Customizing Presentations

This module explains how to customize your presentations by adding backgrounds, themes, and other elements to help them stand out and to deliver the right message to your audience.

Lessons

• Applying a Theme
• Applying a Background Style
• Adding a Footer
• Arranging and Printing Sections
• Exercise: Adding a Background Image
• Exercise: Customizing Your Presentation

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Apply a theme.
• Apply a background style.
• Add a footer.
• Add a background image.
• Save a custom theme.
• Arrange and print sections of a presentation.

Presentation Masters

This module explains how to work with presentation masters in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016.

Lessons

• Working with the Slide Master
• Slide Layouts
• Formatting Slide Masters and Layouts
• Adding a Watermark to Your Presentation
• Adding Slide Numbers Using the Slide Master
• Inserting a New Slide Master
• Preserving a Slide Master
• Modifying the Notes Master
• Modifying the Handout Master
• Adding a Header and Footer to Notes and Handouts
• Exercise: Using the Slide Master

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Work with the slide master.
• Work with layouts.
• Format slide masters and slide layouts.
• Add a watermark.
• Add slide numbers.
• Insert a new slide master.
• Preserve a slide master.
• Modify the slide master.
• Modify the handout master.
• Add a header and footer to notes and handouts.

Working with Special Effects

This module explains how to work with special effects in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016.

Lessons

• Animating Text and Objects
• Working with the Animation Painter
• Setting Animation Timing
• Animating a Chart
• Exercise: Applying Special Effects to a Presentation

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Animate text and objects.
• Work with the Animation Painter.
• Set animation timing.
• Animate a chart.

Using SmartArt

This module explains how to work with SmartArt in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016.

Lessons

• Inserting SmartArt Graphics
• Modifying Smart Art Graphics
• Resizing/Repositioning a SmartArt Object
• Inserting Text into a SmartArt Object
• Formatting Text in a SmartArt Object
• Adding Shapes to a SmartArt Object
• Ungrouping SmartArt Objects
• Exercise: Working with SmartArt

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Insert SmartArt graphics into your presentations.
• Modify SmartArt graphics.
• Resize and reposition SmartArt graphics.
• Ad text to a SmartArt object.
• Format text within a SmartArt object.
• Add shapes to a SmartArt graphic.
• Ungroup SmartArt objects.

Multimedia

This module explains how to work with multimedia features in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016.

Lessons

• Creating a Photo Album
• Adding Captions
• Applying a Theme to Your Album
• Customizing an Album
• Exercise: Creating and Modifying a Photo Album
• Inserting Sounds and Video
• Editing Media Clips
• Exercise: Adding Video to a Presentation

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create a photo album.
• Add captions to photos in an album.
• Apply a theme to an album.
• Customize the photo album layout
• Insert sound and video in a presentation.
• Edit media clips in PowerPoint.
• Change Multimedia settings.

Setting Up the Slide Show

This module explains how to work with slide shows in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016.

Lessons

• Setting Up a Custom Show
• Creating a Hyperlink
• Adding an Action Button
• Jumping to Another Presenation
• Exercise: Presenting a Custom Show
• Using Rehearse Timings
• Navigating within a Slide Show
• Annotating a Presenation
• Creating a Presenter-Independent Slide Show
• Setting Up a Slide Show to Repeat Automatically
• Exercise: Preparing the Slide Show

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Set up a custom slide show.
• Create a hyperlink.
• Add an action button.
• Jump to another presentation.
• Rehearse the timing of your presentation.
• Navigate within a slide show.
• Annotate a presentation.
• Create a presenter-independent slide show.
• Set up a slide show to repeat automatically.