
Advance your PowerPoint 2019 skills by mastering slide masters, templates, and themes, adding tables, charts, multimedia, and morph transition, then finalize, annotate, and distribute professional presentations.
Meet the instructor, a 20-year IT veteran and Microsoft certified trainer, familiar with office apps since Office 97, guiding you through Office 2019 with Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Explore how to customize design templates in PowerPoint by modifying slide masters and layouts, and tailor notes and handout masters, headers, and footers for a unique, professional presentation.
Modify slide masters and slide layouts to instantly customize the look of all slides, using templates you can save and reuse across presentations.
Explore slide masters in PowerPoint 2019, which control layout, text placement, formatting, color schemes, and effects across all slides; manage multiple masters and edit them in the slide master view.
Access the slide master view from the left-hand tab on the ribbon to create, rename, delete slide masters and layouts, manage content placeholders, headers, footers, and themes, then close.
Explore creating and editing slide masters in PowerPoint 2019, apply themes across all layouts, adjust placeholders and backgrounds, insert logos, and save your edits as a reusable template.
Create and customize slide layouts in the slide master view to control content placeholders and on-screen elements. Changes to layouts update in the new slide menu.
Create and apply a custom theme, a combination of colors, fonts, and effects, to slides, slide masters, and layouts, and save them for reuse in customs section of themes galleries.
Design slide masters to define elements across slides; use guides for layout consistency; avoid deleting standard layouts; keep title, header, and footer placeholders for pasting; save as a .potx template.
Create a custom slide layout in the slide master view for PowerPoint 2019 by adding a media layout with media, text, and image placeholders, then save and apply the template.
Learn to modify the notes master and the handout master to control printed materials and slide layouts, saving time by configuring outputs ahead of printing.
The notes master controls the layout and style of printed notes pages, like slide master, defining placement, formatting, orientation, and content, including header, date, notes pane, footer, and page number.
Explore the handout master and its alignment with the notes master, focusing on handout content and placement. Learn to adjust formatting styles and make custom edits as needed.
Modify notes masters and handout masters by adjusting layout, font size to sixteen point five, and slides-per-page to three, then close and print with the updated templates.
Add headers and footers to your slides to automatically include information like the date on printed materials, reducing repetitious tasks and leveraging PowerPoint's header and footer options.
Learn to add footers and headers in PowerPoint 2019 advanced, including presenter name, date, page numbers, and logos, with footers at the bottom and headers at the top for handouts.
Explore the header and footer dialog box in PowerPoint 2019 advanced to add and configure headers and footers via the slide tab and notes and handouts tab.
Add headers and footers via the slide master in PowerPoint 2019, with slide numbers and a footer; apply to all and save the template for printing and notes pages.
Explore customizing design templates in PowerPoint by using master views and reusable custom themes to save time, ensuring professional, consistent presentations across projects.
Use ink to hand draw elements on your PowerPoint 2019 presentations, leveraging a robust toolset to create and modify custom drawings. Explore adding mathematical equations when beneficial for visuals.
Explore drawing objects using the ink feature to draw on slides and create presentations that stand out.
Enable the draw tab on the ribbon to access drawing tools, and use pens, pencils, and highlighters with colors, thicknesses, and special effects to draw with a mouse or touch.
Use the draw tab to draw on slides with pens, stencils, and convert tools. Convert hand drawn shapes into PowerPoint shapes, and hand drawn math equations into text.
Explore PowerPoint 2019 advanced drawing with ink on touch screens or mice; customize the ribbon to add the draw tab, choose pens, and convert ink to text or shapes.
Master writing math equations in PowerPoint by drawing them with a finger or pointing device, letting PowerPoint convert them to typed format.
Explore the insert equation feature to add math equations from the gallery, and write them by hand using ink equation.
The equation contextual tab appears when you select an equation, enabling insertion, handwriting, and customization, with 2d or 1d formats and gallery structures like fractions and matrices.
Open the ink equation dialog box to write equations in your own handwriting with a touch device, mouse, or touchpad. Preview the equations as you write.
Learn to insert and edit math equations in PowerPoint 2019 using equation and symbols options. Use ink equation with the math input control to write and insert your own equations.
Explore ink tools to hand draw elements and write math equations in PowerPoint slides, using virtual drawing features to save you time and create objects efficiently.
Learn to add and format tables in PowerPoint, including inserting tables from other Microsoft Office applications, to present sales figures, budget information, and financial data clearly.
Create clear tables to organize numerical data for easy reading and interpretation. PowerPoint makes inserting tables into a presentation simple to highlight key information.
Explore how a table serves as a container for numerical data, organized into vertical columns and horizontal rows, with cells holding text or numbers, including decimals and currency.
Choose from PowerPoint 2019 table creation options, including inserting a grid table, the insert table dialog to set rows and columns, drawing a table, or inserting an Excel spreadsheet.
Navigate PowerPoint 2019 tables using tab or right arrow to move right, shift tab or left arrow to move left, and up or down arrows to traverse cells.
Learn to create tables in PowerPoint with the insert tab, insert a four-column table, paste Excel data, and adjust alignment, font size, and basic layout.
Format PowerPoint 2019 tables to enhance clarity and visual appeal using formatting options, and add graphical elements to align tables with the overall presentation.
Explore the table design tab to format PowerPoint tables with table style options for header rows, banded rows, and first or last columns, shading, borders, effects, and word art.
Select a table to access the layout tab and format its structure, including grid lines visibility, insert or delete rows and columns, and merge or split cells.
Explore applying preformatted table styles from the table styles gallery in PowerPoint 2019, using quick styles with live preview that shows changes on hover before you apply.
Select the inserted table and use the layout tab to size and center content, and adjust cell margins. Apply a style to match the theme after inserting data.
Learn how to insert a table from Word or Excel into PowerPoint, saving development effort and ensuring a consistent look across documentation.
Choose linking or embedding to insert objects from files in PowerPoint, storing data in source file or in presentation; linked objects reflect source changes, while embedded objects do not.
The insert object dialog box lets you insert objects or text from another file into your presentation, choose embedding or linking, and browse or create content in a new file.
Insert an Excel worksheet into PowerPoint 2019 by using the create from file option, link the objects for automatic updates, and adjust size and placement from the format tools.
Insert and format tables in PowerPoint to display numerical data, such as budgets and sales, and learn when to import tables from Excel or Word to match your presentation design.
Learn to create and format charts in PowerPoint to display numerical data visually, and insert charts from Excel alongside tables for effective presentations.
Create a chart in PowerPoint 2019 and explore a variety of chart types. Tailor the charts to best suit the specific needs of your presentation.
Create and interpret charts in PowerPoint 2019 by using titles, legends, and data tables to show relationships among numbers, with the option to hide chart elements.
Insert a chart and PowerPoint launches an Excel worksheet with sample data that populates the chart and is saved with the PowerPoint file.
Explore how the insert chart dialog box helps you choose the best chart type and subtype for your presentation, matching visuals to your data and audience needs.
Explore chart types in PowerPoint, including column and bar charts for data over time on the x axis and y axis, and pie charts for percentages.
Demonstrates creating charts in PowerPoint 2019 advanced, inserting cluster column charts, and editing data in a mini Excel editor to update linked files and reflect changes.
Format charts in PowerPoint to match the presentation style, insert charts from Excel, and save chart formatting as a template to speed up future work.
Explore the chart design tab in PowerPoint 2019 to modify chart style, edit data, and apply layouts, colors, and effects, while learning how layout, style, and type determine what appears.
Explore the format tab, a contextual tab with commands to change the appearance of objects, format the selected object, insert or modify shapes, and apply shape and word art styles.
Learn to insert and select charts, use three quick access buttons to display chart elements like labels, titles, and gridlines, apply chart styles, and filter data to show specific information.
Explore how chart layouts control which elements appear, such as labels, titles, and legends. Learn to quickly apply quick layouts for chart types and customize individual elements for precise visuals.
Apply chart styles to customize colors, background, and effects, then modify individual elements or use a reconfigured style to personalize charts.
Learn to format and customize charts in PowerPoint 2019 using the design and format tabs, edit titles with word art, adjust data, and modify chart area.
Learn how to insert an existing chart from Microsoft Excel into PowerPoint, and compare linking versus embedding to control updates reflected in the presentation.
Insert an Excel chart into PowerPoint by copying from Excel and pasting into the slide, choosing to keep source formatting or link data for updates.
Add charts to PowerPoint to enhance visual appeal and clarify numerical data from tables; learn creating, formatting, and laying out various chart styles, and inserting Excel charts.
Explore how to add, edit, and customize audio, video, and screen recordings in PowerPoint 2019 to deliver engaging multimedia presentations.
Add audio to a presentation by inserting from computer files or recording directly on slides, boosting energy and impact in your PowerPoint presentations.
Explore the various audio file formats supported by PowerPoint, from mp3 and wav to midi and wma, and understand how compression affects presentation size and streaming.
Learn to use audio and video controls in PowerPoint 2019 to play clips from slides and automate playback so you don’t have to click.
Use bookmarks as graphical markers in the timeline of audio or video clips to quickly locate playback points, trim start and end times, and trigger animations in PowerPoint 2019.
Explore the playback tab in PowerPoint 2019 advanced to edit audio, preview, trim, fade, adjust volume, add bookmarks, and control where and when audio plays.
Use the trim audio dialog box to set start and end points, drag markers to define the portion you want, and create bookmarks for the chosen segment.
Learn to add audio to a PowerPoint presentation by inserting audio, trimming segments, applying fade in and out, adjusting volume, and choosing automatic or on-click playback.
Learn to add video to a PowerPoint 2019 presentation by inserting saved video files or embedding web-based videos, including YouTube, to enhance your slides.
Learn common video file formats and how to add videos from YouTube or Vimeo via url or from your pc, including swf, wmv, mpeg, mp4, and mov.
Explore how to format videos in PowerPoint 2019 using the video format tab to adjust color, borders, shadows, glows, and 3D effects, and to arrange and resize on slides.
Explore poster frames for video previews in PowerPoint, learn to set a poster frame from the video or insert an existing file, such as a logo.
Learn how to add video to a PowerPoint presentation by inserting from file or online sources like YouTube and Vimeo, then adjust size, position, playback, poster frame, and mute.
Explore the playback tab to edit video and set playback options in slides, including preview, bookmarks, fade in/out, trim, full screen, and adding captions from caption files.
Configure PowerPoint 2019 video playback with bookmarks, auto play, full screen, and volume, then trim clips and apply fade in/out before saving.
Learn how to add a screen recording to enrich presentations by incorporating externally created videos and recording computer actions for visual demonstrations.
Record a portion of your screen, capture actions and narration, and insert the resulting video with audio controls directly into your PowerPoint presentation for demonstrations.
Demo shows how to add a screen recording in PowerPoint 2019, including selecting an area, recording, and inserting it as a video with poster frames and playback options.
Explore advanced media tools in PowerPoint 2019: insert and format audio and video, add online videos, and capture screen recordings to enhance your presentations.
Master advanced transitions and animations in PowerPoint 2019, including the morph transition and custom animation options to emphasize key points and engage audiences.
Explore the morph transition in PowerPoint 2019 and discover how its power redefines what you can create, expanding what’s possible in slide design.
Demonstrate morph transitions by duplicating a slide, editing the second slide's attributes such as position, size, color, or rotation, and applying morph for seamless, dynamic emphasis with shapes and charts.
Learn the morph naming scheme in PowerPoint 2019 advanced: name objects on slides with the same name starting with two exclamation points to morph from one to the other.
Explore text morphing in PowerPoint 2019 advanced, revealing the anagram effect that fades unused letters, repositions shared letters, and introduces new ones, plus a smoky transition using merge shapes.
Demonstrate the morph transition in PowerPoint 2019 by morphing shapes and merging objects, with steps to insert and arrange shapes and observe auto-advancing slides at two seconds.
Customize and apply highly tailored animations to objects in PowerPoint 2019, using advanced effects to highlight key points, energize the audience, and tailor delivery to any presentation situation.
Master the PowerPoint animation pane to reorder, time, configure, and remove slide animations, preview with play all or play from, and navigate by entrance, emphasis, and exit categories.
Use the effect options dialog box to customize animations, including start, duration, delay, repetition, sound, appearance after the effect, and text animation by paragraph, letter, or all at once.
Create custom animation combinations with the add animation command to apply multiple effects to one object, then use the animation pane and options to control timing and delays.
Draw a motion path from a start point to an end point, using drawn or reconfigured paths. Then adjust timing and effects in the animation pane to dynamically illustrate processes.
Animate complex objects in PowerPoint 2019 using the effect options dialog to animate smart art and charts as objects or in portions, ideal for presenting data in charts and tables.
Apply custom animation effects in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2019 advanced. Use entrance effects, zoom, sound, and the animation pane to adjust timing and apply the same settings across slides.
Explore advanced transitions and animations in PowerPoint 2019, focusing on the morph transition to metamorphose an object across slides and combining animations via the animation pane to emphasize key elements.
Collaborate to finalize a PowerPoint presentation by choosing a delivery role, annotating slides for real-time delivery, managing transitions, and creating printed, narrated, and timed versions to suit different scenarios.
Collaborate on a presentation in PowerPoint by tracking and merging changes from multiple authors, reducing version chaos and saving time. Learn techniques to manage edits and incorporate contributions efficiently.
Explore PowerPoint 2019 advanced comments for collaboration, providing feedback on slides without altering content, attaching to letters, words, or objects, and noting that comments don’t appear in slides or print.
View and manage slide comments within the comments pane, add, edit, review, reply to, and delete comments, while they do not appear in the slideshow.
Add and manage comments in PowerPoint 2019, show the comments pane, create new comments with your name, edit them, and save changes for reviewers.
Use the compare group to compare and merge two presentation versions, review edits in the revisions pane, and accept or reject changes before finalizing.
Discover how the revisions pane lets you compare two versions of a presentation, merge selected elements, and decide to accept or reject differences.
compare and merge two PowerPoint presentations using the review tab, inspect revisions in the revisions pane, and accept or reject changes to produce a merged file.
Annotate a presentation during a live delivery by marking up slides, highlighting text, and drawing arrows. Use touch screens and smart screen TVs to enhance on-screen interactions.
Explore presenter view in PowerPoint 2019, showing notes pages and upcoming slide previews, timer controls (pause and restart), and audience view, with blackout, navigation, zoom, and annotation tools.
Explore PowerPoint annotations to highlight content with arrows, laser pointers, pens, and highlighters, customize ink colors, erase marks, and save your annotations when closing.
Explore the annotation tools covered earlier, review visibility and pointer options, and see all of these tools demonstrated in action at the bottom.
Annotate a presentation during slide show using pen tools, color, and width options. Erase ink, drag annotations, and decide to keep or discard them when exiting.
Record a presentation by rehearsing slide timings and adding narration with a microphone, creating a user independent presentation you can deliver in multiple places.
Use the rehearse timings feature to track slide timing as you practice, automatically set timings without narration via the recording shortcut menu, and view timings in the slides Sauder view.
Use the recording shortcut menu to capture presentation timing during rehearsal, view current slide times as an indicator, and navigate with next, pause, or repeat.
The record slide show dialog box offers a full screen interface to record slideshow with audio or video narration, and you can turn off microphone or camera to skip narration.
learn how to record a PowerPoint 2019 advanced slide show, rehearse timings, and save a narrated presentation with slide timings that automatically advance.
Set up a slide show for various presentation types, enable remote presentations, and tailor how individuals view the presentation on their own computers.
Use the setup show dialog box to configure slide shows, choosing the show type (presenter, browsed, kiosk) and options like loop, narration, animation, pin color, custom shows, and timing-based advancement.
Learn to set up a PowerPoint slide show using the setup show dialog, with options for looping, narration, animation, and timings, in a resizable window.
Finalize presentations by customizing them to meet needs, collaborating with others, and marking up changes; rehearse slide timings, use annotation and presenter view, and set up automated slideshows for scenarios.
Customize presentation navigation to tailor content for a specific audience and situation without creating multiple versions, using sections, links, and custom slideshows.
Divide a presentation into sections to group slides and simplify switching between the full deck and individual slides. Discover how this feature enhances navigation and organization in PowerPoint 2019.
Organize your PowerPoint 2019 presentations by creating sections, naming and removing them, and expanding or collapsing them in the left pane for easier collaboration among co-authors.
Add and rename sections in PowerPoint 2019 to group slides, like a confidential sales forecast, and use slide sort view to move slides between sections.
Learn to add external and internal links in PowerPoint 2019 by inserting action links that navigate to different sections of your presentation, enhancing its effectiveness and appeal.
Create hyperlinks in PowerPoint using the insert hyperlink dialog box from text or shapes, linking to existing files, web pages, places in the document, new documents, or emails.
Use action buttons in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2019 advanced to perform predetermined functions. Navigate slides or presentations, launch programs, run macros, or play audio, triggered by hover or selection.
Configure action settings in PowerPoint 2019 via the action settings dialog box, split into mouse click and mouse over tabs, allowing hyperlinks, programs, macros, and other actions.
PowerPoint 2019 introduces zoom links, a navigation tool that jumps to slides or sections with a transition and can return to original slide, using the zoom tab to resize thumbnail.
Explore how to add links and action buttons in PowerPoint 2019, customize slide masters, and create internal hyperlinks and summary zooms for dynamic presentations.
Create a custom slideshow in PowerPoint 2019 by selecting slides tailored to a specific audience, enabling targeted presentations without displaying the entire deck.
Display a specific sequence of slides with custom slide shows, without altering the original presentation. Use the custom shows dialog box to add, remove, or copy slides for different audiences.
Name a custom show, add or remove slides, and reorder them with arrow keys in the custom show dialog box in PowerPoint 2019. Enable flexible slide sequence management.
Create a custom slide show in PowerPoint by using the slide show tab, naming the show, selecting slides, and rearranging their order before starting the presentation.
Explore advanced navigation techniques in PowerPoint 2019, including custom slideshows, zoom to specific slides, and external links to tailor presentations for diverse audiences with minimal extra work.
Secure and distribute PowerPoint 2019 presentations, protecting files from edits and enabling electronic distribution with built-in features.
Explore PowerPoint 2019 advanced security options to protect your presentation by managing metadata, access permissions, and edit rights, and removing unnecessary information.
Explore file properties in PowerPoint's backstage view, including metadata such as creator, creation date, last modified, size, and tags; some properties are auto-generated, others added by users.
Set up password protection to secure your presentation by requiring a password to open or modify the file, and you'll be prompted to enter it.
The mark as final feature protects your presentation by converting it to a read-only state and graying out most commands. Without additional security measures, users can still modify the file.
Digital signatures securely authenticate PowerPoint documents and emails with a virtual stamp, providing mass security for data. A digital ID from a certificate authority enables signature display without preventing edits.
Understand how digital IDs function like a digital driver's license, with virtual certificates to authenticate documents using digital signatures issued by a Microsoft partner security authority.
Use the trust center dialog box to configure PowerPoint security, including permissions, privacy, and trusted locations for macros, add-ins, and other content.
Explore ActiveX and macro settings in the Trust Center, including protected view, sources that automate enabling or disabling, and the message bar for active content in PowerPoint.
Use the document inspector dialog box before you publicly share your presentations to remove hidden information, comments, annotations, and personal data like author and title, plus macros and ActiveX controls.
Learn how the document inspector dialog box helps manage revision tracking data, metadata about changes, and invisible slide content and notes, and how to remove that information.
Demonstrates securing a presentation by setting open and modify passwords, encrypting the file, removing personal information, and using final or read-only protections to control access and edits.
Convert your presentation into video files using several options, then package them as a physical disk. Deliver your message to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
Convert the presentation to a Windows Media Video file with the create a video option, selecting quality levels from ultra hd to 480p and including timings, narration, and a preview.
Convert a presentation to a video by exporting from the file menu and choosing create video; select timings and narration or default durations, then save as mp4 or wmv.
Package PowerPoint presentations for cd by copying files with embedded fonts to a folder or cd, using the options to include file types and password options, then burn to cd.
Package a presentation for distribution by exporting and packaging your PowerPoint 2019 file, choosing options like linked files, embedded fonts, and optional password protection.
Protect presentations from unwanted changes and package them as a video to broaden distribution options, giving you confidence that your work is secure when shared.
Master design templates and master views to update slides, use ink, math equations, tables, charts, and multimedia, and apply advanced transitions, plus presenter view, annotations, custom slideshows, and secure distribution.
Meetings, seminars, workshops, courses; they are all part of our everyday lives. We are frequently asked to produce presentations with little preparation, at various venues, and with differing specifications. And some of these presentations contain classified information that needs to be covered. With all the factors, it can seem an impossible challenge to produce the content on time to all viewers.
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Meetings, seminars, workshops, courses; they are all part of our everyday lives. We are frequently asked to produce presentations with little preparation, at various venues, and with differing specifications. And some of these presentations contain classified information that needs to be covered. With all the factors, it can seem an impossible challenge to produce the content on time to all viewers.
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Meetings, seminars, workshops, courses; they are all part of our everyday lives. We are frequently asked to produce presentations with little preparation, at various venues, and with differing specifications. And some of these presentations contain classified information that needs to be covered. With all the factors, it can seem an impossible challenge to produce the content on time to all viewers.
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