

Learn to insert headers, footers, and page numbers in PowerPoint 2016, customize date and time formats, apply to slides, notes, or handouts, and control visibility on the title slide.

Create a new PowerPoint 2016 presentation from a blue template, add content slides, import the university list, apply the droplets blue theme, customize backgrounds, insert header and date, and save.

Explore how the slide master and layout masters control colors, fonts, backgrounds, and placeholders, and apply themes to update all slides consistently across a PowerPoint 2016 presentation.

Modify slide master content by editing the title and content placeholders, applying font and background changes, and inserting logos to reflect changes across all layouts.

learn to create and customize slide layouts from scratch using slide masters, insert and modify placeholders, name layouts, and format quotations with italics and right-aligned author.

Explore creating and modifying slide layouts by editing placeholders, adjusting font attributes, and aligning text in the master view, then apply the content with 4 pictures layout.

Modify the handout master in PowerPoint 2016 to tailor audience handouts, adjusting placeholders, slides per page, orientation, backgrounds, and adding a logo with contact info.

Modify the notes master in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 to customize notes pages, formats, backgrounds, and placeholders, and manage the notes pane and per-slide notes pages for speaker notes.

Modify slide master with the parallax theme, insert and position pictures, adjust bullets, set style 10 with gradient fill, and create a teacher details layout with a centered Chiller title.

Learn to use PowerPoint sections to organize slides into collapsible groups, track ownership, and manage large presentations, including creating, renaming, moving, and applying themes to sections.

Create and rename sections such as intro, progress, and reports in a PowerPoint project. Move, collapse, and duplicate slides, remove sections to merge slides, and print only the report section.

Change slide size in PowerPoint 2016 by switching between widescreen (16:9) and standard (4:3), selecting maximize, ensure fit, or custom sizes to prevent content cutoffs across the presentation.

Explore PowerPoint 2016 views, including normal, slide sorter, reading, outline, and slideshow, and learn to manage notes, comments, and grayscale or black and white printing options.

Explore how PowerPoint 2016 sets and uses file properties and metadata to describe a presentation, including title, tags, categories, author, dates, and custom properties.

Walk through PowerPoint 2016 domain exercises 1.5.1 to 1.5.3, resize slides to A3 landscape, add a key points section, switch to outline view, and apply black-and-white and inverse grayscale.

Print all or selected slides, ranges, or sections from a PowerPoint presentation. Configure copies, printer, slides per page, hidden slides, color or grayscale, and header and footer details.

Learn to print notes pages and handouts in color, grayscale, or black and white, customize notes master, headers, and footers, and preview layouts before printing.

Create and manage custom slide shows for pilots training, baggage handlers, and catering staff by selecting slides and naming shows, then start from the current slide or beginning.

Rehearse slide timings to gauge content against a time slot and record per-slide durations. Learn to adjust transitions, test timings, and record narration and annotations for delivery.

Present a slide show with Presenter View across two monitors or a single screen, keeping notes on your laptop while the audience sees only slides.

Configure grayscale print of airlines training presentation with multiple slides per page, duplex, portrait orientation, using a 19.5 by 25.4 slide size; save annotations and create a baggage handlers show.

Learn to insert text on slides via placeholders in PowerPoint, including selecting, deleting, and moving text, and using cut, copy, paste with options such as keep text only.

Apply and customize text formatting in PowerPoint with the Home font options, adjusting font, size, bold, italics, underline, color, case, spacing, kerning, and the eyedropper.

Apply paragraph formatting to control alignment, indentation, line and paragraph spacing, tab stops, bullets, and numbering, and explore text direction, rotation, and placeholder formatting for PowerPoint slides.

Apply WordArt styles to text by inserting WordArt, selecting a style, and formatting with fill, outline, shadow, reflections, glow, and transform options for three-dimensional effects.

Format text into multiple columns in PowerPoint, adjust the number of columns and spacing in the column dialog box, and fine-tune placeholder size to improve slide readability.

Create and format bulleted and numbered lists in PowerPoint 2016 to present information clearly; customize bullets, numbering, colors, fonts, and nesting for structured slides.

Create and manage hyperlinks in PowerPoint 2016 by linking text or objects to slides, documents, websites, or email, then edit, test, and customize hyperlink colors.

Practice PowerPoint 2016 domain exercises 2.1 by creating slides, transferring content with source formatting, and applying fonts, spacing, bullets, alignment, and hyperlinks.