Microsoft PowerPoint

Become a pro PowerPoint creator in 31 minutes. This beginner tutorial teaches a guaranteed strategy for creating professional-looking presentations. Includes free class handout. Are you a new or frustrated user? We provide clear video coaching and instruction with a matching downloadable free PDF cheatsheet handout focusing on the 7 steps you must use for building beautiful slide decks.

Getting started with PowerPoint? This PowerPoint mouse tutorial explains the mouse buttons, pointers, and controls? This video training will show how to master the mouse buttons, decode the screen cursor indicators, and provide some tricks on selecting objects and text.

This is not another 1,000 unmemorizable list, but a practical list of keyboard shortcuts that EVERYONE MUST KNOW to be efficient with all the Microsoft Office Tools: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and more.

This video tutorial goes into file renaming, save as a new format. Customizing where files are saved.  Plus even deeper into search, OneDrive, converting to PDFs, creating image files of your slides, and even an animated GIF of all slides.

This tutorial will walk you through the steps of getting your presentation on the screen. You will not just see how it works, but get coaching on some subtle techniques that we have learned from our decades of experience.

A tutorial on using the Powerpoint Ribbon menu bar. Covering: Ribbon Tabs, Contextual Menu Tabs, In-Ribbon Galleries Dialog Box Launcher. This training session is taught using PowerPoint Office 365 but it is applicable to all versions from Office 2013 and above.

Windows 10 provides numerous ways to launch software depending if your hands are on the keyboard or the mouse or you just want a faster way to start the program.  In this under 10-minute video tutorial, we show all the different ways to speed up your daily work process.

The last action PowerPoint Repeat, Undo and Redo commands can be confusing & dangerous when you want to save yourself from a mistake. These tools can also be your friends to power through the creation process, especially the two format painter tools for style and bullet point animation.

Tutorial on resizing and rescaling PowerPoint objects like text, images, charts, tables, SmartArt, and more. Each element has different quirks. Learn all about resizing plus some tricks along the way. See topics and timestamps below:

Learn more than just cut, copy and paste. Learn about all three clipboards: Windows, Office, and the new Windows 10 clipboards.

SECTIONS is the best PowerPoint Pro Tricks for big slide decks! See how to manage, organize and format subsets of a presentation with the power tool of SECTION.

Learn all about PowerPoint Draw and Ink enhancement and animation for both Windows and macOS. This comprehensive tutorial covers everything you need to know about this tool that can add personalization and focus to your slide deck.

The PowerPoint Table Draw tool can help transform ideas into tables. Learn all about this tool in our in-depth tutorial for both Windows and macOS.

Learn all about PowerPoint Tables in this deep dive about everything concerning the table tool in PowerPoint for Mac and Windows users. Become a master by learning the multiple methods of inserting tables, entering data, managing the layout.

The Design Ideas tool in PowerPoint is a must-know tool and this tutorial will explain all about how to maximize the visual impact it brings to your slides.

Learn four different ways to create a PowerPoint Timeline. There are three-click-fast timelines, time scale timelines, elegant timelines, and sophisticated professional timelines. Learn all four methods in under 15 minutes with the first two strategies in under five minutes!

Why does your presentation just not look right? How can you make it better and avoid common design mistakes? Learn from this critique and rebuild of an ugly slide deck.

Your presentation looks just okay but you want it to SHINE! This tutorial will show step-by-step how to make your individual slides sing in chorus with the rest of your slide deck

Precise communications in PowerPoint presentations grow from words enhanced by text formatting tools. Learn a dozen of tricks to get your text to shine in a slide deck. we will cover how to layout your text on a slide, how to add formatting for emphasis, add bullet line animation, and special pro tricks.

How do PowerPoint's Design Themes, Layouts, and Master Slides interact? And how do you change them? Slide Masters can be confusing until you see all the pieces fit together. This 7-minute explainer covers how all these tools impact each other and how you can take full control of formatting your presentation slide deck like a pro.

Fonts make PowerPoint slides shine with clarity; but which font to choose? And why does it break some presentations? Learn EVERYTHING about fonts that is PowerPoint related.

While EDITING a PowerPoint presentation, these keyboard and mouse shortcuts tricks will speed up the creation of your slide deck. The tutorial will cover quick tips to create new slides, duplicate slides, switch between Outline and Standard view, grouping, and exact object placements. If you spend more than 3 hours a month creating PowerPoint presentations, you will want to know these tricks to speed up the process.

This is a deep dive into making master slides work for you. This is not a step by step guide, but a deep dive to teach you how to UNDERSTAND master slides and make them work for you. You will master Slide Master!

Create a LOOK that stands out! Learn to Build Unique PowerPoint Templates from Slide Master. This advanced tutorial creates one-of-a-kind looks for you or your organization. It includes starting with a blank page and designing a look that no one else has. And then save it as a template. Great for people that want a true one-of-a-kind PowerPoint look or if you are responsible for building a corporate standard that can be shared with others.

Tired of the existing PowerPoint slide backgrounds? Then create your own. Learn how to find great free images to use and then transform them to work as spectacular PowerPoint backgrounds.

Learn how to build effective and persuasive slide decks by employing the six senses of Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play, and Meaning.

In this seven minutes deep dive tutorial, you will learn the difference why you might want to use only Templates or just use Themes or always use both. It will depend if you want to save the look just for you or if you need to share the templates and themes with other people in your group or from your communication department.

Learn EVERYTHING about PowerPoint tabs, bullets & margins in this advanced video tutorial. Become an expert on PowerPoint bullet points, margins & tabs.

PowerPoint has over two dozen different charts; learn the story behind each type and which chart will best tell your number story.

Learn all about the anatomy of a PowerPoint Chart; exploring the individual parts of Line, XY, Bar, and Area charts.

Go deep into taking control of all the components of a PowerPoint Pie Chart.

Learn EVERYTHING about PowerPoint Pie Charts for Windows and Mac computers. We dive deep into the advanced creation process, troubleshooting, and tips on how best to present your data through the Pie Chart.

Go from nothing to an elegant PowerPoint Pie Chart in about 4 minutes! This Windows tutorial will get you started no matter what skills you possess.

Go from nothing to an elegant PowerPoint Pie Chart in about 5 minutes! This Apple macOS tutorial will get you started no matter what skills you possess.

Masterclass Lesson 1/6: Start here, not just the first of our Masterclass, but where you start to create your presentation by beginning in Outline mode. PowerPoints works like magic if you start the creation in Outline Mode.

Masterclass Lesson 2/6: All masterpieces need brutal editing! This lesson goes into the creation of a story arc, making sure you have clear call to action objectives, properly formatted bullet points that grab the attention of your audience. Strong editing is the key to success.

Masterclass Lesson 3/6: Learn how to match the design theme to your objectives and the targeted presentation room. Plus how to make Master Slide Mode bring consistent logo, footers, and backgrounds to the full slide deck.

Masterclass Lesson 4/6: How to make each slide match the message. In this course, we discuss the various types of slides you can create from charts, tables, dual text, photos and more.

Masterclass Lesson 5/6: This class will help you pull everything together for a consistent, professional look that flows through the whole presentation. We cover the big picture to make sure the slides are properly structured, we cover framing the most important points of getting action on your goals, we add subtle but professional extras like slide transitions and bullet point animation (and why you might not want to use bullet animations).

Masterclass Lesson 6/6: This video tutorial will walk you through all the needed steps to get ready and then HOW to run a PowerPoint Slideshow, including a video preview of the controls and tips to best run the show (mouse? or keyboard? We will cover pros and cons). We will go over everything you need to get prepared because on-stage confidence comes from being well prepared.

Quickly learn what can and cannot be changed in PowerPoint Presenter Speaker Note formatting for both font size and background color of black. PowerPoint has limited customization of the speaker notes, learn how to zoom font size, plus the LIMITED control of the background.

Does PowerPoint Presenter Coach work? In this review, you can be the judge as we demonstrate three live examples of the Coach scoring our effectiveness. You can decide if it will help you.

We highlight our favorite presenter remote. It was the best in 2017 and is still our favorite tool in 2021: The Logitech Spotlight Presenter Remote.

Learn how to use the Logitech Spotlight Presentation Remote. It is the best presentation slide advance remote and you must learn how to maximize all the features. You spent the money, now master the remote!

When presenting PowerPoint, should I use a script? What about talking points or just plain winging it? What are the pros and cons?

Learn all about PowerPoint's speaker notes including where to edit, how to format, what formats and background color changes (and why not).

Take control of 1 or 2 or 3 multiple monitors in PowerPoint. Learn pro tricks for presenter mode and even editing while "live." The tutorial shows all three scenarios with live screen views. Plus a bonus on how to set up a conference presentation without a projector.

Optimize your PowerPoint presentation by surveying the presenting room projector or big screen TV with this projector checker file. The video walks you through the steps of how to make sure the presentation is readable and properly formatted. Includes the downloadable file.

All successful presentations must have these REQUIRED 3 PowerPoint slides: 1) a special agenda slide, 2) a closing "Call To Action" slide & 3) an ending bookend slide. Learn this simple trick that enhances your effectiveness in under six minutes and be better forever!

PowerPoint creates HUGE files. Learn four strategies to reduce the file size. Different ideas for specific needs of super compact to high fidelity images. We discuss why this is a problem and demonstrate different techniques to reduce your presentation size to fit in an email. Complete with a comparison matrix between different resolutions and PDF options.

Export PowerPoint slides as saved images such as JPG or PNG files. This solution tutorial shows how to save one slide or all slides as a .JPG or .PNG image file. Great to squeeze a smaller PowerPoint into an email. Simple and Fast!

Learn how to save and export PowerPoint as a shareable PDF document plus how to change the layout and select specific pages to exclude and include. Two bonus tricks to reduce file sizes to fit your PowerPoint Presentation inside of an email.

PowerPoint creates HUGE files. Learn four strategies to reduce the file size. Different ideas for specific needs of super compact to high fidelity images. We discuss why this is a problem and demonstrate different techniques to reduce your presentation size to fit in an email. Complete with a comparison matrix between different resolutions and PDF options.

A Quick Trick: Create an animated GIF from all your PowerPoint Slides. The tutorial covers BOTH methods, including an advanced technique to control quality, speed, and slide subsets.

Learn the two PowerPoint tools to change capitalization to Upper, Lower, Proper, and Sentence caps. Plus stylized SMALL CAPS. Hidden inside of PowerPoint are two powerful tools that let you enforce one style or fix badly typed capitalization choices. This quick tip can save you tons of retyping.

Be successful by learning how to manage your boss with a PowerPoint agenda. Remove stress and get more done through better communications and relationships with your manager.

Don't be forced to follow a slide deck one by one in linear order. Instead, create an interactive table of contents where you can click and jump to any section you want and then return back.

Resize PowerPoint BULLET and NUMBER size when wrong. This is typical when you apply a design template that breaks bullet and number sizing.

An expert video PowerPoint training on everything you need to know about COLOR SCHEMES and creating CUSTOM COLOR PALETTES. Learn about the difference between standard colors versus theme colors.

A simple tutorial to change the color of PowerPoint bullet & number lists It is easy if you know where to look. In this quick tutorial, we will show you how. Plus a BONUS of using Master Slides to fix it everywhere!

Is the Design Ideas Tool in PowerPoint grayed out or failing to give solutions? This tutorial will explain why it happens and how to fix it.

Is your PowerPoint Design Ideas MISSING? Learn if this can be fixed or confirm that your version of PowerPoint does not support Design Ideas.

PowerPoint presents you with over 200 different SmartArt layouts. This tutorial will guide you in selecting the right layout for different needs.

A beginner tutorial for PowerPoint SmartArt. Add punch to your presentation by learning how to build SmartArt from the ground up.

Learn EVERYTHING about PowerPoint SmartArt in this advanced tutorial deep dive. From SmartArt slideshow animation to full control of each element.

Learn the strategy to building unique PowerPoint Title Slides with design ideas and SmartArt. Impress your audience at the start!

Create a brainstorming mind map in PowerPoint, Word, or Excel with SmartArt. Beautiful and easy to do once you learn how. This tutorial will get you up and running with ALL you NEED to KNOW!

Visually enhance shapes on PowerPoint slides with the Arrange tool to perfectly ALIGN and DISTRIBUTE shapes. A professional-looking slide must have objects & shapes perfectly aligned and evenly distributed on each slide. Learn the Arrange tool to get done fast and right!

Every object on your PowerPoint Slide is on its own layer. Managing the objects in your slide deck is critical to creating complex designs. This tutorial will end your layer's frustration as we cover EVERYTHING you need to know from the ARRANGE tool to fine controls via the SELECTION PANE to the mystery of objects behind the "Send to Back" layers.

PowerPoint requires visual precision so use the power tools of Grids, Guidelines, Ruler, and Snap to Grid to make everything Picture Perfect. The tutorial covers everything you need to know and which tool to use when working with shapes and objects on your slide canvas.

Tutorial on CROPPING and resizing PowerPoint photos and images. Each element has different quirks. But cropping has the most power and confusion. We go DEEP into CROP!

PowerPoint can be frustrating when trying to precisely select an object and you end up moving the background or the wrong object or text placeholder. Here are seven different solutions for different situations.

Learn all you need to know about PowerPoint animation. This in-depth tutorial will make you a pro user to help bring life to your slide shows. Covers from start to advanced finish, taking control of multiple levels of animation and solving common problems.

An in-depth PowerPoint 365 Animation tutorial specifically for the Apple Mac. You will become a pro business animator bringing life to your slide shows. The tutorial covers from start to advanced finish, taking control of multiple levels of animation, and solving common problems.

Create powerful Motion Animation in PowerPoint to bring focus to your slides. The path animation tool is an advanced technique that requires guidance to take full advantage. We cover how to use this tool for both Windows and the Mac (including hidden menus) that will teach you how to take complete control of this sometimes frustrating tool.

Motion adds life to PowerPoint presentations, use any of the five different motion tools. Do you know them all? Learn what each tool does and learn which motion tool to use to bring life to your slide deck. The tools: 1) Object Animation, 2) Amination Motion Path, 3) Slide Transitions, 4) All THREE Zoom Tools, 5) Morph Transitions between slide and inside of slides. Learn not just what the tools are and how they are different from each other, but also see live examples of them all to inspire you for more.

Use the cool PowerPoint spot emphasis technique to focus your audience's attention on specific spots on your slides.

Create amazing interactive slide presentations with the PowerPoint Zoom tool. Learn all three variations.

Find the Top 10 Best Slide Transitions built into PowerPoint. Microsoft provides almost 50 different transitions to choose from. We provide our opinion of the best 10 transitions to use in professional presentations. These choices work for both boardrooms and online via Zoom or Microsoft Meetings.

Learn all you need to know about the PowerPoint Transition tool in this tutorial. Add classy transitions to your slide show and master all the required techniques. Appropriate for Windows and Apple OS from PowerPoint 2013 to the most recent Office 365.

Learn the advanced options for PowerPoint Transitions. This tutorial digs deep into all the controls, from timing to automation and five practical power Pro Tips!

Learn the cool trick of the Zoom tool to create emphasis on objects within PowerPoint Slide Show Presentations. Use interactive clicks to highlight different parts of a slide to focus the attention of your audience.

Get inspired with our PowerPoint Morph Transition Magic projects. Use professional, not cheesy, examples to take advantage of the Morph Transition tool. Covers the creation of photo albums, zoom dramatic slide entrances, timeline animation, Ken Burns effects, photo pan, and how to create your own slide transitions.

PowerPoint Characters & Words Morph is cool, unless it's BROKEN. Learn how to fix multiple issues and make animated characters and words jump off the screen!

Deep dive tutorial on PowerPoint Morph transition tool. Learn all about bringing your presentations to life with the cool morph actions from slide to slide.

Animate a PowerPoint table for a focused slide presentation. The tool that Microsoft forgot. Learn the easiest and most elegant method for animating any PowerPoint Table to take full control of presenting your data.

A sophisticated advanced tutorial on PowerPoint Slide Show creation. Quit looking for specialty templates, build your own unique look and enhance your slideshow will all the advanced slide design and transition tricks to create a beautiful cinematic slide presentation.

Learn how to turn photos into a PowerPoint slide show for special events. No previous experience is needed.

Learn everything about photo retouching and editing in PowerPoint.

If your image is crooked inside the photo frame, you can use this PowerPoint trick to fix the slanted horizon.