PowerPoint 2016
Quick Start Tutorials
What is PowerPoint?
With PowerPoint on your PC, Mac, or mobile device:
Create presentations from scratch or a template.
Add text, images, art, and videos.
Select a professional design with PowerPoint Designer.
Add transitions, animations, and motion.
Save to OneDrive, to get to your presentations from your computer, tablet, or phone.
Share and work with others, wherever they are.
Create a Presentation
Open PowerPoint.
Select an option:
- Select Blank Presentation to create a presentation from scratch.
- Select one of the templates.
- Select Take a Tour, and then select Create, to see tips for using PowerPoint.
Add a Slide
Select the slide you want your new slide to follow.
Select Home > New Slide.
Select Layout and the you type want from the drop-down.
Add and Format Text
Place the cursor where you want, and type.
Select the text, and then select an option on the Home tab: Font, Font size, Bold, Italic, Underline, ...
To create bulleted or numbered lists, select the text, and then select Bullets or Numbering.
Add a Picture, Shape, or Chart
To add a picture:
Select Picture.
Browse for the picture you want and select Insert.
To add a shape, art, or chart:
Select Shapes, Icons, SmartArt, or Chart.
Select the one you want.
Save in PowerPoint
Save Your Presentation to OneDrive
Select File > Save As.
Select OneDrive.
Save personal files to OneDrive - Personal, and work files to your company OneDrive. You can also save to another location, like your device.
Rename a Presentation
Select the file name on the title bar.
In the menu that appears you can rename the file, select a new location to move it to, or see the version history for the file.
Offline
Design in PowerPoint
Themes and PowerPoint Designer
Select the Design tab.
Select one of the Themes.
Select one of the Variants.
PowerPoint Designer
Insert one or more pictures, a list of items, or a list of dates.
The Designer panel will open. Select the design you want.
Transitions
To add a special effect, to transition from one slide to another:
Select the slide you want to add a transition to.
On the Transitions tab, select the effect you want.
Select Effect Options to change how the transition happens: From Right, From Left, ...
To undo a transition, select None.
Animations
To animate text or objects on a slide:
Select the text or object you want to animate.
On the Animations tab, select Add Animation, and select the animation you want from the drop-down.
To animate one line of text at a time, select one line of text, select an animation, select the next line of text, select an animation, ...
For Start, select When Clicked, With Previous, or After Previous.
Collaborate in PowerPoint
Share Your Presentation
Select Share on the ribbon.
Enter the names or email addresses of the people you want to share with. Or select the drop-down to change permissions. Allow editing is checked by default. To change permission to view only, uncheck this box and select Apply.
Include a message if you'd like and select Send.
Comments in Presentations
Select Review > New Comment. Or select New if the Comments pane is open.
In the Comments pane, type your message in the box and press Enter.
Select Reply and type your response.
Select the Next or Back buttons to go between comments and slides.
Select the X in the upper corner of the comment.
Chat While Editing
If there's another person editing your file, select their image or initials in the upper right corner to open a chat window.
Type some text and press Enter.
Note: Your conversations won't be saved when you close a file.
Give a Presentation in PowerPoint
Start a presentation
On the Slide Show tab select From Beginning. Now, if you are working with PowerPoint on a single monitor and you want to display Presenter view, in Slide Show view, on the control bar at the bottom left select the three dots, and then Show Presenter View.
To move to the previous or next slide, select Previous or Next.
To view all the slides in your presentation, select See all slides.
Notes
During your presentation, the speaker notes are visible on your monitor, but aren't visible to the audience.
The Notes pane is a box that appears below each slide. Tap it to add notes.
If you don’t see the Notes pane or it is completely minimized, click Notes on the task bar across the bottom of the PowerPoint window
Subtitles
You can choose which language the caption/subtitle text should be shown to your audience. This feature requires Windows 10 and an up-to-date version of PowerPoint.
Select Slide Show > Subtitle Settings.
Set your Spoken Language.
Select Subtitle Language to see which languages PowerPoint can display on-screen as captions or subtitles, and select the one you want.
In the Subtitle Settings menu, set the desired position of the captions or subtitles.
More appearance settings are available by selecting Subtitle Settings > More Settings (Windows).
Slides & Layouts Video Tutorials & Links
- What is a slide master?
- Add, rearrange, duplicate, and delete slides in PowerPoint
- Apply or change a slide layout
- Add color and design to your slides with themes
- Apply a template to a new presentation
- Get design ideas for slides
- Customize a slide master
- Change the page orientation in PowerPoint between landscape and portrait
- Organize your PowerPoint slides into sections
- Add a DRAFT watermark to the background of slides
- Create, merge, and group objects on a slide
- Guides for arranging things on a slide in PowerPoint
- Change the order in which stacked objects, placeholders, or shapes appear on a slide
- Rotate or flip an object
Text & Tables Video Tutorials & Links
Pictures & Graphics Video Tutorials & Links
Present Slide Shows Video Tutorials & Links
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