Complete PowerPoint and Public Speaking with AI

Project PowerPoint slides in the room and view them from the back to ensure visibility. Record your presentation on video and look at it until you love what you see.

Download and install PowerPoint by visiting www.microsoft.com, navigating to office, then PowerPoint, and selecting get it now with office 365 (30-day evaluation).

Access or start PowerPoint on Windows using the Start menu, the Search menu, a saved file, or a desktop shortcut, and pin to the taskbar or Start for quick access.

Explore selecting PowerPoint slide templates from online templates or using a blank presentation, then customize slides, delete unwanted slides, and apply design ideas.

Create your first PowerPoint slide by starting with a blank presentation, adding titles and subtitles, and manipulating text boxes. Learn resizing, rotating, deleting, copying, and launching the slideshow.

Master editing essentials in PowerPoint, from the clipboard and slides to font, paragraph, drawing, editing, and designer, guided by the home menu ribbon.

Master cut, copy, paste, and duplicate, plus format painter in PowerPoint, using keyboard shortcuts and paste options, including destination theme or picture formats, to ensure consistent fonts and colors.

Explore slide options in PowerPoint, including adding new slides with different layouts, duplicating slides, and reusing or importing slides from an outline.

discover how to use slide layout, reset, and sections in PowerPoint, including right-click shortcuts and sub-menu keys, to manage slides and sections efficiently.

Master font formatting in PowerPoint, including sizes, bold, italic, underline, shadow, strikethrough, spacing, and case options, with keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl-B, Ctrl-I, Ctrl-U.

Learn to change font sizes with simple clicks, clear formatting, highlight text, and change text color in PowerPoint using quick controls and right-click options.

Master PowerPoint paragraph formatting by applying bullets and numbering, adjusting list levels, and tweaking line spacing. Align or justify text for professional, polished slides.

Learn to enhance slides by adding or removing columns in a text box, adjust text direction and alignment, and convert text to smart art to craft professional, visually engaging presentations.

Explore PowerPoint shapes, including text boxes, circles, squares, and arrows, plus lines and rectangles. Learn to customize color, fill, and outlines, and to connect shapes for diagrams.

Explore how to arrange and format PowerPoint objects, including ordering, bringing to front or back, grouping and aligning multiple objects, and applying quick styles.

Learn to fill shapes and outline them, using color options, transparency, eyedropper, inserting pictures inside shapes, and applying gradients, textures, border weight, and dash styles.

Learn to apply shape effects and format shapes in PowerPoint, using shadow, reflection, glow, and 3D rotation, and fine-tune fills, lines, and textures through the format shape pane.

Find text across the entire PowerPoint presentation, replace text or fonts, and use the selection pane to locate and select objects, including those behind the text.

Learn how to insert shapes and apply shape styles using the shape format menu in PowerPoint. Explore editing shapes, text boxes, and applying fills, outlines, and effects.

Explore the shape format menu, focusing on word art styles and accessibility. Apply word art styles, adjust text fills, outlines, and effects, and add accessibility captions.

Explore inserting tables, images, illustrations, add-ins, links, comments, text, symbols, media, and picture formatting in PowerPoint slides.

Explore how to insert various objects using PowerPoint’s insert menu and slide themes, including tables, charts, smart art, 3d models, pictures, videos, and icons, with quick tips for text placeholders.

Explore new slide themes and options, including adding a new slide, selecting slide types, duplicating slides, creating slides from an outline, and reusing slides.

Insert a table in PowerPoint by selecting rows and columns, drawing a table, or inserting an Excel spreadsheet, then use Excel features like autosum in PowerPoint.

Explore how to format PowerPoint tables with design options, including table styles, header and total rows, branded rows and columns, shading, word art styles, borders, and drawing borders.

Explore PowerPoint table layout essentials, including gridlines, borders, row/column operations, merge and split cells, size and align cells, and arrange table positioning.

insert an Excel table into PowerPoint by using insert > object > create from file, browse to the file, and insert without linking to display the table in the slide.

Insert pictures from your computer, online pictures via Bing, and screenshots to enliven PowerPoint slides. Create a photo album to display pictures, choose fit to slide layouts, and add titles.

Learn to use PowerPoint's insert menu to add shapes, icons, 3D models, SmartArt, and charts, turning text into visual illustrations that enhance understanding.

Explore add-ins in PowerPoint, plug-ins that add features from the Microsoft Store, and manage my add-ins, including examples like Pixton characters and WinZip Express for Office.

Master zoom in PowerPoint’s links: create a summary zoom to condense all slides on one slide, a section zoom for a section, and a slide zoom for individual slides.

Explore how to create and manage links in PowerPoint using the insert menu, linking text, images, or objects to files, slides, or external URLs.

Learn to add and view comments in PowerPoint using the insert menu, attach notes to slide objects, and track edits by who changed what and when in editing mode.

Learn to insert and format text box, header and footer, word art, date and time, slide number, and embedded objects in PowerPoint, with tips on update automatically and apply all.

Navigate PowerPoint's insert menu to add equations and symbols. Explore the equation and symbol submenus, predefined formulas, ink equation, and format shape options in PowerPoint.

Insert videos into slides from online URLs or from your PC using the media menu, and play them during your presentation to enhance your explanation.

Learn to add action to objects in PowerPoint using the insert links menu, covering action on click, mouse over, hyperlinks to slides or URLs, and running programs or macros.

Insert audio from your PC to pictures or text objects and play it during a slideshow. Record your own narration, attach the audio, and configure display and playback options.

Record your screen and audio in PowerPoint with screen recording, then insert the clip directly into your slide by selecting the capture area.

Remove a picture background in PowerPoint using the picture format menu. Use mark area to keep or mark area to remove, and choose keep changes or discard all changes.

Explore picture format adjustments by applying correction, color, artistic effects, and transparency. Learn to sharpen and adjust brightness and contrast, manage saturation and recolor, apply artistic effects, and set transparency.

Compress, change, and reset pictures in PowerPoint using the picture format adjust menu, including applying changes to one or all pictures, deleting cropped areas, and adjusting resolution.

Explore picture style, border, effects, and layout within the picture format menu to enhance images with frames, borders, shadows, reflections, and layout options.

Explore picture accessibility and arrangement in the picture format, including alt text for screen readers, and arrange tools: bring forward, send backward, selection pane, align, group, and rotate.

Hover to preview PowerPoint themes from the design tab and compare appearances. Save, browse, and import custom themes, then apply a theme across all slides.

Explore the variants tool in PowerPoint's design menu to customize colors, fonts, effects, and background styles. See how changes apply to selected objects and entire slides.

Explore the designer feature and design ideas in PowerPoint, learn to access design options from design or home menus, and automatically generate professional slide layouts.

Explore slide-to-slide transitions, manage timing, and preview effects in PowerPoint within the transition menu section, mastering how to move from one slide to another.

Master slide transitions in PowerPoint using subtle, exciting, and dynamic effects such as morph and fade. Apply transitions to destination slides, preview results, and tailor timing for engaging presentations.

Master timing to automate slide transitions, add sound with adjustable duration, and apply these settings to all slides for a smooth, engaging PowerPoint show.

Explore how to animate slide objects with entrance, emphasis, and exit effects in PowerPoint, showing how objects appear, are emphasized, and disappear, and how this differs from slide transitions.

Master motion paths and additional effects in PowerPoint, including straight lines, arcs, and custom paths, with real-time previews and path adjustments for versatile slide animations.

Explore motion path animation for shapes in PowerPoint by building a left-to-right workflow with squares, arrows, ovals, and triangles, using fade, fly-in, and line path effects to illustrate the process.

Learn to animate pictures, videos, and audio alongside text objects using effects like fade, wipe, spin, pulse, and fly-in, and control the animation order.

Time animated objects and automate their slide appearances using duration, delay, and order with previous or after previous, applying effects like fade, fly in, float in, and split.

Learn how to sequence and reorder objects in a PowerPoint slide animation using fade, adjust order by paragraph or on click options, and fine-tune the exact order and timing.

Learn to remove a fade animation from objects by selecting the animation and choosing none, or using the delete key on the animation order, removing only the targeted animation.

Learn to apply multiple animations to a single object in PowerPoint, including paragraph-level highlighting and sequential effects, using advanced animation to reveal characters like Jerry, George, Cosmo, and Elaine.

Explore advanced PowerPoint animation with the animation pane, triggers, and animation painter, learning to manage timing, order, and on-click effects for dynamic slides.

Explore the slideshow menu, learn how to start the slideshow, set it up, and view slides on different monitors.

Learn how to set up a PowerPoint slideshow and hide slides, and explore advanced options like show type, kiosk full screen, loop until escape, narration, and window mode.

Learn to time your PowerPoint with rehearse timing: practice slide durations from start to finish, capture time spent per slide, and automate transitions for a polished presentation.

Record slideshow lets you narrate and capture slide-by-slide, unlike screen recording; choose from current slide or from the beginning, use pen and timing, and replay.

Enable narrations, timings, and media controls in the slideshow setup to control playback, timing, and on-slide video interactions.

Learn to use multiple monitors and presenter view in PowerPoint to manage notes, next slides, and on-screen tools like taskbar, zoom, pen, and see all slides, with Alt+F5.

Explore the review menu in this new section, covering proofing, accessibility, insight, language, comments, compare, and ink to improve PowerPoint and public speaking with AI.

Explore proofing, accessibility, and insight in PowerPoint's review tools, covering spelling, thesaurus, accessibility checks, and smart lookup to improve accuracy and clarity.

Explore the language submenu in PowerPoint to translate text, set proofing language, and manage language preference and add languages for spell check.

Learn how to compare two presentations, review differences, and accept or reject changes to merge slides. Use the reviewing pane and previous/next navigation to end the review and finalize updates.

Add INC annotations during a PowerPoint presentation, then hide, unhide, or delete INC on slides. Navigate review INC options, keep or discard, using the pen or eraser during a slideshow.

Explore PowerPoint view menu essentials, including presentation views, master views, show, zoom, color, grayscale, window, and macros.

Explore presentation views from the view menu, including normal view, outline view, slide sorter, notes pane, and reading view, and understand editing versus reading modes.

Explore ruler, gridlines, guides, and notes in the PowerPoint view menu to align objects precisely, control movement, and set slide layouts.

Learn to apply color, grayscale, and black-and-white across an entire PowerPoint presentation from the view menu, ensuring consistent slide styling.

Explore PowerPoint's view menu windows: open new windows, arrange all, cascade, move split, and switch between windows, while working on the same presentation across panes.