Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2013: Getting Started with PowerPoint

Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2013:

Getting Started With PowerPoint

H. Albert Napier, Ph.D. and Ollie N. Rivers

Course Description

Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2013: Getting Started with PowerPoint is a three-lesson basic level course that guides you through creating and opening PowerPoint presentations; inserting, reorganizing, and deleting slides; applying a design theme and switching between different PowerPoint views. 


You learn how to insert various types of content on slides, such as bulleted lists, tables, charts, shapes, pictures, SmartArt graphics and sound clips. You also learn how run a slide show and how to preview and print audience handouts.


You learn how to add animation and transition effects to slides. You also learn how to create a custom design theme and a custom template, which you use to create a new presentation. 


Next you learn how to integrate Excel workbook data and charts in a presentation using copy and paste. You learn how to add footer text, a date and slide numbers to slides. 


Then you learn how to run a full-screen slide show using slide show controls. Finally, you learn how to run a slide show in Presenter view.


Note that this course emphasizes using traditional keyboard and mouse actions to perform tasks in PowerPoint and Excel 2013. Some relevant tips for working with PowerPoint 2013 with a Windows 8 touch-screen device are also provided.


TOUCH TIP

The Napier & Rivers course Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2013: Getting Started with PowerPoint Using a Touch Screen emphasizes using finger gestures (instead of mouse actions) and some keyboard actions to perform tasks in PowerPoint.



Although this is a basic level course, experienced PowerPoint users switching to PowerPoint 2013 also benefit from this course, which reinforces how to use a variety of PowerPoint tools in addition to introducing new and improved PowerPoint 2013 features, such as the Start screen, wide-screen slide size, new charting tools and the very useful Presenter view.