PowerPoint 2013: Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts

Make your PowerPoint presentations dazzle with these expert tips and tricks from David Rivers. Designed to help you use PowerPoint 2013 more efficiently, this course begins with the top 10 tips you should know, including how to repurpose slides from other presentations, create custom shapes and animations, and insert online video into a slide. From there, the course offers pro tips on managing files; using little-known keyboard shortcuts; getting the most out of your text, objects, and media; sharing your presentations; and much more.

Need quick tips and shortcuts for other Office apps? Check out our other Power Shortcuts courses.

Topics include:

• Matching colors, with the Eyedropper tool
  
• Zooming in to highlight details
  
• Quickly accessing recent files
  
• Reducing file sizes
  
• Opening Word docs in PowerPoint
  
• Customizing the Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar
  
• Navigating slideshows from the keyboard
  
• Adding headers, footers, and dates
  
• Customizing clip art
  
• Creating 3D shapes and the perfect gradient
  
• Animating bulleted lists
  
• Coordinating transitions
  
• Removing private and proprietary metadata
  
• Sharing your presentation in the cloud
  
• Saving a presentation as a template