PowerPoint Beginner Tutorial

PowerPoint Beginner Tutorial Welcome to Learnit Training. The exercise files for today's course are located in the video description below. Don't forget to like and subscribe! Welcome to Microsoft PowerPoint. Introduction E-learning with Mo Jones IT professional and educator. Let's take a look at what we'll be covering today for this very popular presentation. Application will navigate the PowerPoint interface..

We'll learn how to design presentations. Big part of PowerPoint is being able to insert and format text. We'll also insert and format images. We'll take it a step further. We'll work with objects such as text boxes, shapes, charts, tables, and we'll actually insert and manage tables charts. Then we'll take a look at some of the animation and transition features, just to make your presentation more dynamic..

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I'm going to go ahead and open up PowerPoint. Depending on the operating system that you use. Just locate your Apple Launcher and go ahead and open up PowerPoint. When you open PowerPoint for the first time, you presented with the start screen and on the start screen will realize we have three big buttons here. One says home once is new and one says open. And the main thing with these three buttons, they all allow you to pretty much do a couple of different things here. You can find files that you have created. You can open files that you have created or open a template..

You can also go ahead and create a presentation as well. Right now I'm on the home tab. And the home tab shows me all of my recent presentations that I've created. If I click on the new tab here, this gives me the chance to do something like create a new blank presentation. Or I can go ahead and start from a template. So there's a lot of templates here that are already made for us. This is a really good start. If you want a really good starting point to create a really professional looking document,.

These were created by professionals. They already have the slides inserted for you. You just need to go ahead and add your own content to these different ones here as well. I'll scroll down and we'll just quickly take a brief look at one here. So this one is for a sales pitch. So we can see a little preview at least one of the slides. And over here on the right. We get a brief description of what this actually offers. If I wanted to go ahead and open this up I can go ahead and click on create. I will click on create here and I'll take a look at this. So this downloads the file for you..

And we can see over here on the. Slide pane we have 21 slides. So this is the first slide. This is the title slide. We can see that we have a background image in here. We have a few text boxes or content placeholders. And let's just preview this. So pretty nice placement of the text and the shapes of the images. So very nice. Very organized, very simple to read..

Now one thing that you'll realize is the modern presentations. They resemble web interfaces. So a lot of the shapes and a lot of colors that we'll see the resemble web pages as well. This one uses a lot of whitespace, which is perfectly fine. If you can find a good way to bounce that, that works well here as well. So basically all of this information here, here is a table. So we can plug our own information in here if we want to. Let's say this was 75,000..

We can go ahead and do that. And then once we're done we can go ahead and save it. Well I'm going to go ahead and run this here. So to run the presentation we'll talk about this in just a little bit. But down here on the taskbar we have this little icon here. This will allow us to run the presentation or run the slideshow. Here's my slideshow. I can use the arrow keys to go to the next slide. I can press back to go to the first slide. I can even press up and down..

So whichever way you want to navigate, you can also click on the slide that brings you from one slide to the next. Down here on the bottom left you can see it's a little faded here. But we have some more controls here. We can go back. We can go forward, and we'll cover some of these other advanced features here in just a little bit as well. Let's go ahead and open up your version of PowerPoint. Once you're in the start screen just click on New and go ahead and search for a presentation. Go ahead and.

Download it and just preview it and come right back. Now that we viewed a fully functional template, let's go ahead and create a new blank presentation. So right here I'm still on my start screen from the home tab. I can go ahead and click on Blank Presentation. I can also get there from the new tab as well. Let's go ahead and create a new blank presentation. Here is my blank presentation. Let's take a look at some of the different components here..

Here we can see all of our slides. Right now we have one slide. As we add slides we'll see them appear here. We can see that we have our first slide. So this is actually a title slide. It's telling us to add a title and to go ahead and add a subtitle as well. So this slide is a pre-made slide. It has its own formatting in its own orientation in here as well. If you take a look at the bottom you'll notice that we have. So this is our status bar..

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Down here we can do things like change the different views. Right now we're using the normal view.

If I want to go ahead and make this a little bigger, if I click on the plus sign here, I can see it's making it bigger. If I click on the minus sign goes back down. But if I wanted to fit perfectly based on my current settings, I'll click on this auto fit here. And this will automatically fit it. So I don't have to scroll up or sideways. So I'll click here fit slide. Current window. And it's telling me that based on my current settings 89% I'm good to go. We'll work with these areas in just a little bit here..

Right now here's our best friend, the ribbon. This is where we find all of our commands that we can use, such as inserting a new slide, such as changing the font once we start entering text, changing the paragraph options here as well. If we click on the insert tab, we expect to find things that we can insert, such as a table or pictures or shapes or charts or text boxes and various types of media..

We're going to be inserting a lot of things here into our PowerPoint. Before this course is over, if we click on the design tab, we'll notice that we have different themes that we can select here. And if we just kind of mouse over them, we can see the preview of what our presentation would look like at least the title slide as well. So that's the ribbon. The other part that we have here is the search box. Now the search box is pretty cool. It does more than just allows us to search things. We can get a quick tutorial..

We can search for phrases in our document. Let's say I forgot how to zoom or go ahead and type the phrase zoom in here. And this is the way that search box works. It gives us different pieces of information or opportunities. So the very first tier here we have several actions that we can use. So I can use the fit to window command. Same thing that I did down here. I can go ahead and zoom to a particular level..

And then we have find and slide. So I can go ahead and search for the the phrase zoom in my presentation. But then down here is where it's really cool. We can get help. So maybe I forgot how to zoom in or out of a document. Down here on the bottom, I can get a quick tutorial. So let's go ahead and take a look at that. I'll type zoom in here. We clear my annotations. I'll click on zoom in or out of a document. And just like that opens up a side pane over here for me. And it gives me a quick one, two.

In terms of how to zoom and to my document. Notice it's pointing me to my zoom bar here on my step on my status bar, telling me I can either slide this or I can go ahead and click on the minus or click on the plus to zoom in or out here as well. If I want to be more specific, I can choose a particular zoom setting. So if I click here this expands the article further for me. So this is good. I don't need to go ahead and search the internet for an answer on how to zoom right here..

I can go ahead and and learn right here as well. I want to expand the article. I can click on this link and this will open up the article in a browser for me. We'll go ahead and close this here and we're good to go. So go ahead and navigate the interface. Go ahead and take a look at the search bar. Go ahead and click on the different ribbon tabs here to see what we can do. See what commands are available. Go ahead and zoom in or out of your document..

The last thing we can talk about here is right here we have the ribbon display options. Right now I can see my full ribbon. If I click on this drop down here I have a couple of different options. I can go to full screen mode. If I want to just see the tabs. So I'll just see the tabs. But I don't see any of this information down here. I can show tabs only. So if I click here. So notice I'm only seeing tabs. Now why would you why would you want to do this. Well this gives me a little more room..

Now I can see more of my slide. And if you notice, when I switch to tabs only

You'll notice that the ribbon display options will appear again. We can also press Ctrl plus F1 to collapse or expand the ribbon. I'll go back to always show Ribbon and I'm good to go. So go ahead and tour the interface and come right back. Now that we've toured the interface, let's go ahead and focus on our slide here. Let's break this slide down. So as we can see we have one slide in here. Let's go ahead and add another slide..

So this is the title slide. So from the home tab I can click on the new slide drop down here. If I click on this arrow this will show me the different types of slides that I can insert. So if I click here I can see I have a few to choose from. I actually have nine different types of slides that I can choose from. So right now here's our title slide. Here we have title and content. We have section header. We have two content comparison title only..

So just a title with a blank slide or a blank slide caption on the left. Content on the right. And we have a picture with caption here as well. I'm going to insert a title in content. And let's go ahead and compare those two slides. So now I have two because I did insert. So here's my title slide. And then down here here is my title and content..

Let's take a look at the title slide here. Now on the title slide will notice that we have two what's called content placeholders. So this is a title content placeholder. And on the bottom this is a subtitle content placeholder. So they are pre-made. They have their own special formatting in here. So for example, if I were to click inside of the title content placeholder, we can see that it's using the font size of 60. Well let's click on the.

Subtitle content placeholder and let's see what that is. So that is 24. So these are already predefined here. Now we'll notice once we choose a design theme some of these options will change as well. But for now we have on this slide we have a title placeholder and we have a subtitle placeholder. Let's take a look at slide number two. So here's slide number two. We can see that we have a title placeholder..

And down here we have what's called a content placeholder. This is called a content placeholder because there's various types of content that we can insert. So we can insert a image either from online or from our device. We can insert icons tables, charts, video. So a lot of different things that we can insert here. We can also add text. So if I just click in here I have now activated this this content placeholder. And I can.

Type in here. Go ahead and do that. So for this particular content placeholder the default font size is 28. Let's click on the title here. Now notice the title placeholder for this slide. It's not 60 like the title. This is 44 right. So the title slide is meant to really stand out. So we have bigger and bolder font. But then for each of your slides you don't want that same size. So this has a size of 44 as well..

So those are the basics when working with slides. There's different types of layouts that we can use. And then for each slide each slide has its own placeholders content placeholder picture placeholder. Different things that we can do here as well. Go ahead and insert a slide and go ahead and take a look at the difference between the two. We can also change this slide. So if I right click on the slide here. I'll go down to layout. Maybe I want to change this to content with caption..

And we can see. So now we have a little more detail. We still have our content placeholder over here to the right, but we have a title and text over here as well. Insert a few slides, change layouts and take a look at the placeholders on each slide and come right back. Welcome back. Well let's go ahead and start designing our slide here. I'm going to delete the second slide now. To delete a slide I can simply click on it. I can see that it's highlighted here..

And I can either press the delete key or I can right click on it and choose the delete slide command. Either way I'm going to go ahead and delete this slide. I'll go ahead and put a title in here. So I'll call this PowerPoint. And I'll go ahead and put module one here. Why not. So PowerPoint module one. So we've started we see we can just simply click on a placeholder and start typing content in there..

Now I don't have any colors in here. Everything is just black and white. Very plain. So the next logical thing to do is choose a design. So let's go ahead and click on the design tab. And now we have what's called themes. So we're basically going to go ahead and choose a theme. And depending on the theme that you choose you have what's called variance. So maybe you want a different variation of that particular theme. Maybe that theme is also available in blue or purple or orange..

We can go ahead and do that. So the first thing I want to do is choose a theme. By default we're using the basic office theme here. Here's the first one facet. So we can see it add some. I'll go ahead and actually click on there. So we can see kind of add some details in here. Let's go ahead and insert a slide as well. So let's go ahead and insert a new slide. Now take a look at the different slide layouts that are available..

Remember originally we had nine. Now we have quite a few more here. So each theme will have their own kind of special layouts that you can use here. For example, this one has a name card that we can use. Let's just add a title and content. And let's go back to the design tab. Let's just continue previewing the different designs here that we can use. I'll click on the gallery theme here. We can see that that's what that looks like. So here's my title slide..

And here's my title and content slide. So you'll spend a little bit of time choosing the theme that is right. Here's another theme. Here's one of my favorite. Here's the Iron Boardroom theme. And so I'll go ahead and choose Iron Boardroom. And then I'm going to go ahead and choose one of these different variants here. So I have four different ones that I can choose from. Let's see what this would look like with the this color..

Here's the bluish color. And also here's the or orange color here as well. So we can use that. Organic is pretty nice as well but also comes with variants. Go ahead and choose one. Very classy. So it looks very classy. So go ahead and choose one. And just take a look and see what slide layouts are available. And take a look and see how it's actually changing the look and feel of your presentation here..

I'm going to go ahead and choose. Let's see where is dividend. I like dividend. Can't find it right now. Here it is. I like dividend if you just hover over it it gives you the name of it. I'll go ahead and use this. And I'll change it to this variant here as well. So pretty nice. Very modern, very classy. Finally let's see what this plays. Okay. So we just have the basic layouts here. So go ahead and take a look at that..

Go ahead and click on the design tab. Choose a theme. Choose a variant and then take a look at the different slide layouts that are available and come right back. Welcome back. Okay so I have my title slide here. PowerPoint module one. I have my title and content here. Let's just go ahead and document what we've learned so far. So I'll go ahead and put lesson one in here. And lesson one was all about getting started. Now you notice with this particular theme that I selected, it's automatically capitalizing all of the letters.

That I type here in the in the title area. I'll go ahead and click inside of my content placeholder here, and we'll just talk about some things that we learned here. We talked about the start screen. We talked about the ribbon. And I'm just working with the list here. So if I just press enter we can see I'm working with a bulleted list. Most of the content placeholders that we work with, they will incorporate bullets as well. So start screen ribbon. We also talked about just different slide layouts..

And we're able to take a look at. Content placeholders. So content placeholders here. That's pretty much what we covered here in lesson one. For lesson two. Let's go ahead and insert a new slide. Let's go ahead and also insert a title and content. So if lesson two. We started talking about just how to develop a presentation. So developing a presentation..

So one of the first things we need to do is choose. A design. He will choose a design slash theme. And optionally choose a variant as well. So that's what we've done so far. Let's continue developing our presentation here. And lesson two. Now we're still talking about design here. Now one of the things that's available is the designer..

Now the designer. It's right here on my home tab all the way to the far right. We can see I have my designer right here. Now what the designer is. Let's see if we mouse over it, gives us a little detail. Opens the designer pane for instant slide makeovers. So what if you chose a theme, but you're not. You know, you want a little more flexibility. You want a little more content on your slide. Let's take a look and see. Based on the content that we have on this slide, let's see what the designer will provide for us..

So I'll click on the designer here. Now notice when I clicked on the designer it's giving me different slides to be able to choose from. So this is using an infographic. So it's creating an infographic for me that I can use. The third one here puts a picture on the left. So the designer basically analyzes the content that's on your slide. And then it tries to create a slide based on the text that you have on the air or pictures..

Now the designer really likes pictures. If I were to add a picture in here, we would see a lot more options that are available. But let's just scroll down here. So basically, if you like one of these designs you can go ahead and just click on it. And that will actually convert your slide to that particular design. I'll go ahead and choose this one here. And as you can see, it converted our text into what's called smart art. We'll cover smart art at another time, but it created a nice infographic for us here as well..

I can press Ctrl Z to undo that. So would you rather have your slide look like this? Would you rather have it look like this? I can always change this if I want to. So if I go back to the top here, let's see. This one has a picture on the left. Okay. So that looks pretty nice. Nice little accent color here as well. So you can always change them. But I like these. It's giving us some nice simple layouts to choose from here as well..

Now this is on a per slide basis. This is not going to change every slide for you. If I go back to the title slide here, you'll notice that we have different options that are available. If I want to see more I can click on see more designs. So that's how the designer works. Sometimes it will not find a design for you right away. You can always come back a little later and apply a design here as well. I'm going to go ahead and choose one of these..

I'll choose this one. Nice and elegant. And for my second slide I'll go ahead and convert that to an infographic. So not so bad. We use the designer. We have three really nice looking slides. We did not have to worry about placing these objects on the making sure that they align properly. The designer took care of that for us. Everything is lined up. Everything is kind of snapped to the grid here as well..

So go ahead and turn on the designer. Go ahead and apply a couple of designs to your first three slides and come right back. Welcome back. Well, hope you found a design theme that you liked. Hopefully you're able to design each of your slides individually by using the designer here. So for lesson two will continue talking about developing a presentation. I just added another line here designing slides with the designer. So when we're developing your presentation the first step is kind of choosing your design. And after that is adding content..

Now once you add content, the next thing that you may want to do is to either well really to work with the text. So here's my text here on slide number three. It looks a little small. I have a lot of space here at the top and on the bottom. And let's go ahead and take a look and see. I'll go ahead and just highlight the text here. I can double click to highlight a word. I can triple click to highlight an entire row. And once I do that I can see that this is using the.

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PowerPoint Beginner Tutorial

Down here we can do things like change the different views. Right now we're using the normal view.

Now I can see more of my slide. And if you notice, when I switch to tabs only

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