Create Custom Shapes Using Merge Shapes Feature

Complete PowerPoint Foundation Course

Introduction

How to Get the Best out of this Course
Important Note about New PowerPoint Features

[Get Started] How to Get Started with PowerPoint

1 How to Start PowerPoint *NEW* (1:02)
2 Start a New PowerPoint Presentation *NEW* (2:56)
3 Understanding PowerPoint Ribbon (4:57)
4 Understanding Menus and Panes (7:16)
5 Understanding Quick Access Toolbar (7:07)
Time Saver -Pin PowerPoint to Taskbar (1:14)
Useful Trick : Auto-hide PowerPoint Ribbon (2:22)
Section Review Quiz

[Get Started] How to Start Working with your Slides

Editing Your Workspace (8:55)
How to Add New Slides (3:07)
How to Choose the right slide layout (5:11)
Change Slide Size : Widescreen Vs Standard Size (4:07)
How to Reuse Slides from Another Presentation (5:36)
How to Copy Paste Slides the right way (6:49)
How to Add Notes to your Slides (5:11)
How to Save your PowerPoint File (5:29)
Useful Trick: How to Password Protect your Presentation (4:38)
Time Saver: How to Access and Pin Recently Saved Files (3:41)
Time Saver: Increase Recent Presentations (2:19)
Useful Trick: Increase number of Undos (1:28)
Section Review Quiz

[Slide Design] Get Design Consistency with Master Slides and Themes

How do Master Slides Work (10:20)
4 Situations Where You Should Use Master Slides (3:40)
How to Customize Slide Design Theme (4:18)
How to Customize Theme Colors in PowerPoint (6:08)
How to Customize Theme Fonts in PowerPoint (4:15)
How to Add Headers and Footers to Your Slides (5:37)
How to Create a New Custom Layout in PowerPoint (6:24)
Time Saver: How to Replace Fonts in PowerPoint Slide Deck (2:34)
Useful Trick: Remove Design Theme of Specific Slides (2:11)
Section Review Quiz
[New] Slide Master- Quick Overview, Troubleshooting Tips (19:04)

[Autoshapes] How to Insert and Manipulate Shapes in PowerPoint

Basics of Inserting and Manipulating shapes (6:23)
How to Apply Styles to Shapes in PowerPoint (3:08)
How to Tweak Shapes in PowerPoint (5:09)
Create Custom Shapes Using Merge Shapes Feature (6:11)
Section Review Quiz

[Shape Effects] How to work with Shape Fills and Gradients in PowerPoint

1 Understanding Shape Fill in Depth (6:21)
2 Use Eyedropper tool like a pro (7:09)
3 Fill a shape with picture or texture (9:16)
4 Understanding Gradients in detail (6:04)
5 Understanding Shape outline (7:05)
6 Understanding Line tools (13:10)
Section Review Quiz

[Shape Effects] All about 3D Effects and 3D Rotation

In-depth understanding of Shape Effects (8:02)
Understanding 3D Format Options in PowerPoint (3:40)
Understanding 3D Rotation options in PowerPoint (7:01)
3D Distance from Ground Feature (2:21)
Time Saver: The Power of Format Painter Tool (4:28)
Section Review Quiz

[Group & Align] All about Grouping and Organizing Shapes

How to Arrange and Group Shapes in PowerPoint (10:11)
How to use Smart Guides to Align Objects (4:13)
How to use Guides to Align Objects accurately (7:17)
Section Review Quiz

[Text] Basics of Writing & Formatting Text

Part 1: How to Format Text in your PowerPoint slides (6:38)
Part 2: How to Format Text in your PowerPoint slides (6:02)
3 Special Ways to Format Text (5:18)
How to work with Text Box Tool (6:20)
Section Review Quiz

[Text] More Tricks to work with Text like a Pro

How to write text in Multiple Columns in PowerPoint (3:00)
How to Format Bullet Points in PowerPoint (5:36)
2 Formulas to Insert Random Text on your Slides (2:13)
Time saver: How to use Auto Correct Option to save time (3:23)
Time saver: How to Find and Replace text quickly (2:50)
Section Review Quiz

[Text] All you need to know about Text Effects in PowerPoint

1 Basic Text Effects (3:11)
2 Understanding WordArt Styles (5:34)
3 Understanding Transform Text Effects (4:20)
4 How to create Circular Text in PowerPoint (5:27)
5 How to Fill Text with Photo in PowerPoint (3:45)
6 How to convert text to shapes (2:28)
7 How to Insert Symbols in PowerPoint (4:04)
Section Review Quiz

[Photos] How to work with Pictures like a Designer

Different ways to Insert Pictures on your slide (6:38)
How to Insert Screenshot on your slide (3:07)
How to Insert Screenclipping on your slide (3:43)
How to use PrintScreen option in PowerPoint (2:17)
Useful Trick: Tile picture as texture (3:56)
Section Review Quiz

[Photos] How to Stylize your Photos like a Pro (Without Photoshop!)

1 How to Apply Picture Styles in PowerPoint (5:41)
2 How to Apply Artistic Effects to Photos (3:29)
3 How to apply Photo Color Options (4:02)
4 How to Use Photo Correction Options (3:44)
5 Remove Picture Background in PowerPoint (3:03)
6 How to Set Transparent Color (2:05)
Section Review Quiz

[Photos] All you need to know about Cropping & Resizing Pictures

1 How to Replace pictures on your Slide easily (3:31)
2 How to resize pictures the right way (4:02)
3 How to crop pictures the right way (5:33)
4 How to crop pictures to Shape (4:55)
5 How to Compress Pictures (6:31)
Section Review Quiz

[SmartArt] How to use SmartArt with Creativity

1 How to Insert SmartArt in PowerPoint (4:31)
2 How to create a smartart graphic (5:47)
3 How to use SmartArt Styles for Stylish Graphics (5:50)
4 How to Convert SmartArt to Shapes for more Flexibility (4:04)
5 How to Insert Pictures in SmartArt (3:43)
6 Use SmartArt as a Cropping Tool (4:16)
7 How to Create Basic Org Chart using SmartArt (6:20)
Section Review Quiz

[Tables & Charts] All about using Tables in PowerPoint

1 How to Insert a Table (3:32)
2 How to Stylize the Design of your Tables (6:28)
3 How to Add More Columns & Rows To Your Tables (5:25)
Section Review Quiz

[Tables & Charts] All about using Data Driven Charts in PowerPoint

1 How to Insert a Basic Chart in PowerPoint (2:30)
2 Understanding the components of a chart (4:18)
3 Understanding Common Chart Types (4:53)
4 Create a Combination Chart (5:49)
5 Stylize your Charts (3:17)
6 Power of Quick Layout (3:53)
7 Add or Remove Chart Elements (5:09)
8 How to Format Data Labels (4:12)
9 Format Numbers in PowerPoint (5:52)
10 How to Format Axis in Charts (6:15)
11 How to Change the Data Source (4:00)
Useful Trick: How to Insert Excel Charts into PowerPoint (9:18)
Key Points to note while inserting Excel Charts (3:23)
Section Review Quiz

[Transitions] All about using Transitions in PowerPoint

1 How to Apply Transitions (2:07)
2 Manipulate Transitions (3:50)
3 Advance Slides Automatically (1:45)
Extra: Free Videos to understand Transitions better (3:00)
Section Review Quiz

[Animations] All about Professional Custom Animation

Basics of Custom Animation (3:05)
How to Apply Effect Options for Animation (3:24)
Understanding Timing of Animation (11:32)
Understanding Text Animation in Detail (5:40)
How to apply Multiple Custom Animation to an Element (3:54)
In-depth understanding of Animation Effect Options (4:21)
Understand Motion Path Animation (9:28)
All About Using Trigger Animations (4:51)
How to Animate SmartArt (1:59)
How to Animate a Chart in PowerPoint (4:27)
Useful Trick: How to Reuse Animations easily (4:42)
Time Saver: How to Remove All Custom Animation (2:09)
Section Review Quiz

[Interactivity] Adding Interactivity with Action Buttons & Hyperlinks

How to create Interactivity using Action Buttons (8:10)
How to Hyperlink Slides to create interactive deck (4:20)
How to create Mouse Over Effect in PowerPoint (3:15)
Section Review Quiz

[Audio & Video] Adding Multimedia To Your Presentations

How to Add YouTube Videos to Your Presentation (3:15)
How to Add Music to Your Presentation (4:13)
How to Record your own Voice (2:42)
How to do Screen Recording in PowerPoint (5:55)
How to Trim Audio or Video in PowerPoint (6:03)
Video Playback Options You Should Know (5:35)
Stylize and Format Videos like a Pro (8:25)
How to Add Bookmarks to Audio and Video (3:24)
How to Add Animation to Bookmarks (5:08)
Section Review Quiz

[Microsoft 365] PowerPoint Designer - One Click to Beautiful Slide Designs

How to Turn on the PowerPoint Designer feature (1:49)
Create Awesome Title Slides with PowerPoint Designer (2:58)
Assignment: Design a Title Slide
Create Better Bullet Point Slides with Designer (3:15)
Create Beautiful Picture Slides with PowerPoint Designer (2:37)
How to Customize Designer Slides Even Further (5:02)
Section Review Quiz

[Microsoft 365] Zoom Feature - Easy way to make Interactive Slide Decks

1 How to Divide your Slide Deck into Sections (4:49)
2 Build Interactive Slide Deck with Summary Zoom (3:37)
3 Build an interesting Section Zoom Slide (3:48)
4 Zoom and Rotate to New Slides with Slide Zoom Feature (3:01)
Section Review Quiz

[Microsoft 365] PowerPoint Morph - Dynamic Slides without Custom Animation

Understanding How Morph Transition Works (4:39)
Create a beautiful Terms and Definition Slide with Morph (5:53)
Present 3D Models in Style using Morph Transition (5:11)
Create word magic with Character Morph Transition (3:59)
Section Review Quiz

[Microsoft 365] 11 Useful yet Unknown Features of Microsoft 365

1 How to Dictate Text using PowerPoint (1:57)
2 How to Edit SVG Images right inside PowerPoint (3:32)
3 Discover New Free Icons & Edit them in PowerPoint (3:28)
4 Photo Attribution made easy by PowerPoint (2:51)
5 How to Ink Math Equations in PowerPoint (3:06)
6 Power of Smart Lookup option in PowerPoint (2:31)
7 How to Share your presentation with others (3:37)
8 How to Customize the look of your PowerPoint Interface (3:45)
9 Time Saver: Find Tools Instantly with Tell Me Feature (1:34)
NEW FEATURE: PowerPoint 365 Animated 3D Model (3:08)
NEW FEATURE: Sketchy Shapes PPT 365 (4:56)
Section Review Quiz

[Save & Print] Creating Self Running Presentations

Save Presentation as Slideshow (4:03)
How to create a Photo Album (7:45)
Set up Interactive Kiosk Presentations (5:36)
Section Review Quiz

[Save & Print] How to Save your Presentation in Different Formats

Save your Presentation as PDF (4:44)
Save your Presentation as Video (2:29)
Save your presentation as a Template (3:23)
Save your Slide as a Picture (2:07)
How to Export as a Picture Presentation (3:57)
Section Review Quiz

[Save & Print] All about Printing your Slides

How to Print Your Slides in Black and White (5:17)
Print Handouts and Notes Pages (4:40)
Section Review Quiz

[Finishing Up] How to Review your Presentations

Check Spelling in PowerPoint (3:28)
Add Comments to your presentation (4:15)
Add Handwritten Notes (6:10)
Section Review Quiz

[Slideshow] How to Present your Slides like a Pro

How to Create Custom Slide Shows (4:40)
How to use Presenter View to present like a Pro (8:18)
Time Saver: Useful Shortcuts during Slide Show (6:49)
Useful Trick: Use Hidden Slides for Back up (6:52)
Section Review Quiz

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