1. PowerPoint Day 1 Credibility Builder
This is a “You’ve barely used it” class, so if you’ve used it before stay tuned for advanced tricks

2. Introduction to PowerPoint 2013
We’ve all been part of bad powerpoints and good powerpoints.
We’ve all had frustrations trying to use PPT
Today we’re going to make it amazing and easy to use.
Been using it for 15 years
How many of you are taking slides from other people’s PPTs, how many of you are copying and pasting and running into problems.
This is a “you’ve never seen it before class”, but if you’ve used it, keep your ears open for advanced tricks as we go
We’ve all had frustrations trying to use PPT
We’ve all seen BAD PPTs
Today we’re going to learn how to make it easy, and amazing.
How many of you have to copy and paste from other presentations?

3. BAD POWERPOINTs
We’ve all seen BAD PowerPoints right?

4. Ctrl N Ctrl M Handy Shortcuts New Presentation One More Slide
Creating New Presentations

5. Layouts
Don’t Move Content Boxes
Choose the Layout you need!

6. Slide Dimensions
vs.
Standard
Widescreen

7. Inserting and formatting text
Themes for our storyline
PowerPoint Tips from Psych class (you’re lucky!)
How many bullets can you have?
Difference in Text sizes, Big vs. Small
What’s the right size for text? 32 pt absorbtion
Each slide is a note for today’s course
Priority should be on text at the top
Larger is more important
Need to be noticeable
Show examples by duplicating slides, and making the title way bigger on one
20pt is unreadable by at least someone in the room
36 is absorption
Align to Left, line up text

8. Adding bulleted lists Adding bullets
Have them add the font size bullets we just mentioned
Managing bullets (making them look different)
Make sure that the bullets you’ve chosen tells the right story, i.e. has to do with your topic
Numbered vs. Bullets
Text alignment and paragraph spacing to group topics and details about those topics
No more than 4 bullet points
Most things that are sub-bulleted are things that can be said out loud (move to speaker notes)

9. Appropriate Bullets This is a list Of Things About Something
First This
Then This
And Finally This
Finished This
Completed This
Accomplished This
These are silly
And have no purpose
So let’s avoid them

11. Adding text boxes Adding text boxes as callouts
Adding text boxes to show the number that’s important on a chart

12. Advanced Text Formatting
Word Art

13. Format Painter Use it on a formatted text box
You can double-click on it, to make it persist
Also talk about the Reset button in case you’ve done too much
F4 will also re-do the last action,
Change a word to red
Click on another word and click F4

14. Overview of the various PowerPoint views
Advantages of the different views
Slide Sorter – Copy, Paste and Reorder other people’s PPTs
This section was previously at the beginning of the module.
Sections – easy to see how many slides are in each portion of your presentation
If multiple presenters are using the same deck, and you want to re-arrange presenters, you can easily move a whole section around.
Visualize portions of PPT and transitions, segregates like in a movie

15. Running the Slideshow

16. Module 2

17. Graphic Design with Basic Shapes
Create a Circle that highlights something we need to look at on this slide.
Or a box that we need to put on a slide
Arrows to point to something
Changing angles with the yellow anchors
Edit points
Put a wide rectangle at the bottom, to create a floor
Put shapes behind text that you want to stand out (rectangle that goes all the way across the slide
Put in an arrow to point out an item that’s important
Let them play

18. Working with Colors Shape Styles Save as Default Shape
Choose No Fill, then set as default shape, then you can make all kinds of outlining shaped
Gradients, if time

19. Grouping and ungrouping objects
Draw a picture, and group it together
Hand done diagram, group it together like a hand done smart art
Then when we talk about smart art, people like it better

20. Layering (reordering) objects
Selection Pane
Show an example of when it would be helpful

21. Instructor Topics Only - Merging shapes
Show how merging options can give you the shape you want, if that shape isn’t available.

22. Inserting & editing pictures from a file
PPT Psych throw-ins
People (we empathize with people)
No Background
Slid part-way off the screen (sparks imagination)
Use Google and Bing to find images that are labelled for re-use “creative commons”
Never use clip art!!!
Crop and remove background
Create Space (don’t jam pictures right up on text)

23. Inserting Screenshots
Then put a picture Style on it, it’ll make it look better

24. Adding slide transitions
Fade
Fade through black for content transitions

25. Introduction to animating to text and objects
Show animations to smart art objects (effect objects, “one by one”)

26. Running a slideshow

27. Adding speaker notes
Creating Handouts with Notes from the backstage view
You can change the size of speaker notes (not in the computer view, but when you print them out they’ll be bigger)

28. Using wide screen versus standard size slides

29. Printing slides, speaker notes and handouts