PowerPoint for Windows 2010 Book

Setup & Introduction

Downloading the Class Files

Section 1

Setting Up: Do This Before Other Exercises!

• Setting up your class files

Setting Up Master Slides

• Adding background images
• Editing text
• Adjusting bullets & indents
• Creating effective color themes
• Applying theme colors to bullets
• Positioning placeholders

Title Slide Layout

• Formatting the Title Master
• Cleaning up the Master Slides

Using Images in PowerPoint

• Inserting images
• Adding shapes

Testing Master Slides

• Deciding how many slides to style
• Testing the Master Slide set

Section 2

Formatting Pasted Text

• Pasting content into a template
• Copying & pasting entire slides
• Creating a custom layout
• Intro to alignment
• Arranging text boxes & shapes

Laying Out a Quote Slide

• Setting up the content
• Formatting lines
• Adding credentials
• Formatting grouped text boxes
• Adding quotation marks

Picture Slides

• Creating a 1-picture slide
• Using shapes as custom placeholders
• Cropping images to preserve their aspect ratio
• Creating a 2-picture slide

Aligning & Distributing Logos

• Inserting multiple images
• Aligning & distributing multiple objects

Section 3

Working with Shapes

• Advanced gradients
• Adding a 3D bevel effect
• Accelerating the workflow with Quick Styles
• Formatting text in shapes & fixing text overflow
• Grouping shapes

Highlighting Sections with Divider Slides

• More shadow settings
• More shape groups
• More 3D effects
• Emphasizing the current section

Tables

• Creating a new table
• Adding/copying content into a new table
• Auto-adjusting size & distributing cells
• Table styles & border formatting
• Creating a custom table header
• Using drawing guides to align content

Laying Out a Contact Slide

• Aligning multiple text boxes
• More shape formats
• Resizing shapes to fit text

Section 4

Line Charts

• Formatting the x-axis & y-axis
• Formatting data series, legends, & gridlines
• Showing exact values with data labels

Pie Charts

• Inserting & formatting a doughnut chart
• Entering chart data in Excel
• More legends & data labels
• Working with categories
• Enhancing the chart’s appearance with shapes

Column Charts

• Deciding which chart best displays the data
• Converting existing charts
• Adding data labels above a chart

Transitions

• Applying a transition to all slides via Master Slides
• Overriding an inherited transition

Laying Out a Map Slide

• Reusing effects for consistent design
• City markers: complex line & shape groups
• More gradients, shadows, & text in shapes

Bonus Material

Sections

• Adding & renaming sections in Slide Sorter view
• Arranging slides into sections
• Adding divider slides at the start of each section

Animation

• Adding an animation & setting Effect Options
• Copying & pasting with the Animation Painter
• Sequencing multiple animation effects
• Animating a chart

Advanced Layouts: Hierarchical Chart

• How to make bold text look even bolder
• Using elbow connectors & lines to connect shapes
• Animating the chart: advanced timing & sequences

Recreating a Flat Chart Based on a Picture

• Using a table to reproduce a chart
• Quickly selecting rows & columns
• Tick marks: line distribution & arrangement
• Distributing Text boxes via duplication
• Using shapes to reproduce value bars

Advanced Layouts: The Game Show

• Advanced text styling: line spacing & avoiding overflow
• Using transitions to create a 2-slide motion sequence
• Working with Motion Paths
• Custom tabs: adding hidden tools to the Ribbon
• Combining shapes to create a rounded frame

Reference Material