University of Southern Indiana

Microsoft PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

This is a class for current PowerPoint users looking to further hone their PowerPoint skills. This three-hour session will focus on tips and tricks to make PowerPoint easier to use and make your presentations better.

Participants in this course will learn features of Microsoft PowerPoint including:

  • Creating an outline in Microsoft Word and turning it into a PowerPoint presentation
  • Replacing fonts in a presentation
  • Creating numbered or lettered callout shapes on a slide
  • Formatting a presentation using slide masters
  • Using the symbols menu to add symbols and special characters to text
  • Adding a background to all slides in a presentation
  • Adjusting an image’s color, brightness or sharpness
  • Playing inserted audio or video automatically in a presentation
  • Automatically advancing a slide in an otherwise manually-timed presentation
  • Reliably playing video originally on YouTube in a presentation
  • Using Slide Zooming to create shortcuts in a presentation

If you would like more information on having this program brought to your site, please contact Paula Nurrenbern, manager, customized solutions at 812-461-5425 or pjnurrenbe@usi.edu.

Contact Paula Nurrenbern

×

Send Email to

×