Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Step by Step

Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Step by Step

Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Step by Step

Joan Lambert

PUBLISHED BY Microsoft Press A division of Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, Washington 98052-6399

Copyright © 2015 by Joan Lambert

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Contents

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Introduction . xi Who this book is for. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi The Step by Step approach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Download the practice files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii Ebook edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Get support and give feedback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Errata and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv We want to hear from you. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi Stay in touch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Part 1: Get started with PowerPoint 2016 1 PowerPoint 2016 basics . 3 Start PowerPoint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Work in the PowerPoint user interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Sidebar: About Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Identify app window elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Sidebar: Tell me what you want to do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Work with the ribbon and status bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Sidebar: Adapt procedure steps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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Manage Office and app settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Sidebar: Microsoft account options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2 Create and manage presentations . 27 Create presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Open and navigate presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Display different views of presentations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Display standard views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Display program elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Change the display of content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Display and edit presentation properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Save and close presentations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Sidebar: Compatibility with earlier versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Sidebar: Save files to OneDrive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 3 Create and manage slides . 61 Add and remove slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Insert new slides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Copy and import slides and content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Sidebar: SharePoint slide libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Hide and delete slides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Divide presentations into sections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Rearrange slides and sections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Apply themes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Change slide backgrounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Sidebar: Non-theme colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

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Part 2: Insert and manage slide text 4 Enter and edit text on slides . 99 Enter text on slides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Enter text in placeholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Insert nonstandard characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Add supplementary text to slides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Sidebar: Insert equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Add a slide footer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Move, copy, and delete text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Sidebar: Format text placeholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Format characters and paragraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117 Apply WordArt text effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Sidebar: Configure AutoCorrect options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Check spelling and choose the best wording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Sidebar: Find and replace text and fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 5 Present text in tables . 139 Insert tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Format tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Modify table structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Embed and link to Excel content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161

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Part 3: Insert and manage visual elements 6 Insert and manage simple graphics . 167 Insert, move, and resize pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Sidebar: Graphic formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171 Edit and format pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Draw and modify shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Draw and add text to shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Sidebar: Locate additional formatting commands . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Move and modify shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Format shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Sidebar: Connect shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Capture and insert screen clippings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Create a photo album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191 Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 7 Create and manage business graphics . 201 Create diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Sidebar: Picture diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Modify diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Format diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Create charts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Modify charts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Manage chart >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84 Page 85 Page 86 Page 87 Page 88 Page 89 Page 90 Page 91 Page 92 Page 93 Page 94 Page 95 Page 96 Page 97 Page 98 Page 99 Page 100 Page 101 Page 102 Page 103 Page 104 Page 105 Page 106 Page 107 Page 108 Page 109 Page 110 Page 111 Page 112 Page 113 Page 114 Page 115 Page 116 Page 117 Page 118 Page 119 Page 120 Page 121 Page 122 Page 123 Page 124 Page 125 Page 126 Page 127 Page 128 Page 129 Page 130 Page 131 Page 132 Page 133 Page 134 Page 135 Page 136 Page 137 Page 138 Page 139 Page 140 Page 141 Page 142 Page 143 Page 144 Page 145 Page 146 Page 147 Page 148 Page 149 Page 150 Page 151 Page 152 Page 153 Page 154 Page 155 Page 156 Page 157 Page 158 Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Page 168 Page 169 Page 170 Page 171 Page 172 Page 173 Page 174 Page 175 Page 176 Page 177 Page 178 Page 179 Page 180 Page 181 Page 182 Page 183 Page 184 Page 185 Page 186

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