Microsoft PowerPoint: Presentations, Book Covers, Animation

Explore the PowerPoint main screen layout, including the ribbon, menu, and command bar, with left slide thumbnails, a right slide workspace, and tools for home, insert, design, transitions, and slideshow.

Choose and configure a template to set the look and feel of your presentation, using the slide master to apply fonts, colors, and layouts across all slides.

Configure slide size and orientation for a book cover in PowerPoint, using portrait dimensions and 300 dpi bitmap export to create print-ready graphics.

Preview your presentation by reviewing slides in editing mode, start from beginning or current slide, navigate with keyboard arrows, fix errors, and plan transitions and animations.

Apply simple slide element animations in PowerPoint by selecting items, choosing float in or fade, starting on click or with previous via the animation pane to pace your slide's narrative.

Master PowerPoint basics by learning templates, setting slide size and orientation, inserting and editing content, reviewing presentations, and applying simple transitions and animations to create a course overview slide.

Advance your PowerPoint skills with intermediate training, mastering inserting pictures, colors and artistic effects, text boxes and shapes, SmartArt, tables, charts, graphs, and video.

Insert and customize shapes in PowerPoint to add graphic elements to slides, select from lines, basic shapes, arrows, and callouts, then format text and apply effects.

Master advanced PowerPoint techniques, including recording presentations in a studio setup, creating advanced slide animations, removing background images, and using PowerPoint for course promotion and charts.

Design book covers in PowerPoint by combining a full-background image, colored boxes, and bold text, then duplicate slides and export as jpeg.

Explore the 2017 extensions and more, navigate the course catalog, and discover PowerPoint courses on book cover design, recording presentations, and business graphics.

Master advanced presentation skills for PowerPoint, from slide, screencast, or hybrid formats to confident delivery, pacing, enunciation, and picture-in-picture talking head transitions with foreshadowing.

Outline courses, sections, lectures and articles in a text editor, then create lecture topics with bullet points, and translate them into PowerPoint slides for the presentation.

Defeat ums, uhs, and sos through disciplined practice, recording, and repeating without filler. Embrace silences, slow down, stay fearless, and use postproduction carefully to reduce edits without choppiness.

Learn to use enunciating, articulating, emoting, inflecting, and laughter to captivate audiences in PowerPoint presentations. Overact to project energy and use pauses, volume, and inflection to keep listeners engaged.

Learn to use PowerPoint bullet items as prompts to guide dialogue, paraphrase, and stay on point without scripting, while blending screenshots and hybrid presentations for a lively, spontaneous delivery.

Master paraphrasing and augmenting your talking points by rewriting bullet items in your own words, using them as visual cues, and elaborating with examples to avoid boring your audience.

Deliver a dynamic live presentation by projecting to the back of the room, moving beyond the podium, engaging the audience with interactions, and embracing fearless energy without post-production.

Be fearless and teach with PowerPoint as you explore reasons not to lecture. Decide if you are a teacher and overcome the voices in your head doubting your topic.

Explore PowerPoint as a vector graphics editor to design slides, apply basic and advanced animations, draw shapes, use the selection pane, and craft animated intros.

Apply and sequence entrance, emphasis, and exit animations in PowerPoint, using the animation pane to assign multiple effects and control starts such as on click, with previous, or after previous.

Learn to draw smooth freeform curves in PowerPoint by using the curved tool instead of the freeform shape to round corners quickly. Avoid editing points and Bezier tuning, saving time.

Drive your PowerPoint animations by using the selection pane to organize and view slide elements, rename groups, and manage visibility for precise layering.

Learn talking head animation in PowerPoint by creating avatars with mouth and beard movement, blinking eyes, and layered image techniques to synchronize speech.