Lynda PowerPoint 2010 Essential Training

Author: David Diskin
Duration: 03h 24m
Released on: 6/17/2010
Exercise files: Yes
Software works on: Windows only

In PowerPoint 2010 Essential Training, author David Diskin demonstrates how to engage an audience with images, video, sound, charts, and diagrams in professional presentations. The course also covers a variety of methods to share presentations with others, and provides comprehensive tutorials on how to design presentations that successfully deliver a quality message. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

• Using the Office 2010 Backstage View
• Using and customizing the Office 2010 ribbon
• Starting a presentation from scratch
• Applying slide layouts for consistency
• Rearranging slides
• Running a presentation for an audience
• Formatting with font, color, bullets, and alignment
• Adding and customizing photos, clip art, shapes, audio, and video
• Applying picture effects such as background removal, brightness, and color effects
• Modifying slide masters
• Adding a logo to the background
• Adding and customizing tables, charts, diagrams, and data from Excel
• Printing a presentation
• Sharing a presentation with others through video, the web, SharePoint, and PDF

Content:

Introduction - 04m 09s

• Welcome - 01m 08s
• What is PowerPoint? - 01m 50s
• Using the exercise files - 01m 11s

1. Understanding the PowerPoint 2010 Interface - 19m 17s

• Managing your presentations with Backstage - 04m 14s
• Using the Office Ribbon - 04m 57s
• Customizing the view - 03m 42s
• Customizing the Office Ribbon - 06m 24s

2. Getting Started - 41m 41s

• Starting from scratch - 02m 19s
• Adding slides and content - 03m 24s
• Deleting slides and changing layouts - 02m 24s
• Rearranging slides - 01m 46s
• Saving time with Outline mode - 03m 51s
• Separating your show into sections - 05m 15s
• Adding photos and clip art - 05m 24s
• Spell-checking - 04m 06s
• Using the thesaurus     - 01m 17s
• Saving a presentation - 04m 22s
• Applying a theme - 03m 59s
• Running the show - 03m 34s

3. Formatting a Presentation - 42m 39s

• Using fonts and color - 07m 17s
• Adding bullets and list numbering - 02m 10s
• Changing text alignment - 02m 13s
• Using picture effects - 05m 54s
• Removing backgrounds from photos - 05m 52s
• Understanding slide masters - 03m 07s
• Changing slide backgrounds - 03m 17s
• Adding a logo to the background - 06m 18s
• Applying slide transitions - 04m 33s
• Saving the design template - 01m 58s

4. Adding Tables and Charts - 17m 10s

• Creating tables - 02m 02s
• Formatting tables - 03m 57s
• Pasting tables from Excel - 05m 01s
• Creating charts - 02m 16s
• Pasting charts from Excel - 03m 54s

5. Working with Shapes - 24m 43s

• Adding shapes - 03m 00s
• Moving, resizing, formatting, and rotating shapes - 05m 14s
• Adding text to shapes - 02m 57s
• Adding text boxes - 03m 54s
• Working with layers (Send to Back and Send to Front) - 05m 17s
• Animating text, shapes, and other objects - 04m 21s

6. Adding Audio and Video - 13m 10s

• Adding an audio clip - 03m 16s
• Adding video - 05m 07s
• Cropping video - 04m 47s

7. Adding SmartArt and Diagrams - 14m 27s

• Adding organizational charts - 04m 59s
• Adding cycle diagrams, Venn diagrams, and other diagrams - 09m 28s

8. Sharing with Others - 26m 40s

• Printing a presentation - 05m 22s
• Adding speaker notes - 03m 03s
• Saving your presentation as a PDF - 03m 12s
• Presenting on another laptop (packaging) - 04m 28s
• Broadcasting on the web - 03m 52s
• Saving as a video - 03m 24s
• Using web apps through SharePoint - 03m 19s

Conclusion - 00m 36s

• Goodbye - 00m 36s