PowerPoint 2013 Switch from Beginner to Advanced: Intro

Navigate normal, outline, slide sorter, reading, and notes views to edit slides and add graphics and animations. Drag thumbnails to reorder slides and use the notes pane for speaker notes.

Learn how to use sorter view to see slides in sequence and rearrange them by clicking and dragging, with insight into what happens in normal view.

Set up the slide master to establish the basic structure and apply formatting, including title and content layouts, colors, fonts, and effects, across all slides.

Learn to create and customize bulleted and numbered lists in PowerPoint 2013, choose bullet styles and symbols, adjust size and color, and use pictures as bullets.

Select placeholders and apply text formatting in PowerPoint 2013, adjusting font type, size, color, bold, underline, color palette, and change case to improve slide readability.

Explore character spacing in PowerPoint 2013, adjusting letter gaps with the spacing dropdown from very tight to very loose, including expanded and condensed options, and apply kerning.

Master hiding slides in PowerPoint 2013 by selecting multiple slides with the control key and clicking hide, letting you tailor live presentations for executives.

Learn to group topics in PowerPoint 2013 by creating sections, applying different themes to sections, and organizing slides without separate presentations.

Delete a slide by selecting it and pressing the delete key, then undo mistakes via the quick access toolbar or ctrl+z to revert the last action.

Create and customize tables in PowerPoint 2013 using insert table, draw table, or content placeholders, and copy or resize rows and columns for precise layouts.

select elements of a PowerPoint 2013 table by choosing a single cell, a column, a row, or the entire table, using the mouse and the layout tab, or press control-a.

Insert or delete rows or columns by selecting a cell and using layout tab to add left, right, above, or below, and adjust width and height in table size group.

Choose shapes from a gallery and draw them on slides by clicking and dragging, then type text, adjust borders and formatting, constrain dimensions with shift, and resize using the handles.

Edit shapes in PowerPoint 2013 by deleting unwanted shapes, using change shape, and editing shape points to move points individually and customize the existing shape.

Resize and rotate objects in PowerPoint 2013 by dragging handles, with shift to preserve aspect ratio, or rotate via the format picture options and spinner.

Master layering objects in PowerPoint 2013 by adjusting stack order: bring forward or to front to place items on top, or send backward or to back to reveal underlying elements.

Learn to treat multiple objects as a single unit by grouping them or merging shapes, using union, combine, intersect, and subtract options in PowerPoint 2013, with Ctrl+G to group.

Apply a PowerPoint theme from the design gallery, either to all slides or selected ones, explore theme variants, and adjust background color and font effects.

Change slide layouts quickly using options and gallery navigation, and leverage placeholders to insert one of six graphical object types, such as tables and pictures, for efficient PowerPoint design.

Learn to improve slide readability by applying grayscale to a PowerPoint 2013 presentation, reducing color distractions, and switching back to color view as needed.

Explore PowerPoint 2013 chart types to visualize medical data, including column charts for trends, line and area charts with filled regions, and scatter charts with optional trendlines for stock prices.

Insert a column chart in PowerPoint 2013, then enter and update data in the embedded spreadsheet. Copy data from Excel if needed and add a title to the chart.