Microsoft PowerPoint for Beginners

Explore the font group on the home tab in PowerPoint, including font choices, sizes, bold/italic/underline, strikethrough, character spacing, text highlight colors, eyedropper color, and text shadow.

Explore the PowerPoint paragraph group on the home tab to apply text directions, alignments, bullet formats, numbering styles, and line spacing for professional slides.

Explore the drawing group in PowerPoint's home tab to add shapes, customize fill and outline, apply text, styles, and effects, and master aligning, ordering, rotating, flipping, and grouping objects.

Explore the design ideas feature in PowerPoint on the home tab with your subscription, which automatically generates slide makeovers to save design time.

Explore creating tables in PowerPoint using insert table, draw table, or embedded Excel spreadsheets, and customize with design and layout options for rows, columns, borders, and alignment.

Learn how to insert pictures in PowerPoint using three methods—this device, stock images, and online pictures—and master taking screenshots with screen clipping and creating a photo album on slides.

Learn header and footer customization in PowerPoint, including date and time, slide numbers, title slide exclusions, and notes or handout layouts, plus WordArt styling and text formatting.

Explore built-in themes and format background options in the design tab to quickly style slides, customize colors, fonts, and backgrounds, and apply theme variants for a cohesive presentation.

Explore PowerPoint transitions tab to apply slide-wide effects, control left or right reveals, add sounds, and set automatic timings or mouse-click navigation across all slides.