Welcome to this introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint. PowerPoint is the presentation tool in the Microsoft Office Suite. It allows us to create professional and engaging presentations. Today I'll show you a brief example of how to create such a presentation from scratch. When you first open a brand new presentation in PowerPoint, you essentially get one blank slide, it's defaulted to have a title and a subtitle. There's no design to on the left-hand side here would eventually be the list of all of our slides. As you saw with Word and Excel, we do have zoom controls in the bottom right-hand corner, as well as a menu of banners or ribbons across the top of PowerPoint. As we get started, there's also a Notes button at the bottom of the screen here. I can click on that and I can expand this note section. Here I can have slide notes, my slide notes, and this will help keep me on track as I actually conduct my presentation later on. To get started is really simple. If I want to add a title, this will be My awesome presentation, and maybe you want to have your name or something here in the subtitle, so I've got a title slide, and to add additional slides to my presentation on the home ribbon, there's a button here for new slide. I could just click on the button that says new slide, and I would get a defaulted blank slide here. I can also use the drop-down arrow and choose the layout of the content that I want. If I know that I'm going to use a picture with a caption, I can do that or if I'm going to compare a couple of items, I can get a defaulted layout for that as well. I can also change the layout on a slide that's already provided for me. If I don't want title and content here, I can use the layout button in the Home ribbon and see that same type of menu. This is for an existing slide, I can change to a different type of layout. Maybe I'll start with an agenda and I'll have several discussion points on my agenda. Then let's do another slide here and we'll say this versus that. Now I might want to change the layout to comparison. You can see I get this versus that. There's a simple comparison between two items on a slide. Now, our presentation looks a little dry, a little boring so far. One really nice feature of PowerPoint, and now I can navigate across my slides here I'm going to go back to the title slide at the beginning. Again, staying with that Home ribbon all the way to the right-hand side, I have a button for design ideas. This is a powerful feature in PowerPoint. If I click design ideas and give it just a moment, PowerPoint will generate some different ideas based on the content that's on this slide. Now it's going to start to apply some theming for me. You can see some of them have transitions built into them, where these two are fading in to start the presentation, a nice touch. If I scroll down here, there are many options, as well as a button at the bottom that says see more design ideas. There are many more options than what it gives you here as well. I happen to like this first one, so let's use that. You can see as soon as I click on that, my slide is updated with that particular design idea. I can continue to do that for each of the subsequent slides in my deck. Maybe I like this one and this one. It does not have a design idea for this comparison slide. That's okay, it's not always going to do that. What we can do instead is go to the Design ribbon here and we may want to just choose a theme, maybe I want this theme. Now I get a little bit of design on every slide that I create. You can see now that theme is also overriding what I had originally selected for my slide designs. Now if I go back to the Home ribbon here and add a new slide, it will automatically include my theme. If I want to ensure that I'm carrying a consistent theme through the entire slide deck or the presentation, I can choose a design theme. Now, let's add in animations or transitions between our slides. We saw already that this first slide had a little bit of an animation when it first loads in, but oftentimes when you go between slides, you'd like to have a little bit of transition animation as well. There's a transition menu here and there are many different transitions that you can use in PowerPoint depending on how creative or professional you want the presentation to appear, there are many options. Out for now, I'll just use the fade option here. You can see you can change the duration, you can add sound if you'd like to, and you can tell PowerPoint how and when to execute that transition. I typically leave it on mouse Clicked, and I do not set a timing on it. I do like this button here on the right-hand side Apply to all so that means all of my slides now get this fade transition animation. Now my presentation is ready to be presented, I'm ready to give this presentation. In the bottom of this window, there is a button that looks like a projector screen, that's my slideshow screen. If I click on that, I'm running two monitors here so you're seeing the output currently. By click on that, you'll see what the audience would see in my presentation here. As I click through the presentation, you will see the slides that we have built out, that blank slide at the end. Now, I also can make PowerPoint show you the presenter mode, which I'll switch my screens and show that to you now. Now I'm in presenter mode and you can see this would be the content of your first screen however, my version of PowerPoint is having an issue showing my current slide. Then you'll have your next slide in this window here and then any slide notes. Remember we typed in my slide notes earlier, any slide notes you have will be available on screen for you. You also, if you right-click here, you have pointer options. You can use a laser pointer which will show up on the screen, you can hide that pointer or you can use an arrow or a pen as well or you can also highlight various content on the presentation while you're presenting. You can change the laser color, you can change the pen color. Lots of interactive options here for you. Then at the bottom of the screen will be listed all of your slides as well. If for some reason you need to jump to a different slide, you can just click on that particular slide and it will jump to it. One final note here, right-clicking once again will let me swap displays and we'll be back to seeing that Audience View. If you want to see the pointer options and see that laser pointer, now you can see when I move my mouse around, I get a laser pointer and if I don't want it to be red, I can change that to green. Pretty simple options there. Hitting Escape will take you out of presenter mode and back into the slide deck designer. So that's a quick run of Microsoft PowerPoint.
