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PowerPoint Crash Course - Design and Animation in Microsoft PowerPoint

teacher avatar Andrew Pach ⭐, PowerPoint, Animation & Video Expert

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Topics include illustration, design, photography, and more

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:09

    • 2.

      Download Resources

      0:49

    • 3.

      01-01. Statement

      3:59

    • 4.

      01-02. Versions

      3:42

    • 5.

      01-03. Learn on the Fly

      3:35

    • 6.

      01-04. PowerPoint Overview

      4:45

    • 7.

      01-05. Comparison to Camtasia and AE

      4:36

    • 8.

      02-01. Working Area and Slide Section

      3:18

    • 9.

      02-02. Coloring features

      3:35

    • 10.

      02-03. Arrangement and Selection Pane

      2:18

    • 11.

      Leave a Review, Please

      0:32

    • 12.

      02-04. Drag and Drop

      3:21

    • 13.

      02-05. Working with Pictures

      3:23

    • 14.

      02-06. Format Panel

      3:36

    • 15.

      02-07. Guides and Rulers

      2:13

    • 16.

      02-08. Example Project

      2:51

    • 17.

      03-01. Shift, Ctrl and F5

      4:26

    • 18.

      03-02. Ctrl C, Ctrl D, Ctrl V

      1:53

    • 19.

      03-03. Ctrl G, Ctrl Shift G

      3:16

    • 20.

      03-04. Ctrl B, I, U

      2:33

    • 21.

      03-05. Text enlarging

      1:07

    • 22.

      03-06. Quick Access Toolbar

      3:29

    • 23.

      03-07. Shortcuts Practice Example

      1:58

    • 24.

      04-01. Working with Text

      4:47

    • 25.

      04-02. Adding Shapes

      2:42

    • 26.

      04-03. Shape Effects

      3:11

    • 27.

      04-04. Subtracting

      4:37

    • 28.

      04-05. Slide 1 - Title

      4:23

    • 29.

      04-06. Alignment

      4:22

    • 30.

      04-07. Slide 2 - Team

      4:53

    • 31.

      04-08. Slide 3 - Thank You

      4:32

    • 32.

      05-01. Main Animations and Animation Pane

      2:15

    • 33.

      05-02. Multiple Animations

      2:46

    • 34.

      05-03. Types of Animations

      3:50

    • 35.

      05-04. Animation Options

      2:56

    • 36.

      05-05. Animaiton Project 1

      3:29

    • 37.

      05-06. Transitions

      3:41

    • 38.

      05-07. Animation Project 2

      3:45

    • 39.

      05-08. Morph

      4:12

    • 40.

      05-09. Zoom

      3:27

    • 41.

      06-01. Disclaimer

      0:55

    • 42.

      06-02. Inkscape and Illustrator

      3:59

    • 43.

      06-03. Slide Design 4 - Our Office

      3:35

    • 44.

      06-04. PowerPoint Charts

      4:25

    • 45.

      06-05. Recording Videos

      4:21

    • 46.

      06-06. Customizing colors

      4:58

    • 47.

      06-07. Templates

      3:57

    • 48.

      06-08. Layouts

      5:22

    • 49.

      Thank You!

      1:18

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About This Class

In this PowerPoint class, You will learn all the most used tools of this software in a concise form. Lectures will be short and precise to make sure you will stay focused on the content. 

I. PowerPoint Overview - Here we will talk about why should you learn PowerPoint, what is the program used for, and how it compares to different programs. I'll also explain our approach and the way I'm going to make the most of your time while watching this skillshare class

II. Beginner - Fundamentals of PowerPoint I always keep introductions and theoretical lectures to a minimum, but we have to start somewhere. Before you can make a real PowerPoint Presentation or PowePoint Animation or even use PowerPoint Design for any of your projects we need to learn the basics about the software. 

III. Best shortcuts for PowerPoint - Between the beginner and intermediate sections I'd like to expand your general knowledge by focusing on shortcuts and good practices. This will become handy when we actually make a PowerPoint presentation or PowerPoint Animation.

IV. Intermediate - Slide Designs to Follow - Here we will accelerate and design beautiful slides in Microsoft PowerPoint for presentations. Presentation design is an essential workflow and feature of PowerPoint and I want you to start making exceptional slides right away.

V. PowerPoint Animation - Microsoft PowerPoint is a program that handles animations very well and easily, here I will explain to you the nitty gritty about its features and what to look out for

VI. Advanced PowerPoint techniques - The culmination will be learning how to record videos or make PowerPoint templates. A PowerPoint template is usually difficult to understand but with help of this class, since you mastered plenty of other topics in the previous sections already you will now be comfortable learning about it.

Along the way, I share a lot of PowerPoint tips, good practices, and dry humor, so if that is your cup of tea you will be welcome.

If you are ready to learn simply start watching the class and I will be with you every step of the way...good luck!

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Andrew Pach ⭐

PowerPoint, Animation & Video Expert

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Hi! My name is Andrew Pach and if you want to learn PowerPoint you are definately in the right spot! To my friends I'm known as 'Nigel'! I am an After Effects / PowerPoint / video / graphic design junkie eager to teach people how to utilize their yet uncovered raw design talent! I run a YouTube channel called "andrew pach" which I do with absolute joy and passion. Here on Skillshare, I would like to share interesting, project-based classes that will make your design workflow a greater experience. If you look below you can select any of my PowerPoint classes to learn from them! 

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1. Introduction: You'd like to learn PowerPoint or expand your knowledge without spending 10 h on a dedicated course, you are in the right place. Instead of showing you all the tools you can see in the menu, I'll only briefly walk you through the software and then teach you with practical projects for real-world usage. No matter if beginner or advanced Windows or Mac user, I'd love you to take a look at the structure of this course. In the beginner part, I'll explain a bit about PowerPoint itself and go over your workflow, including all necessary shortcuts. In the intermediate part will design slides and practice animations. At the end, we moved into advanced territory, showing you how to create videos, custom shapes, and PowerPoint templates. Hello, my name is Andrew. I'm an experienced PowerPoint instructor and it'll be an honor guiding you through the lectures and being there with you. If you are interested to learn PowerPoint that way, start watching the class and I'll see you inside in a moment. 2. Download Resources: One of the strong points of this course will be the resources. You need to download the resources and after unzipping them, you will have access to all the files that we'll work on. E.g. you will not have to download any photos from third-party websites because the photos will be included right here to work on the slides. And under little project that I'll give you the same for the actual PowerPoint files. I'll share PowerPoint files with those practice examples. So we can work together on pictures, on animations, on shapes, on different tools that I will slowly introduce here. If you want to download the resources for the class, simply head over to the projects and resources. On the right side, there should be the correct zip file to download, unpack and work together with me. This is everything we need to start. See you in the upcoming lecture. 3. 01-01. Statement: In this lecture, we'll have our first little exercise. I want to make a statement. This is a PowerPoint crash course and I will take a practical approach to teaching you as loud as possible about the software. Let's dive right in. Since I mentioned that this is a crash course, it will take approximately 3 h depending on how much content I will add later on. And it would be nice if you know a tiny bit about the Microsoft Office Suite. Maybe you've worked in Word and Excel. Maybe you've already used PowerPoint in the past. If not, don't worry. I've designed this course specifically for all levels. What does that mean? That means that beginners, we'll learn the software gradually over the lectures. But advanced users will also gain a lot of knowledge because I'll try to work with shortcuts, altitude, proper usage of all the tools that we will use here. If PowerPoint, until this point was a mystery to you, and I'll tell you, why should you learn it? Because this is a presentation software. It is capable of adding animations and you can create videos, just like I'm doing now in front of you. What I've created here is done completely in PowerPoint, okay? So to recap, here, you will learn to confidently work in PowerPoint design presentations, use animations within your work. This could be one example. You would learn how to create a timeline, how to add all the shapes, change the colors, and then how to add animations into it. I'm not saying that you will make this exact example, but I think you understand what I mean. If you know me or any of my courses, you know, that I like a practical approach. Instead of just talking about PowerPoint tools. I'll gradually bring them in as we work on examples. If you have downloaded the resources, please open section two and the according PowerPoint file called PowerPoint overview. Unless something changes, the file should be called like this. You can open it. Your first task is to make this object on the right side to the same color as the one on the left side. How can we do this? You can click on the shape. You can go to Shape, Format, Shape, Fill, open the Shape Fill Options. And we have predefined colors here that I defined for this presentation. And you can simply click on the purple. Alright, I'll press Control Z to show you the second way. The second way to recover it would be clicking on Shape Fill and using the eyedropper. The oldest versions of PowerPoint didn't have the eyedropper like the 2007 version, but all newer versions should have the eyedropper. The eyedropper is here, I think in PowerPoint format. You need to click on more fill colors. And the eyedropper will be there on the bottom. The eyedropper allows you simply to click on a different shape and borrow or steal the color that it had. This would be option number two. Now, for advanced users, option number three would be selecting the left object, going to home and using the Format Painter. The Format Painter is a beautiful tool. If you are completely new, it might be a bit weird to use that, but I want to show you what PowerPoint is capable of. You can select the Format Painter. It's basically a magic painting over tool. We have a shape that is purple and has white texts in it. And if I click on the second shape Width, Format Painter selected, it has painted the entire formatting from the left object into the right object. This is it. This is how you can change the color of the shape. I think this is completely enough for the first lecture. Thank you so much for starting the course. If you can, please try recoloring the right object. And we'll see each other in the next lecture. 4. 01-02. Versions: You can relax. You won't have to do anything within this lecture. However, I need to mention different PowerPoint versions and also teach you a tiny bit of history. Up until PowerPoint 2003, we had this simple menu where all the features were somewhere here. Later on in 2007, the ribbon system was introduced. What is meant by the ribbon system? The ribbon system is where the Home Insert Design animations. Different tabs have different options, group together. At first, I was skeptical as I saw this and I didn't understand the change. But after a while using it, I knew where this is going and it actually felt really good and enjoyable to use. This is why this was kept for so long and developed to add different features into those categories. It's simply easier to navigate. There were different PowerPoint versions. It was 2007 that introduced the ribbon system. But then we had for Windows 2010, 13, 16, 19 newer versions. For Mac. It was a different story format. At first we had their PowerPoint 2011 version. I didn't like that one. It lacks a lot of features, but PowerPoint doesn't a little bit better. 2019 and newer versions are getting a little bit closer to the Windows version. And I think this is a good change. I of course, will recommend you to use the Microsoft 365 subscription because this way you will have always the newest available PowerPoint version. Absolutely. Do not worry. If you have an older version, it shouldn't be a big issue for this course. It would be nice if you have PowerPoint 2019 because those versions introduced the Zoom and more feature, and I'll tell you a little bit about them, but it's not mandatory to have them. So, can I take this course with my version? I have 2007, I have 2013, I have 2011 for Mac. Yes, absolutely. You can. Of course, you will elect a few features, but there aren't anything major. And you should be capable of not only finishing this course, but learning a lot about the feature that you missed. And you will be able to use them without any problems. If you upgrade PowerPoint in the future, it's not possible that all students will have the Microsoft 365 subscription because the older versions are just as good and are a stand alone purchase. One thing about the Mac version, I mentioned, it's a tiny bit different. But by tiny, I mean, some features are in different places, e.g. on the Mac version, when you open the animation pane here on the right side, you have the animations and you have the Effect Options, timing options, and trigger options right under it to open as a panel. On Windows, you have basically the same, just a tiny bit different. If you go to the Animations tab, you open the animation pane, which is a pain that showcases you all animations. You need to double-click on the animation. Once you double-click on it, you are going to the Effect Options, the timing options, and the trigger options. Just as on-demand version, you can see tiny differences, but you should be able to find your way around. And I'll try to mention this as much as possible when working with those options. I don't own personally a Mac machine to I can't really test this out. I have plenty of students who informed me about those features. So we should be able to work together on this and learn new things. This is all I wanted to mention about different PowerPoint versions. We should be now prepared and good to go see you in the next lecture. 5. 01-03. Learn on the Fly: In this lecture, we will make a small practice example where we learn to change the color and duplicate objects. Learn on the fly. I promised that I will not go tool after tool after tool, but I will gradually introduce new things while we actually work within PowerPoint. Within this lecture, I'd like to make an exercise with you. I've designed a very simple timeline. This timeline is green here. This is what I want you to achieve. I want you to open the resources, open the section to PowerPoint overview file. And this slide will be the one you are working on. I want you to make this slide exactly the same, like this slide. Let me show you how to do this. We need to change everything to green and we need to duplicate several objects. Let us start first by taking this line. By taking, I mean clicking on it. If you click on the line, you can open the Shape Format tab that appeared. I will later explain why this appears. Coloring lines like that isn't about filling them, about changing their outline. You need to click on the outline and I want you to use the green one. Select the green color, nice. Now click separately on the yellow object. Press your Shift key and select the second yellow object. This way, we selected both at the same time to not waste any time. Since we selected boat. We can now again go to the Shape Format or it's already open. Open the shape, fill, and select the green as well. Beautiful. The last thing we want to do to make those slides perfectly alike is to duplicate that to additional information boxes. You can select multiple items, either by clicking on them, pressing your Shift key down, and clicking on other objects, or by clicking and dragging. But be careful, you need to select the entire object, e.g. look at the green one. If I select it like that, it doesn't select. But if I select the whole object and you can check how big the whole object is by clicking on it. You can see it is big as that. Especially for texts, this is important because text is usually a little bigger than the actual texts. So I'll make sure to click here, select everything like that. Release my click. I've selected all three objects at once. Altitude. The first shortcut that will be Control D, like duplicate Control or Command D to duplicate those items and just put them on the right side. You don't have to be precise right now. I just wanted to make sure that you are capable of selecting multiple items and duplicating them, duplicate them one more time. And since I have a newer version of PowerPoint, PowerPoint tries to automatically put this to the right side. In older versions, it will appear like that. But in the newer version, since I've already positioned this object here, it will try to position it. Similarly. This is all I wanted for you to create in this lecture. Remember, you can down and select multiple items at once. Or you can click on item number one, press your shift key, click on the next item, click on the next item and select multiple items like that. Please try to do this exercise and we'll see each other in another lecture. See you. 6. 01-04. PowerPoint Overview: You know that I prefer a practical approach to teaching, but for people who are new to PowerPoint, I need to explain, at least with one lecture, what's going on here. The big advantage of learning PowerPoint. Let's start with the ribbon system is how simple the layout is, and how little tools are there that are actually used all the time? The most used tool will be inserting shapes, inserting textboxes. And when you select something, you click on something. You have the most important tools here. But first things first, the ribbon system is the system that I've already mentioned. And tools are grouped within the ribbon system that most important tabs will be inserted. Animations, in my opinion, when I will tell you to go to the Insert tab, you should click here. When I will tell you to insert a shape, you should click here and use the selected shape. One important note, if you have a smaller monitor, it might be that PowerPoint will group items like this. Don't worry about that because it's still all the features are here that are simply group because PowerPoint is a responsive software, the Illustrations group simply became one icon that you have to open and you have all the tools that you had previously here. Okay, The next thing, slides. Slides are essentially your scenes within PowerPoint. What I like about PowerPoint, that they can simply click on a slide and I can change its position on the fly. If I feel I need to change the organization of it, I can select the slide, press Shift, select a slight on the bottom. I can delete all of them basically at once if I need to. Let me press Control Z to bring them back. And one nice thing about PowerPoint is that since newer versions, I think it was introduced in 2013, you can right-click and select Add Section. Adding section allows us to add different groups of slides. And it's very easy to organize yourself like I did here for this presentation that I'm showing you. Okay, next step is the working area. The working area is exactly here. What you see in front of you. Nothing more, nothing less. Basically, normally when you open PowerPoint, you will see this white background. This is your starting canvas. And what I like about PowerPoint is that I can press Maya, Let's Control key. And I can use my mouse wheel to simply go in closer and further away. You can also use the shortcut. If you're on a Mac with a plus sign, please test it out because I don't have a plus sign right now. I have a 60% keyboard. And one other way, we will be going here on the right bottom side. On the right bottom side, you can quickly enlarge as light. You can make it smaller or larger. This way, if you prefer this navigation on the right side. The last thing in this lecture, which I absolutely enjoy about PowerPoint are the specific types. Let me show this on an example. This is a PowerPoint shape. I'm clicking on this PowerPoint shape. And what has appeared actually a completely new tab called Shape Format PowerPoint for our convenience, put all the most important and most used tools here. In reality, the most used tools will be the filling options, the text filling options, and the alignment options. In my opinion, of course, the size is also important, but I rarely use the Shape Styles. So those would be the most important things. I can quickly change the shape fill. I can quickly change the text field. I can quickly give it an effect like e.g. grow or reflection. Shadow. Of course shadow will be the most used because it's the most normal effect here. There aren't many effects in PowerPoint, so don't worry, we'll learn a thing or two about them. The second thing, a picture, I'm clicking on the picture. And a new tab has appeared called picture format. And again, PowerPoint brings us the most important tools related to pictures. Within pictures, of course the most important will be the cropping. In future. I can click on crop. I can even open the crop, crop to shape. I want this picture to be a rectangle. Hey, now I want to crop it again. And I want this picture to be more visible than they want this picture to be more in the middle. I'm clicking crop, and they've beautifully cropped this picture with this beautiful tool that was placed here for my convenience. The same goes for icons. You get the idea. The most important thing is that you notice that this specific tab helps you to operate within PowerPoint much, much faster. I hope you are excited in the next lecture, I want to compare PowerPoint to different programs and then we will work on some practical examples. See you there. 7. 01-05. Comparison to Camtasia and AE: I absolutely cannot move forward with the course unless I compare PowerPoint to some other software. I've told you that PowerPoint is capable of creating presentations, animations, and videos. If it does so, let us compare it to a video editor. In PowerPoint. Basically, our slides are our timeline. I can change the slides. I can give them animations so they take longer. Or I can go to the transition step. The Transitions tab under the timing section allows me to display a slide for 13, 14, 15 s, depending on how long I want. This is pretty convenient, but it's difficult to count the total time of the presentation. If you go to a typical video editor like e.g. text, make Camtasia, income deja, we have a horizontal timeline. This timeline makes it very easy to work over time. It's a bit difficult if there are many items on the timeline. And this is where PowerPoint is a bit more convenient to use because empowerment, It's no problem to like put several textboxes on a slide. But here, if I have too many of those textboxes, it gets messy, especially on the bottom on the timeline. So the timeline is more of a tool to assemble everything like e.g. here I have my voice-over, I have my camera, I have my PowerPoint recording and put everything in and it's easier to assemble over time and time everything perfectly. I'm not saying that one program is better than the other. I'm just saying it's easier to edit videos on a timeline than it is in PowerPoint. But PowerPoint makes it so easy to just create a video right here and see how it looks, that it definitely appealing. Now the second thing, let me compare PowerPoint to a typical motion graphics software. In PowerPoint, you simply create some items, e.g. some textboxes, some icons. You go to animations, you press F8 and the animation, the item nicely fades into the slide. You have added an animation. That's it in Adobe After Effects, e.g. this is a typical motion graphics software. Let me add one simple rectangle. This rectangle was added on a shape layer. This shape layer contains this rectangle. This rectangle has its own paths, stroke filling options, Transform options than the layer as well, has its own transform options. Then, since this is a shape layer, we can add additional Repeater options and other different options into the mix. We have a lot of properties. It's beautiful that we can control each single property of an item separately, e.g. the size. I can keyframe the size. I can go a little bit forward in time, and I can increase the size by precisely how much pixels I want. This is beautiful in PowerPoint. You can see it's a bit simplified. We have nice icons to use, nice animations, and we'll move forward like that. To recap everything I've said about PowerPoint, the advantages would be definitely, PowerPoint runs very quickly. It has a simplified approach. It has good shortcut. Powerpoint allows us to work efficiently in the software. It is very versatile. You can use it both for presentations, animations, videos, whatever you like. It is similar to other programs. Plenty of tools in PowerPoint like e.g. the alignment tools, the shape tools, the options are similar that in other programs. So when you learn PowerPoint, you already learned a little bit about the entire design industry and other programs. What are the disadvantages of PowerPoint? Powerpoint definitely has limited design options when it comes to shapes, to rounding the shapes. We are basically restricted to the pre-defined shapes that Microsoft gives us. It has limited animation options, as you saw, like Adobe After Effects allows us to animate everything pixel by pixel. Then we can also change the speed of how the animation floats between those pixels. This is almost impossible in PowerPoint. It's possible to some extent. I'll show later how, but it's not exactly a big motion graphics software. Powerpoint is difficult for video editing. It's perfectly capable to make videos. If you speak like me, that when I'm speaking and moving the presentation forward, but it's difficult to set up videos that will play automatically. You really have to be experienced. This is all for this lecture. I know it was a little long, but I really had to compare this for you with different programs so you understand what this software is. Four, in the next lecture, we will work on another thing. So stay tuned and see you there. 8. 02-01. Working Area and Slide Section: This entire section will be practical. It would be nice if you open the resource file to work alongside me. I've told you already a little bit about the working area, but you need to know something else. Everything you put within the white borders will be visible in your presentation. If I press Shift a five, I played this presentation, you see everything here, but you only see half of the red circle because the other half is beyond your art board. But even if something is beyond your art board, e.g. this shape and I will give this treatment animation. I'll give this shape 2 s of a simple fading. Even though this object is outside of the art board, I press F5 and I click my mouse. This animation is happening. So basically, everything you have here is on the slide. But only what is on the working area will be visible. Of course, you can make an animation that it's slice in here this way, which would be visible. But just be careful about that. If you put too many items outside of the slide here, it might be that you will get a little bit confused. What is visible and whatnot. This is everything you need to know about the working area. Now here I have a few simple tasks for you. At first, we will change the background of this slide. Do you know how to do this? You can simply right-click and open the format background options. On the right side, the options will appear and you have a couple of options here. I would like you to use the first solid fill and just give it a different color, e.g. the green one or the purple. As you like, you could of course go for a gradient field for a picture filled, but I don't recommend that. And of course the pattern fill, the pattern fills aren't used very often, but they are there. The most often used is solid fill and gradient fill. Okay, we've completed our task number two actually, task number one, what I wanted you to do is to delete a few slides. Just to get in the habit of working with your slides, you can press delete, delete, delete, delete on your keyboard. And you can press Control Z or Command Z to bring them back to revert the changes. I'll bring everything back because apologies, PowerPoint. I didn't want to delete everything. We've completed the first two tasks. Now, test number three, check the slide sorter. There are situations where you want to see all your slides at a glance. Then you are going to the View tab. And under View tab, on the left side, we have Presentation Views. I really enjoyed the slide sorter because it allows me to very quickly, oh, this is how my presentation looks when all the slides next to each other, Okay, everything looks fine. You can of course, enlarge this, and this is a very convenient way to review everything you have. Okay, I'm going back to the normal view. If by any chance you don't have the View tab, just go to File Options. Customize Ribbon here, Customize Ribbon and make sure that the view is selected. Okay, please check out the simple things we did here and we will see each other in the next lecture. See you there. 9. 02-02. Coloring features: In this lecture, we will practice several essential PowerPoint tools like adding fields, adding borders, and working with shadows. Know intellection is necessary. Here we are going to the coloring features on this slide. I want you to achieve this, achieve this, and achieve this what you see on the bottom. Let's start by adding a fill. When you click on a shape, you can go to the Shape Format Options. And under the filling options, we can actually add any field we want to this shape. You can go for a color or a gradient. Choose what you like. **** it go for a gradient. And we have something similar on both of them. If you want to stay true to what you see here, just select a normal fill. Here on the second one, I actually want to add borders. Borders are added within the second option. This second option allows you to either add a border or clicking on the outline. You can select no outline if you want to actually get rid of the border. Here, we wanted to add one. So let me add one, the yellow one. And if you want it thicker, you can go to the Shape, Outline options and you can just preview what you have here. You have weight, you can make it sketched in newer versions of PowerPoint as I remember, and you can add some dashes if you like that. Under the weight options, you can see we have a couple of predefined thicknesses, six being the highest. But if you click on More lines, you will be taken to the options on the right side. The options on the right side that you see here. I'll tell you a bit later about them. The options on the right side gives you more freedom because you can increase the width beyond the six. The six was just a predefined style that is often used. And Microsoft thought that this is enough. The rest should be made manually. Here, we have added a border. Now the third last option that you need to learn is to effect. Effects are a little bit cheesy within PowerPoint. They aren't looking as cool as they could. The most used one in my experience are of course, shadow. Shadow is really good. Reflection. Sometimes glow. I very rarely use soft edges, are bevel, of course, 3D rotation. All of them are okay. You can preview them, you can just preview them by hovering on them. But it doesn't mean that you will not use them, but I'm rarely using them. The most important for me, shadow and I want you to add a shadow. What is cool about shadow? Even if you select a simple shadow. You can again right-click select Format Shape to go to those right options. The second little option is the effect option. And if you open shadow here, you have actually so many possibilities. I can decrease or increase in transparency. The shadow is black now, so you can barely see it on this purple background. But if I make the shadow green, okay. I increase the size. You can see what's happening under it. I would like you to play around with those options. Change the blur, change the angle, change the distance of the shadow. What does often made. If you want a shadow on the bottom like that, you can increase the blur. You can maybe decrease the size and you have this nice little shadow here. I really like to work like that. This is it for this lecture. Please try to do all three things yourself. Adding a fill, adding an outline, and adding a simple shadow. See you in the next lecture. Once you finish this task. 10. 02-03. Arrangement and Selection Pane: Within this tutorial, we're going to talk about the selection pane and how you can move objects behind or in front each other. Something of major importance in PowerPoint is the selection pane and a little bit arrangement of objects. When you have two objects here, you can see one is on top of another. At first I want you to open the selection pane. Please go to Home. On the right side we have selected and we can open the selection pane. The selection pane represents all layers. It showcases all layers that are on a slide, no matter if they are on the working area or outside of the working area, they will still be displayed within the selection pane because they are there. In newer versions of PowerPoint, you can lock them. I think this feature is very slowly to be rolled out. So plenty of you probably will not have the locking feature if you do, That's great. But since forever we could make it visible and invisible. Why do you actually need the selection pane? Because if you want the red object to be under this purple object, I will just click on this rectangle. I'll put it simply behind those rectangles. And now the purple is in front. Alternatively, if you click on the Shape Format, you have sent backward and bring forward. Essentially what this does is bringing items, one item up and one items down. Let me rename it red. You can see if I click on Send Backwards, it will go lower. If I click on bring forward, it will go higher. If you don't want to click that many times, you can simply, instead of sending it backwards, you can send it immediately, completely to back. Another way to achieve this is right-clicking and selecting bring to front. As you can see, that selection pane allows you to change the position of different objects. I would like you to open the selection pane. Maybe rename objects here so they are easier to edit, e.g. this one, I would call this just purple, purple block or something like that. And it would be far easier for me to see what is what. Now it's your turn. Good luck and try to practice a bit with the arrangement. 11. Leave a Review, Please: Hey, it would be extremely helpful for this class if you go to the Review tab and click on leave a review and write something there. If you don't see this button yet, you need to watch a few more lectures and it will become available. Sculpture now requires that classes have recent reviews on them. So it would help me greatly. You just click here, you tell if you'd like to class or not, and you write a simpler view and click Submit. I would be very obliged if you can do this right now. Thank you so much and see you soon. 12. 02-04. Drag and Drop: In this lecture, we will briefly discuss how to drag and drop pictures or icons into PowerPoint. I'll also discuss the benefits of the 365 subscription in case you have it. Let us step outside of our comfort zone and drag and drop something into PowerPoint. If you downloaded the resources, there should be a folder called photos, music, icons. And from here, you can e.g. go to photos and take any picture you would like e.g. the office or the person or the cars. I'll drag a picture here on the left side. I will make it smaller. And this is another spring of PowerPoint. You can drag and drop pictures directly into PowerPoint and you can start working with them. I really love that. Let us do this with another file, e.g. a, PNG icon. I'll open the PNG icons. I'll bring in the mouth. And I have a picture of this mouse right here. What's the little problem with PowerPoint? If I go to picture format, I can change the color of the mouse, but I'm limited with the coloring. It's far easier to have a vector icon. Then we can edit the colors as well. Let me open the SVD folder. I've put two icons here too, and the EMF format for older versions of PowerPoint, like 2010, 13, 16, only EMF was working St. PowerPoint 2019. We can implement and drag and drop SVG vector files. This is a more popular vector file into PowerPoint. If you don't know a lot about vectors, I'll tell you in a moment. Let me use the mouse. The difference will be here. I have the newest version of PowerPoint, so there's no problem. The difference will be here that here this is a picture, and here this is a graphic that I can simply change the color of whenever I want. If you have older versions of PowerPoint, you probably won't be able to use the EMF or the SVG file. Especially Mac users will have problems. If you have the Mac version, it will be difficult for you to bring in vector items. If you have the Mac version, it's best if you have PowerPoint 2019, because since this version, SVG files work and you don't have to worry about them. One last thing I want to show you that if you have the Microsoft 365 subscription, you can go to Insert and you should have the icons feature where you can simply insert icons directly from Microsoft. There are limited, there aren't as many icons as I would like, but simple icons like that. I can simply insert them into PowerPoint without searching anywhere. And they are right here for me to edit. This is beautiful. The same goes for pictures. Insert pictures. And you have stock images by Microsoft that allow you to bring pictures directly here from the program. So this is another little benefit of having the Microsoft 365 subscription. If you don't, don't worry, it's not necessarily like to complete this course or anything. This is only to show you that those are the little benefits that we have with 265 subscription. Please try dragging and dropping a couple of items here in the PowerPoint. If they won't work, then probably you have an older version of PowerPoint, especially for the vector. But pictures, BMD icons should work without any problem. Try this out, and I'll see you in the next lecture where we will work a tiny bit with pictures. 13. 02-05. Working with Pictures: During this lecture, we will work with pictures. We will remove a background, we will add some effects and we will crop one of the pictures. Welcome in the lecture where we will work with pictures. At first, please dragged and dropped three pictures into PowerPoint. It can be any picture you want. I will just take three pictures and I'll put it on the slide. I'll make them a bit smaller. Like that. I will put them on the side and we will start the work right away. In the note here on the bottom, I have removing the background. Let's maybe use this one. It might be a bit easier to remove the background from this one. If you click on a picture, you already know that you can click on the picture format. And we have a couple of features here. One of them, one important would be removing the background. Powerpoint is not perfect at removing backgrounds. I'll come a bit closer. I can mark areas to keep e.g. here, the tail here on the side, I think your PowerPoint removed a little bit too much. Well, it isn't Photoshop. It isn't perfect Mark Areas to keep and Mark Areas to remove. I think this should be removed. They should be removed. Well, it removed too much. You'll barely see it. I'll select Keep changes. And this way, we were able to crop out the background from the picture right inside of PowerPoint. If you have better pictures, it would be an easier. Okay, we talked about the first feature. Now the second maybe set of features in the picture format options would be the corrections. The corrections are very limited in what they can do. Like, we can correct the brightness. You can of course, do this by hand, but we have a couple of predefined items here from PowerPoint. We can change the color. You can add some, I would again say cheesy artistic effects. What I really use here, I use blur sometimes. From the color. I often use the Grayscale. Grayscale is of course, an important feature and useful for any type of design you do. This will come in handy to know where that is, what was added in newer versions that you can select the transparency of a picture directly here. And this is very, very convenient. I really liked. This is what I wanted you to do. Maybe make it a bit transparent and give it a gray scale. This way, we've edited the second picture. Now the last thing would be the cropping. The cropping features are very powerful in PowerPoint, not only because you can drop two shape, e.g. to a circle, but what you can do, you can again click on the cropping features and select the aspect ratio. I really like that. I can instantly make a perfect square, or in this case, a perfect circle of my cropping. I don't have to think, is this a good circle or not? I can save to make a circle. I can put Mr. Birdie here. I can crop it like that. Crop. Beautiful. We have the bird. I would select bird of the year. I would write something like that. And this would be such a beautiful slide, how to not love it. Alright, I want you to click on those pictures, go into picture format and select the Remove Background, the adjustments tab, and the cropping options here on the right side, just to play a little bit around with them. I hope you will enjoy that and we will see each other in the next lecture very, very soon. 14. 02-06. Format Panel: In this lecture, we will discover the format panel that is on the right side and compare it to the options that we have available here on top within PowerPoint. I'm loving the pace at which we learn new things in PowerPoint. If I click on a shape, I can right-click. And on the very bottom we have Format, Shape. A new panel has appeared. I've already talked about this panel at tiny bit but not in detail. Each shape will have its shape options and texts options. Those texts options and shape options are available in detail here. But why would you use them? You have the same options here, don't you? Yes, you have. But here they are a bit more detailed. As I told you, e.g. with the line here, you are restricted to six pixels of weight. And by selecting more lines, you will directly go into the line options. You can select solid fill in here. You can increase the width beyond six points and have all the options in one place, including the transparency of the line. Okay. So I've talked about the first options, a fill-in line options. The second tab is effect options. The same goes for effect options. Here under the effect options, you have only a couple of predefined styles, e.g. reflection. We have just a couple of reflections here. But if you click on reflection options, you are not limited to just those reflections. I can manually set the transparency of the reflection. I can increase the size by any amount I want. I can increase the blur and I can increase the distance. If this is a reflection you would like to go. You definitely will not be able to achieve that by using just the predefined styles. And this is why you want to use the Format Shape panel. The last one, the position options. This, it will be too much for this lecture. I don't want to confuse you, but in the sizing options, you basically can change the size of this shape. You can change the rotation, and you can position this on the slide. You can change the rotation by just pulling at this handle. But the difference is that here I have to eyeball it unless I press my shift key. But here on the right side, I can be precise and e.g. give it a seven per cent of rotation. Normally, I would know where seven per cent is, but here I can manually set it. One last thing in this lecture, if you click on something like a picture, basically everything in PowerPoint has the same options. But since I've clicked on a picture, one additional option has appeared that is specific to pictures. And this will be basically all the picture options that we had here on the left side that I mentioned already, you, for your convenience, all of them are here. So depending on what you select in PowerPoint, there is a possibility it will have its own options for advanced users. I will also tell you that if you select a chart, of course, different items on the chart can have their own options as well. But that's for later, That's for advanced users. And you don't need to know about this now, if it's convenient for you, you can work on the right side if you don't want to use the tools here. Now, you have learned something very interesting about PowerPoint. And I'm looking forward to next lectures because there's plenty more to uncover. See you there. 15. 02-07. Guides and Rulers: In this lecture, we are going to talk about the positioning tools like the ruler, Gridlines and guides. Let me get back here to PowerPoint. Go to the View tab and under View tab, under the show category, you have ruler, Gridlines and guide. The ruler is essentially for myself, always enabled because I like to have the ruler on top of my slide. And on the left of your slide. If you have enough space, if you have a bigger monitor, the ruler absolutely is no problem to have. And I really liked that. We have this red little line. Wherever your mouse is, approximately know where you are on the slide. The second option are the grid lines. The grid lines basically gives you a grid to work on your slide. One little interesting thing about the grid lines. I don't use them often. If I use them, then I go to right-click Grids and Guides. And I select Snap objects to grid, because if I'm using the grid, I really want everything to snap perfectly to the grid like it does here. For me automatically. I will now disable that. So I don't forget about this. I will disable this option and I'll disable the grid lines. What's the best of all those features, in my opinion, are the guide. By default, you will have one vertical and one horizontal guide. But you can actually right-click on the guide and simply add another vertical and another horizontal. Why would it be that useful? If I e.g. at a horizontal guide, you can see a guide like that appeared here. And I'll put it at negative nine. Then I'll right-click on it at another horizontal. And I would make it here at nine as well. This way, I'll make sure that on the top of this slide and on the bottom of the slide, I'll have equal margins when placing items e.g. perfectly like that or perfectly like that. There are a couple of things we can do like e.g. right-clicking and changing the color of those guides. As you see I'm having here, but this is just cosmetics I wanted to show you. The feature is something nice to remember about if you want to work pixel perfect within your projects. 16. 02-08. Example Project: In this lecture, based on the things we've learned so far, we will create these little graphical product. Let us start working. I'm really happy to arrive here because in this lecture, we'll do a simple graphical product that you at this point should be able to complete. This on the left side is an example of what I want you to create. This on the right side is where we start. We have a black icon. If you are unable to recall this icon, I've also put a white icon here on the side. You can just take this white icon if you run into any trouble. Okay, so let's start. In order to do something like that, I would first click on the icon. Then I would go to graphics Format, Graphics Fill, and I would change the color of the icon to white. This is enough. I would like you to go to Insert Shapes and insert a circle. We will make sure that this will be a perfect circle by clicking, holding your click, dragging your mouse, and pressing the Shift key. At the same time, the shift key will allow you to make a perfect circle. Don't worry, if you don't make a perfect circle. Let's say that you didn't catch the shortcut with the shift. No problem. We have a circle. While having the shape format selected on the right side, we have the size options. I will do. I always do like 5 cm. This is like my basic, basic value, and I always go from there. Okay, I have 5.5. This is a perfect circle. I'll click on the corner and I will start dragging. But in order to make it perfect, Now we need to press Shift key. Now you can decide how big this circle should be. Okay, I've put the circle here, but as you can see, it is covering my icon. You should be aware that you can right-click on the circle and you can send it to back to bring it behind anything in front of it. Okay, the organism different. That circle is here. What do we miss? We miss a white outline. We can edit this outline by going again to Shape Format, Shape, outline. Under the Shape, Outline options, you want to click on the white color. You can see this would be perfectly fine. I'm not telling that this has to be exactly like this one. You can click on Shape, Outline, weight, and you can e.g. increase the weight to six points. If you remember, if you need more, just go two more lines and go more than six there. Alright, This is perfect. This is exactly what I wanted you to create. Please don't try to be sneaky and don't use in this exercise the Format Painter. You could, of course, but I wanted here that you do this manually. Try doing this on your own, and we'll see each other in the next lecture. As always. 17. 03-01. Shift, Ctrl and F5: Starting with this lecture, we will discuss some keyboard shortcuts to use within PowerPoint. This will make you more efficient while working in the software. We have arrived at the most beautiful part. Using shortcuts. Different language versions may have slightly different shortcuts. So if you are using a different language of PowerPoint than English, it might be that a couple of shortcuts will not work. For reference. You can use those links i 0 of course, share this presentation in the resources. Those are shortcuts for windows. Those are shortcuts for Mac. This will be your reference point if you get lost at any point. In this lecture, I want to talk about the shift Control key. Mostly they are translated on the Mac version into command and control. Currently, I don't own a Mac machine. If I do any mistakes, apologies, and please do correct me. The Shift key is an absolutely important key when basically doing anything within PowerPoint. At first, I was already talking about this a tiny bit. When you enter the shape, any type of shape, e.g. a. Circle or even a face-like that. I'm starting to draw it. The moment I press my Shift key, it will remain on constant proportions and will be a perfect circle. The same goes when resizing items. If I click on something and they start to resize it, I have complete freedom. But the moment I press my Shift key, it will remain on Constant Proportions. It will just get bigger. One more usage of the shift key, and I would like you to also click around within this presentation is when moving object. Let me click on this. Hold my click and move it around. You can see I can move it around completely freely. But the moment I press my shift key, it helps me to move the object horizontally. I cannot snap out of this. You can see I'm moving my mouse up and down, up and down, but still remains horizontally and also vertically, correct, from the point I've selected the object. This is crucial and convenient when making pixel perfect presentations. Now the second key, control, or probably Command on the Mac. You can do this to simply duplicate objects. I have one object. I press my control key, 111. I'm holding down my Control key. And this way I can very easily duplicate items. Next usage when resizing items. This is also very important. When I resize items, you can see they simply get smaller. But if you press your control key, they get smaller. Outside of its middle point. You can press Control and Shift at the same time. You have this beautiful result of resizing items from the middle. When is this used? E.g. if you have different icons and you decide, I wanted them a tiny bit bigger, you press your control key, you pressed your shift key and you are resizing them beautifully. From the middle point. It's a bit messy because those are small icons, but you get the idea. If I press Control and Shift, I'll move them horizontally and duplicate at the same time. I know this is a little bit like maybe not complicated, but it gets a bit counter-intuitive unless you do it a few times. I have already built up muscle memory, so I instantly know if I want to duplicate an item island just holding control. And if I want to duplicate it horizontally, I'm holding Control and Shift at the same time I'm doing is basically automatically. One last bonus I want to show you. If you press F5, the presentation starts, but you don't want to start your presentation from the first slide. You want to Watch your current slide. You can do this by pressing Shift and just pressing F5. Again. You can see shift is such an important key that you definitely have to incorporate it into your workflow later on when we create slides, I will make sure we do so currently, this is just overall practice. Please go into this presentation. Please click a tiny bit around. It might be a bit different on the Mac version, but you should be able to replicate most of the steps. Thank you for listening, and now it's your turn and we see each other in a moment back at the course. 18. 03-02. Ctrl C, Ctrl D, Ctrl V: In this lecture, we'll talk about control C, control D, and Control V. Simple but essential shortcuts. Okay? When you want to duplicate something I even listed here and duplicate existing items, control D or Control D. I'm selecting as many items as I want, and I'm pressing Control D. This way. I've duplicated all of them and I can simply put them in a different place, change their colors, and be done with my design. We did item number one. Let's do item number to copy the circles to the next slide. That's also no problem because if you select multiple items, you press Control C. Currently they are in your clipboard. You can do this here by pasting. You have different pasting options, but I'll simply go to the next slide and press Control V. And it beautifully did copy over to my next slide. What's the last thing I wanted to show you? You can not only do this on items, you can do this on entire slides and you will do this probably a lot when you work e.g. this is a nicely designed slide, press Control D. And on this slide, I wanted to have only this item on the right side. I press again on the first slide, Control D, Control D, DD, DD, DD. And the slides duplicate, I'll press Control or Command Z, ZZZZ to revert the changes. But I just wanted to show you that it's possible you can even select the first slide. Shift, click on the last slide. Again, the Shift key. It is. So mighty. Now press Control D, and I will duplicate all four slides at once. I'll delete that now to not mess up the entire presentation, I just wanted to highlight what the Control C, Control D, and control the keys do. 19. 03-03. Ctrl G, Ctrl Shift G: In this lecture, we will practice grouping objects together and I'll explain the shortcuts for the Windows and the Mac version. Now, one of the most important shortcuts, grouping. Let's start by grouping individual boxes. On the Windows version, you press Control G on the Mac version, I don't know why there is one more key to press. You press Command, Option and g. Why is this so useful? Because here I have a text box, I have an icon, I have another textbox. I have a box in the background. I would like to click select and just press Control G in my case. And now this is one consistent object. I would like you to do the same for all three boxes. Make sure you select everything and you press Control. G. Number two, group two boxes together, lift out the third one. We have now three different boxes, but we can again group those boxes together. Now box number 1.2 would be essentially one item and this would be another separate item. Try grouping everything and see differences. I think the differences are pretty self-explanatory. If I group everything together, this will become essentially one item. Why is this very useful? Because e.g. if you want to align something, we haven't talked about the align features, but we will talk later about them. If I go to Shape, Format, Align, and align all three of them in the center. I'll have equal spaces on the left side and on the right side. I have basically perfectly placed them in the middle. Let me now select this object again and press in my case, Control Shift G to ungroup. You can see what happened. I have still this grouped and this grouped. I would need to again Control Shift G to ungroup. Now this is grouped like that. I can Control Shift G to ungroup it to its first state. As you can see, grouping kind of stacks on top of each other because this was my first group, this was my second grouping, and this is my third grouping. So I need to ungroup them multiple times to get to the first result. Now, let me go to the next slide. Grouping is your friend for animation, Definitely e.g. here, if I would want to animate those objects, I go to animation. I press F8. All three objects have a separate animation, but I still want them to be animated at once and not worry about them. I have three animations here on the right side. If I would group them. And careful, if your group something animations disappear. If I group this, I press F8. I can animate this entire group at once. I really like that because I don't have to worry about item number two, item number three, to have separate animations. I'm just making one animation for the entire group. And for my convenience, I have only one animation here. If you don't plan to have everything like separately animated, this is the quickest and most convenient way. I hope you do enjoy grouping and you'll test this by yourself. You have the shortcuts for Mac, you have the shortcuts for Windows. Please test it out and get back to me in the next lecture. 20. 03-04. Ctrl B, I, U: In this lecture, we're going to talk about the shortcuts that are available under the font section. They will allow us to edit the text using only our keyboard. I hope you feel that everything is slowly coming together towards creating PowerPoint slides. Here, I want to briefly talk about text formatting. There are a few that are so simple that you have to use shortcuts, forelimb, control, be too bold. Control I to italicize the text and control you to underline it. I think those are pretty self-explanatory shortcuts and you can test them on this very box. I hope that you have used them in the past. If not, that's a beautiful time to learn them. Control G will simply Bolden the font, but be careful, not all fonts will be able to get bolded because some fonts are already bold and there will be no change. This is a PowerPoint thing. Don't worry about this. Just be aware that this might happen for some fonts that you have installed on your system. But all the default fonts and the normal font that you have should be able to pull the folding of the Bolding, the Italica with Control a and Control U for underlining. Of course, you can select a portion of the text by clicking and dragging and just an underlining e.g. this one, I think this is simple. I don't have to stay here longer. Those are the second shortcuts I use often with putting text on the left side or on the right side. It's also very self-explanatory because we have Control L or Command L and control R or Command R. The only one, a little less intuitive, in my opinion, is the control E and the Control J, because Control E will simply center the text and Control J will justify it. Control left, right. You can again practice on this text if you want the text on the left, right, Control L, control our right-side. Control E for Central Control J to justify. Actually, I think justified is the most useful when designing slides and I want them to look good. I often use justify, sometimes centers, sometimes left. Of course, it depends on the situation. If I have e.g. a. Picture on the left side, I want the text to be aligned to the right side. And if I have a picture on the right side, I sometimes align the text to the left side. This is a matter of like optical and graphical intuition, which you build up when designing slides. Alright, there's nothing more to talk about here. Please test out those shortcuts and we see each other soon. 21. 03-05. Text enlarging: For me personally, this is one of the most used shortcut. If you go into the links that I gave you with the shortcuts, you will find that enlarging text is possible by using Control Shift and the forward arrow. And yes, this shortcut, of course, work. I press my Control Shift and the arrow, the text gets larger, but far more convenient, at least for me, is the control and right bracket key. From what I know, this shortcut doesn't work. An old versions and maybe not on all language version, but on my version it works. And it's so much simpler than this shortcut that I always use Control and right bracket key, left bracket key. It might be that this shortcut won't work for you, but please do test it. If not, you can use this shortcut, but if the left one works for you, why not using it? It's so simple in PowerPoint. You can do this of course as well here. Larger and smaller, but it's a waste of time. It's such a simple shortcut that you need to make your text bigger and smaller that way. Thank you for listening. Test it out and we will continue with other shortcuts. 22. 03-06. Quick Access Toolbar: In this lecture, I will explain the Quick Access Toolbar to you or you can put all shortcuts. I'll also explain a difference on the Mac version, so all users can benefit from this tool. The big moment we have all been waiting for the Quick Access Toolbar. The Quick Access Toolbar is actually what you see on the top side of my PowerPoint here. You probably have a little bit less features, but don't worry, you can add any feature here from PowerPoint that you want into the Quick Access Toolbar. That's why it is so amazing. So what does it do? It simply is a special place for all your custom shortcut. How to add shortcuts. This is the magical trick of PowerPoint. You can basically right-click on any feature and select Add to Quick Access Toolbar. I can edit this to Quick Access toolbar icon even when e.g. going to Shape Format text fill this eyedropper, I can right-click here and I have it already on my toolbar. That's why I cannot add it. I can add this to Quick Access Toolbar. If this is something that you use, often, more fill colors and you will be able to quickly fill the color of the text by just clicking here. Of course, the Shape Fill has a separate field color. So if you add one after another, you'd basically have two of the same shortcut. And I think PowerPoint, you should use different icons for them, but that's Not for now to talk about using shortcuts on Windows. Why is the quick access toolbar this amazing? Because on Windows, if I press my left Alt key, you can see something displays here, 123456, and so on. Later it gets 090807. This means that if I press my alt key and I press my two key, I can instantly insert shapes. I teach this across mostly all of my courses. It's very convenient to just go to Insert, to right-click and gift the Insert Shapes a shortcut, no matter if it's old to or later on, It's very convenient to add shapes into PowerPoint by just pressing, in my case, old, too, old to different shape to a circle, old to triangle. Now a circle. This is how you work efficiently and quickly in PowerPoint. What's the problem with the Mac version? On the Mac version, at least currently as I'm recording this video, this shortcut doesn't work. Mac users have to click manually on the shortcuts. They have the quick access toolbar, but they don't have those shortcuts. What's my little work around and recommendation. You can open this little panel here and customize it. And here on the bottom, you can select the toolbar position to be below the ribbon. When it's below the ribbon, it's a little closer to click. More space for all your shortcut, at least visually. So Mac users, I highly recommend that you put them here. You can see e.g. I've gave the guides a shortcut because I used the guide, I use the Eyedropper as the Insert Shapes the alignment tools, which we will talk about. And this is a very special place, very dear to my heart that I recommend to use anything that you notice that you use often, you can add here, don't mind if you just remove items from the remover to remove it. Don't worry about them. You can always very quickly at them again, if you happen to use them very often, this is all I wanted to tell you about the Quick Access Toolbar in PowerPoint. 23. 03-07. Shortcuts Practice Example: Here we will practice a little and put all the shortcuts that we've learned to use. I want you to become a person confidently working, not just in PowerPoint, basically in any design software you open, I want you to save time, work more efficient. And this is why I'm preparing this type of product examples. Here I want basically you to just use a shortcut. You can use your mouse for a tiny bit, e.g. to select those boxes. So let's start. Take your hand, press your shift key, click on the first object, click on the second object, you are done. Now, you can do this only with your keyboard at first. Let's enlarge the text a tiny bit. You can see I can select control shift and my Ford bracket or what I told you before, control and right bracket. Okay, I'll do this 123, maybe three times is enough. Now I want the text to be Bolden. Control V. I think it would look better if we justify the text control J all at the same time, not changing anything. Now, let's group the texts Control G. Beautiful. We basically formatted to different text boxes at once with different shortcuts. My normal workflow would be now pressing Alt to, to quickly add a shape behind them. I would right-click. I would send it to back. I would probably press my shift key. Click on the text box is press Control G to group them. And this is how we work. This is how I created this beautiful shape with those textboxes. I can of course resize it. I can put it on the right side. And we've worked in this lecture of practically only with shortcuts, end with a couple of additional features. Thank you for listening. Please try to practice and edit this text box with those shortcuts and we can continue with the course with this new knowledge now. 24. 04-01. Working with Text: In this lecture, we will talk about text options, specifically how to change colors, outlines, and how to reach everything. This section will be the real deal because not only we will learn about important features, we'll also start creating real slides. The first lecture will be about adding an working with text. By default. The insert textbox option is on the Insert tab. And somewhere here on the right, you should have a text box. You can click on it and either click your mouse and start typing. Or alternatively, insert text box. You can click and drag it across to instantly tell PowerPoint you want a text-box of approximately this size, not worry, you can always make it narrower or simply smaller like that. That's not the big issue. When you start typing, it will change, of course, because the length depends on the actual texts in it, but the width can be changed at any given point. Why is that? I don't know. I think PowerPoint should allow me to change the size of the textbox right away. But this is how this feature here works. You can either select texts directly like that or you can click on the box. When the box is selected, I will come closer. This will make a huge difference because if it's deselected, if I select text, you have dots here. But if you click on that, it becomes a complete line. I know it's barely visible, but just trust me on that. If you have this entire box selected, you go to Shape Format and change the text color. The entire texts will change. If you have your text selected like that, obviously, only the part that is selected will change. One important notice in newer versions of PowerPoint, I think this was added in 2016 or 2019. When you go to Insert Shapes. For our convenience, Microsoft has added the text box feature also here when inserting the shapes, the basic shapes. The first shape is actually a textbox. I think this is a really nice touch. Remember about the second thing is reaching texts options. The default normal text options are on the home tab. Actually here, on the Home tab, under the font, we have the font color, we have the font size. We can make it bold and so on. The second way to reach those options is under the Shape Format, the one you already know when clicking on a specific shape. Here on the shape format. On the right side, we have texts options. We also have a couple of styles, but I think they are at this point obsolete. It's much better to create your own unique style. You can change the text color. If you want more color than the default you've specified, simply select more fill colors. Here going to custom AI sometimes change the color like that. You can make this larger and you'll see a little bit better. Of course, you can insert the RGB values and since they're written, update after PowerPoint 2019, we also have the ability to use hex code, which is really perfect because so many colors schemes are specified with hex code that we don't have to rely on RGB color values anymore. The third way to reach the options, I think by now you know it. You can right-click on the shape. And on the bottom you have Format Shape. Alright, I'm in the formatting tools, but I need to click on the Text Options. And here we have it. I have the text filling options and the text outline options. The outline would be an outline and the filling is what the text actually has inside of it. You can see, you can reach those options on different ways. This is what I've already said. More options on the right side, e.g. with the outline. I've talked about this several times already under the Shape Format, text outline. If you go to the weight, you are limited to six, but if you go directly in the options, you have plenty more. Alright, this would be everything I wanted to tell you about texts. Your task for this lecture is to click on this text, select this entire box by just clicking on the edges of the box and changing the color of the text and giving it a big outline. It would be nice if you select a color and also given effect later on. So I want you to give an outline. You want e.g. to three points of an outline. And after that, go to Text Effects and give it either a shadow or a reflection. What do you think will look best this way? You will basically touch all three features about text formatting. I hope you are following along. You understand how a textbox in PowerPoint works now a little better and we will see each other in the next lecture where we continue with the second most important thing, shapes. 25. 04-02. Adding Shapes: In this lecture, we will insert different types of shapes. We will also learn what we can do with this yellow dot. I'm extremely excited to arrive at this point where we will add and work with shapes in PowerPoint. Let me start by going to the slide where you should come as well. Here we have a couple of instructions that I did to practice. Insert a rectangle and a rounded rectangle. On the bottom, you see what you have to do to insert a rectangle, go to Insert, click on shapes, and click on this first rectangle. If you have right-clicked and edit this to Quick Access Toolbar, you can go to the Insert Shapes right there. No matter where you are in PowerPoint, I will press a rectangle. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just put it inside. Now go again to shapes and insert a rounded rectangle. I want to show you the difference. I will press my Shift key to make it perfect. Look at that. Some shapes in PowerPoint have this yellow object, which allows you to change the values and properties of this given object for a rounded rectangle. As the name suggests, we can give it rounded corners. Other shapes in PowerPoint have similar features, but I'm a bit dissatisfied with. Microsoft gives us e.g. this shape. I would prefer that I can resize each corner individually, but PowerPoint allows us to make something like that and something like that. So in reality, we can make a weird shape like this. That's not perfect, but this is what the yellow dot is for and what we can do. Now using the rotation handled, I think in very old versions of PowerPoint, their rotation handle wasn't there. You can remind me if you have maybe 2007 if it was there. But here we have this rotation handle. I really love this rotation handle because I can simply click and start dragging my mouse to give this shape rotation. If however, I press my Shift key, the rotation will happen every 15 degrees. That's really convenient if you really want those rotations to be pixel perfect and e.g. have a shape rotated like this, wouldn't be any problem. If you remember on the options here on the right side, under the sizing options, if you open them, you have the rotation. So you can always check if you were correct with your estimation. This is everything I wanted to tell you about inserting shapes and PowerPoint because that's basically the cornerstone of building any design or slide that we will do very, very soon, adding shapes and adding texts, and being able to maneuver and recolor them is just what we need. See you in the next lecture. 26. 04-03. Shape Effects: In this lecture, we will try to recreate this shadow and this reflection on those shapes in front of us. Here I would like to practice with you adding effects to shapes. We've been touching on this a little bit, but I want you to add to affect that will look similar to this. And similar to this. This will teach you as a designer to look but different designs and be able to make your own versions. So let's start. Let's try adding a shadow. I will do this on the right panel, right-click Format Shape. The second box effects. And the first effect is shadow. You don't have many effects here. So it shouldn't be any problem to reach that. Okay, at first, we need to start with a preset. I always click on the preset just to have something. Now I can eyeball what's happening here on the bottom. Definitely. I always start with the size just to see what's happening. Okay? The size is now a little bigger and I can see where this is going. It will make it easier to change the distance to the bottom. Now, reduce the size. Now, make the color green. Now we have something very similar and little adjustment. What should be done is adding a blur. Adding a blur will make the effect a little bit washed out. And basically, we've created something very, very similar. If you want this to be smaller or less visible, simply increase the transparency because a bigger transparency makes this less visible. And of course, the size could be still shrinked to make this a little bit smaller. Okay, I think we made a similar shadow in our style. That looks really cool. Now for the reflection, I'll click on this shape. I'll go to Effect a close shadow because by default, shadow was now opened. I want a reflection. You can, of course, later on test out with the rest. But shadow and reflection are like the nicest looking ones. In my opinion. I'll go to the presets and I will choose the middle preset because the middle preset is a little longer and allows me to create something like that quicker. I'll maybe reduce the size because in reality, maybe it was too long. Alright? And again, you work the same way. You increase the blur and you decide yourself whether you want it to be closer or further away. You can do this with the distance. You can make it like that and beautiful. Recreated to nice effects on are the shapes. And this will teach you to know where to reach for effect and how to work with this panel when it's open. I hope this has a lot of fun. Alternatively, remember, if there is text in the middle and you want the text to have the same effect. You can check the text options. Now you have basically the same effect for the text as you have here. I hope you enjoy to add those effects. In the next lecture, there will be an advanced feature that I want to show you that will really expand your knowledge and you will understand much more about PowerPoint and generally about design. See you there. 27. 04-04. Subtracting: In this lecture, we will select at least two shapes and learn about the Merge Shaped features, will compare the options and see what are they used for. If you have worked in an InDesign software in the past, you probably will understand that there is a feature called under the Shape Format, merging shapes. Merging shapes can be done when at least two shapes are selected. Let me do this. Let me select the circle first, press Shift and select the rectangle under it. Now by going to shape format, the Merge Shape options are available. You can union to make one shape out of this, you can combine to showcase the difference. You can fragment, to fragment them in different pieces, intersect or subtract. You can notice what happens here. I will be left only with this little shape. This is one way to make custom shapes in PowerPoint by simply subtracting different parts with different shapes from them and creating something unique. It's very important what you select first, if I will select now that gray object first, I press Shift and the circle second, it will work the other way around. If I go to merge shapes and I will subtract. You can see now I'll simply subtract the circle from it, intersect. And you can go through those options to see what's happening. In reality, the most often used for me is subtraction. Fragmentation and union. Because union makes one shape. Fragmentation. Fragmentation is really cool because it basically divides this shape with each division. Like this would be a separate shape. This would be a shape and this will be now a shape. And you can manually delete what you don't want here. Why would I need a shape like that? It very simple. E.g. if I would like to put a circle here at an icon, and this would be a super clean design with an empty space inside of it. I really liked that we can do this in PowerPoint. Now, I've already talked a bit about fragmentation. I want you within this lecture to select all of that. Go to shape format. You can see this will become a little crazy. Merge shapes and select fragment. Everything is fragmented into separate different pieces. E.g. if I would only need the triangles, like I would like to design a pizza. I was even calling this pizza slices. So I'll take the pieces slices and I will delete everything because I won't be needing this anymore. This is one way to create a triangle with a rounded back, because if you go to Insert Shapes within PowerPoint, we don't have a triangle with a arched back. I could e.g. use this to create, to create a triangle like that. But this is like a little work around. You always need to think about what's possible in PowerPoint and you need to make those workarounds. Sometimes. Sadly, I wish there were more options for shapes, but sadly, PowerPoint gives us only those options. Alright, here I want to explain you the yellow dot problem because here we have beautiful, nice rounded rectangles. I have created a slide. Let me delete the right one. I have created a slide and I want to design this light like that, but I don't enjoy it. This is standing out here so much here, so much. What I can do. I can simply add a shape here. I can duplicate, add a shape to the left corner. Now, watch what I will do. I can still edit the corners. But if I select this shift, click this one, I Shift-click this one. I go to Merge Shapes and I simply subtract them. It is now beautifully aligned in the corner. This is a new shape, but synthesis, a new shape. I no longer have the yellow dot to adjust the roundness on the corners. So the advantage is that I don't have unnecessary items on the site. The disadvantages that I no longer have the yellow dot. You can practice this yourself. Your test for this lecture will be to delete the left side and the top side from this shape if you want to watch it again, how to do this? Take a rectangle, make a big rectangle here. Press Control D, start to rotate it. Press your shift key to rotate it perfectly. Put it on the top side. Now make sure that this object will be selected first Shift-click this shift and click this, hold your shift all the time. Merge shapes and simply subtract. This is the result you want to achieve for this lecture. 28. 04-05. Slide 1 - Title: At this point, we know enough to start creating slides. Within this lecture, I want to create a slight like that. Would you use the Merge Shape Tools? If you are uncomfortable using the Merge Shape tools yet, you can do a simplified version of the slide like this. Congratulations, by reading this lecture, you are going into the intermediate territory and you will be able to create a custom slide like this. Let me start right away without wasting any time. If you want to work with the same picture, just download the resources, go into the photos, music and icon's folder, open photos, and select course number one, just drag and drop it into PowerPoint. I'll put this to the right side. I will press my Shift key so it doesn't float around. If you have your Shift key, you'll have an easier time to move it around. Now, normally, I would use a shape like that to achieve this, but this shape will always stand out from the slide. So I'll just use this as my knife. Insert a shape, and I'll insert a big, big rectangle onto the slide. Like that. Alright, beautiful. I'll go to Shape Fill and give it this nicer red color. And I will just use my knife to get this result. I press Control D to duplicate this. I'll put this here. I hope it will be big enough to cover the picture. I'm selecting this object first, shift clicking on the my knife, Merge Shapes, subtract and I have a beautiful shape like that. By default, Powerpoint shapes have always an outline. So you could also click here and select no outline. So you have a perfect little object. Now, for the second object, I want something similar. I'm not going crazy or complicated here. I'm doing another rectangle. But my little thing is that I'm using the knife to cut this rectangle. What else could be done? You could right-click on this object, select Edit Points, and bring the point a little closer, but you will not be pixel perfect to the shape you already have. I'm pressing Control Z and Control D on my knife. If you bring your knife here, you will make sure that both of them will be perfectly aligned. And this is like such a simple workflow. You just do it like that. You get rid of the outline and what color do you have? You can change it to a white color. I'll not bore you with adding the text because for the textbox, you've already learned that you can go to insert textbox, but be sure to not click on the shape because if you click on the shape, you will start typing on the shape. I want actually a textbox, e.g. somewhere here. This is the main text and I will manually bring this here. This will allow me to move the text wherever I want. Do you remember the shortcut? To make text bigger, make text bolder, or if you don't want the text to be bolder and you have downloaded this leak Spartan font. I'll select leaks part and extra bold for a title like that. Beautiful, I really like that. For the subtitle, you simply can add another text box. I'll just press Control C and Control V to the bottom. And you've basically created dislike now for the little object on the right side, wouldn't you know it I would just do a little rectangle here. I'll make sure this is white and I'm just using my knife. What else? I'm selecting this shifting, this merge shapes, subtract beautiful. Now this shape will be perfect. Edges with dose and dose. Shape, outline, no outline, text. You don't have to double-check or think about it. You just press Control D on the texts. You put it here, you write something else. I will make it smaller with my shortcuts and beautiful. We have designed a complete slide in PowerPoint at customer slide that has taught us how to use this subtraction and merging tools to achieve customers old, barely anyone will do a slight like that. So you are an advantage because you have learned this already. I hope this was enjoyable. I want to go one level higher, one step further in the upcoming lectures. So please take your time. Do a slight like that. If you don't want to do all the knife cutting out, you can do normal rectangles as long as you will be able to add the text and add the shapes. I'm satisfied. Thank you and see you in the next lecture. 29. 04-06. Alignment: In this lecture, we'll talk both about alignment and distribution. After that, I'll have a little exercise for you to execute. In this enjoyable lecture, we'll talk about the alignment tools in PowerPoint. What are the alignment tools? If you select several items together, like I did here on this slide, you go to shape format. There will be a feature called align. It does exactly what it promises to do. It will align objects perfectly next to each other. In this case, e.g. I. Want to align them to the object most on the left side, which would be the first one. To do so, I can go align left by clicking it. It will perfectly align like that. Okay, We did the first step. Now let's take those objects on the right side. Let's see text number one seems to be the highest one. If you go again to align, you have left, center, right, you have top, middle, bottom. I want to align them to the furthest on the top side. So by aligning top, everything will be perfectly aligned. So far, so good. Let us go to the next slide. On the next slide, I want to tell you about distribution. Now, if I select those four items, I would like the spaces between them to be perfectly equal. Luckily, PowerPoint has a two like that. You can see I've added alignment to my favorites and I'm using this very often, so I have it on my Home tab. You can do this in the PowerPoint options, but by default it is under the Shape Format. And here we have aligned. You can distribute horizontally or vertically. This time, I want to distribute them vertically. And on the bottom you need to select if you want to align to the object you have selected, or if you want to align that to the slide. If I would select to the slide, it would perfectly distributed across the entire slide. Let me first select a line selected objects and just distribute them vertically. You can see now I'm sure that I have perfect gaps between them. If I would select them, go to Shape Format and I will change the alignment to the slide and I would distribute vertically. Right now, you can see this gap, this gap, this gap, this gap and this gap here on the bottom, would be perfect to the entire slide. And this is a very convenient way to work with alignment. Here, I want to distribute them horizontally. So I own the spaces between the textboxes to be perfect. With textboxes, it's sometimes a bit more difficult because the text is a bit smaller. The textbooks can be a bit larger. Align. I'll check back again, align the selected objects, and I'll simply distribute them horizontally. Beautiful. Now they are equal to each other. Now, your quest will be to simply arrange these in a more organized way. To do this, I'll select the left side, like the numbers. I'll go to Shape, Format, Align, Align Left. You can also align center, That's not a problem. And align, distribute vertically. Okay, now for the text, again, Shape, Format, align. It doesn't matter. You can align to the right side. You can just move your mouse and you can decide now if they are properly aligned, what is the problem here? This is one sentence, two sentences, I mean, in the height. So it might be a bit difficult to distribute this automatically. In that case, probably you need to distribute them by hand. What I always do, I take the last object. I tried to align it nicely. I take the first object. I tried to align it nicely in the middle, then I select all of them. I go to the alignment tools and distribute them vertically like that. You can see, since this is a bit smaller, I'll again have to nudge them with my arrow keys. That says the problem with alignment. But I wanted to make you aware of this problem, that it's not a magic solution for every problem. But it's a really useful tool to start aligning and at least making sure that things that are similar to each other can be placed pixel, perfect. Try it out and we'll see each other in a second. 30. 04-07. Slide 2 - Team: In this lecture, we will use the cropping and sizing features to make different pictures perfectly aligned and equal to each other. This is an exciting lecture because IL-2, how to use the cropping features to their fullest potential. You will never be afraid working with pictures. Take personal one, person two, and person three, and just drag and drop them into PowerPoint. And those are completely different sizes of pictures, but I'll show you something. I'm selecting the first one. I'm pressing shift on the second one and shift on the third one. I'm going to Picture Format. Cropping features, crop to shape, and choose a different shape, something difficult. This is also difficult for me to pronounce. Parallelogram. I've been trying so hard. I hope I'm approximately right. Okay. All pictures have the same shape but are still so different. This is where you have to click on each petal separately. Go to the cropping options, and go to Aspect Ratio, I want you to select. You can basically select an aspect ratio want, but for this shape, I think one-to-one will look really, really good. Now, this is the cropping. I don't want you to touch the cropping. I want you to actually resize the picture. This little circle here. I want you to resize the picture just so the head is approximately in the middle. Make sure that you don't go out of your I think this guy looks pretty okay in this shape. So no problem. Click again on crop to close the cropping and you're done. Now the second picture, the same crop aspect ratio, one-to-one. And like this picture is designed to be perfect here. So I don't, I just move it a bit to the right and that's perfect. Now the third picture, crop aspect ratio, one-to-one. And this picture is actually a bit smaller. So I'll just make her a bit bigger with the dots output. Current site, maybe a bit smaller. Maybe I overdone it like that. This should be okay, Beautiful. Now we have three pictures. Same cropping, same aspect ratio, and this is exactly what you wanted. Now you can take each picture and go to the size options. Those are little tricks. I use. Eight by eight or ten by 108 by eight. Beautiful. And we have 88. That's a bit extreme. Eight is okay here, size I plus eight and I press tab here, press as well eight and I press Tab PowerPoint by default tries to make the picture even. Okay, what have we achieved? We have achieved pictures that perfectly aligned to each other. So I'll put this on the left side of it. Powerpoint is helping me a little about that. And this on the right side of it. If you want if you want the object in the background, No problem. I'll show you another cool trick. Your Insert Shapes. Insert this shape. I will. And for the size, we want the size to be eight by eight. Okay? We didn't change the sizes here, so this should be perfectly fine and I'll put this behind. Right-click. Send to back. Maybe Shape Fill. I'll go for the red fill, shape outline for now, old line. And this way I have a nice background. How do I make sure that this background will be perfectly on the same size? Right-click Format Shape. Just for my convenience, I will actually click on the sizing options and I have the exact sizes here. And also the exact position, horizontal position, like this. Vertical position, 5.6, like this. When I duplicate this and they put it here, I want to make sure that I have five point. How many? 5.6 as well? I want this to be perfectly equal on the same size. Since tobacco, of course, I know that you are an advanced, powerful user and I know that you know that you can do this with the alignment tools, but I want to show you different ways of achieving like pixel perfection, 5.5, 0.6, beautiful. And this is what I wanted to achieve. Of course, we could also make equal spaces by dividing this horizontal position, but I don't want to waste time anymore. You can see the text as well. The text a little weirdly positioned. So I'll take the upper text boxes. Okay, this didn't select Shift, Click, shift, click this shape format, align, maybe align bottom. Put it a bit to the left side. And the bottom ones as well. Align, align this one, align to top, put them here. And I think we achieved perfect result by using the cropping tools and our positioning tools. Try this out and we'll see each other in a moment. 31. 04-08. Slide 3 - Thank You: In this lecture, we will put most of the things we've learned so far to use and design a slide like this. You are at the point where creating slides like that should be very possible. Please open the resource file, and here I have already brought the icon, the color, and you can start working directly. I want to give this entire slide some shape. So take Chorus Number Two picture, and I will put it somewhere on the left side. It seems that the picture is already like perfectly cropped. I wouldn't do anything more with it. Now the next step will be to add three shapes. I'll go to Insert Shapes. And this time instead of a normal rectangle, I'll use a rounded rectangle. Press on the rounded rectangle, start to position it on the slide. And redshift shift will allow you to make a perfect rectangle like this. Now, I think I should make the corners are a little bit less. You can just eyeball this and decide by yourself. For the Shape Fill. You can use the read from the presentation or go to eyedropper and select the color I have prepared for you. Now. Beautiful shape, outline. Make sure you have no outline and you can start to position this. I position this a little bit to the right side, maybe a bit bigger. I'll make this a bit bigger so we have space for the icon like that. Press Control D, put it under it and control the again under it. Now, you know what's happening here. If you want to make equal spaces on the top and the bottom, I would probably go to Shape Format, align, and I would simply aligned to slide and distribute them vertically. This way, I have equal spaces everywhere. If I want them smaller, you know that I have those shortcuts like shift and control at the same time and they would be at tiny, bit smaller, Alright, Something like that. Now I will take the icons. I'll put the icons ok. Right-click. Bring to front. I'll put this icon here. This doesn't have to be extremely precise, it just has to look good. We can make the icons smaller in a second. I think the icon could be tiny bit smaller or maybe just leave them as they are a bit lower. With my arrow keys, graphics Format, Graphics Fill, I will select white. Beautiful. Now for the text, I have some texts here. The text isn't as important, like 50 vehicles protected certified. You can do this by going to insert textbox, putting in textbooks somewhere else, and select 30 ft kit. Okay, I'll press on this entire textbooks. I will make sure the text is in the middle of this textbox and we have a white color. Now I can see, since we have texts, I would like this to be a little lower. I'll press Control D. Position this. Again. I'll press Control D. I'll position this here. What do we have? Like 50 plus v equals we have something like that here and here. Protection, we're a car lending company or something like that. So you are preparing these slides to look good for the main part. I think the main part is just a cosmetic aspect, but let me do this with you so you won't get lost at any point. I'll again insert a text box. I'll start inserting the text box. Our cars, our enter reliable. Sorry if I make any mistakes with the text leaks, pardon, extra bold. I will make this much, much bigger. I could do this with my shortcut, but I'll just do it like that. I'll select the button text, Shape, Format, text Fill, eyedropper, and I drop the color from the color I've prepared. I think we have a little bit too much space here and maybe too much space here. But this also looks really nice. Always make sure that you give yourself enough space to really visually like produce everything together on the previous slide, IC, I have some little texture. We could of course, do the same. Duplicate this existing text, bring it here. Delete most of the text, and change the color of the text to shape format to the red one. Now, everything seems complete to me. I hope you will be able to replicate the steps and do a similar slide. And you'll see yourself if you are capable of doing so already or if you need a little bit more practice, we are moving pretty fast here. So I'll completely understand if you are not there yet. 32. 05-01. Main Animations and Animation Pane: In this lecture, I will explain to you the main types of animations and what for is the animation pane. Hereby, I want to start a beautiful topic of animations within the PowerPoint. Let me go to this slide and at first explain you. Animations can be added to basically any object here inside of a slide by going to the animation step. When you click on the Animations tab, now everything is disabled. But if I click on anything specific like a shape with some texts and animations become available. The second thing is types of animations. We have four basic types of animations. We have entrance effects, which basically make something move into the screen. We have emphasis effect. Those are little effects like spinning or pulsating and exit effects. If we want something to go out side of the slide or simply disappeared. There is an additional category called motion pads, motion path. If I click on it, give some type of movement to an object and I can specify you were this object should move, okay, but that's for later. On a Mac version, it looks a little bit different. On the animation tab, you see the animations here on the left, middle, and right side. And we have to work with it like that. Okay, we've talked about the Animations tab and the types of animations we have available in PowerPoint. The last thing I would like to explain for this lecture is the animation pane. Just as we went to Home, select and open the selection pane. And the selection pane shows us everything that we have on a slide. The animation pane is a similar feature, but it shows us all the animations that are applied on the current slide. So if I select something, I give something F8, then they select something else and they give a different animation to that item. The animations will be displayed here on the animation pane. I know on the Mac, it's a tiny bit different, but it's very similar with the options under it. This is it for this lecture. In the next lecture, I'm going to show you something and we will slowly start to practice on those examples. 33. 05-02. Multiple Animations: In this lecture, I will teach you how to add multiple animations to one object in PowerPoint. Okay, here comes the training. Let's add multiple animations to one object in PowerPoint, I will go to the next slide. And when your animation pane is opened, you can see those numbers 123. This means this object has applied animations to it. And the animation will appear on my first, second, and third mouse-click. When I play this slide. When they played this slide, I would need to click once, twice. And the third is an Exit animation to go off the screen. And I want you to practice here on the right side and do something similar or even the same. Click on the left object. If you open your animation pane, you should see that multiple animations are on the rectangle tree. Now I want you to select the second rectangle and start off by clicking on the fate. This is a group because it's a shape and a textbox grouped together. It doesn't matter, it's only a named group number two has now one animation on it. On the Mac version, you can simply now click on an emphasis animation on in the middle. But on the Windows version, you need to add animation. Use this feature called Add animation to add another animation on top of the existing one. If I just click on polls now, it would replace the existing animation. But if I click on Add animation and edit on top of it with the poles here. Group two has now one and the other animation as well. You can build upon that and again, go to Add animation and give us an exit animation. You can decide for yourself if you would like to preview this animation because you are maybe new to PowerPoint, go on the bottom. More entrance effect. This window will appear and you can simply click around and preview them like that if you're on a Mac and this window isn't available, that's no problem. Just try to delete the left object, go to this object and just select, Play selected. This is a way to preview your animation. Remember, the mouse clicks will not work here. The mouse clicks work only when you play this slide. You've added three different animations. They basically should be on separate mouse clicks. You can press Shift F5 to previous slide and you can test if you've done it properly. This appears than some kind of posing animation. And then another Exit animation. And wallah, we've added three different animations to one object in PowerPoint. And this is basically how you animate with those animations. See you in the next lecture where we'll build upon that. And I will tell you about the different types of animations. 34. 05-03. Types of Animations: In this lecture, we will explore the different types of animations, meaning starting onclick, starting with previous, and starting after the previous animation. In this lecture, we will talk about types of animations. Let me go to the next slide. Let's practice here. You can see crazy animations are going on, but this is not the most important part. The most important part is when you click on this object, you can see instead of 123, I have with click number zero, which essentially means you don't need to click your mouse. This animation will happen. If I would go to the first animation and right-click on it. Select Start OnClick. It'll be one and another animation under it. This means that with my first mouse-click, multiple animations will happen. Why is that? Because here on the right side, each animation can be set when you right-click on it to start onclick, start with previous and start after previous. By default, if you click on one animation after another, they should be set to mouse clicks. But sometimes you don't want to click your mouse several times. So for the second animation, I'll right-click select that. This should start after the previous animation finishes. Let me preview that. Okay, I'm clicking my mouse. This was entering and started to rotate once it's finished entering. But what if you want the rotation to start right? When it already flies in? You would need to right-click here. And this is the most used feature I rarely use after previous, because with previous gives you more options because now I can decide whether they should start later or during this animation. And I can do so by just reducing or increasing or typing in the delay. So I'm delaying it by 070 5 s. I'm going to the last animation and I'm selecting as well to start with the previous. But since this is an Exit animation, a red animation, I need to make sure that this will be on the end. Because right now what would happen? The time flies from left to right. Just look at it. The animation will start. It will start to rotate and immediately exit. Let's preview this on a real example. You can see the exit happens far too quick. I need to click on the Exit animation and I need to delay it. Sometimes this causes errors when one animation overlaps another animation. Now this should everything play fine. I'll click my mouse. It rotates. And once it stopped rotating, it goes down. This is because I put the last animation very late after the yellow animation already has ended. I would like you in this lecture to try adding maybe several animations, at least two, at least two animations, maybe a fading animation and animation. Pause or jitter or spin. Spin is a good example. Now I can delete the left object and I can play around with the options. You can right-click, select OnClick, or without a click by selecting start with previous. I do like to work with start with previous. Here, start with previous, and they want to delay it. So I would play this slide. It would automatically fade in. And after 2 s, it will start to rotate. This is how you work with animations, how you delay them, and what types of animations, at least currently in PowerPoint are available to you. Please try around with those options. On the Mac. It's a tiny bit different, but you'll find it very quickly here within this menu. Thank you for listening. Let's work on that a little bit and then we can build more complicated animations later on. See you there. 35. 05-04. Animation Options: In this lecture, we'll actually double-click on an animation, go to effect options and explore what smooth, smooth, and, and bounds and gives us. Here, we'll talk about animation options and I really do like how we progress. Let's watch this animation. On the left, you have regular speed and underwrite there will be smooth and let's click my mouse. The regular speed flies with the same speed across the entire animation, but the smooth end starts little quicker, but then smoothly fades into its position. You can achieve that in PowerPoint by just selecting the object or just selecting the animation here on the right side. And on Windows, double-clicking on the animation. When you double-click on the animation, you are able to go to effect options on the Mac. The Effect Options should be here on the right side. Under the actual animations. Under the Effect Options, you are allowed to give the animation depending on the animation. Of course, not all animations have those options available, but an animation that goes over time, like flying hazard. So for this line, we can give it a smooth start. If you want it to start slower and then go faster, you can give it a smooth end or both if you want or a little bit of a bounce at the end. Let's try with the bounce. Let's press. Okay. You can see at the end, it bounces a little. This way. You can adjust the speed and tempo of animations. But if you have an animation, e.g. the fate, of course a fate is a fate. And basically, if I double-click on the faith, I go to the Effect Options. I will not have the smooth ER, smooth because there's no movement over time. So what do you want to smooth? You could maybe smooth the fading, but this is basically done by extending the duration of the animation big because each animation has its duration and its delay. How long the animation takes, and how late does it start? If I preview this now, you can see this fate would go very slowly into the screen. This is how you enable and change the animation options. What I want from you, I want you on the second object to, of course, give it, gives it flying or something that moves. The line would be the best example. Increase the duration two, maybe 3 s. I can even delete the first shape if I don't want to get confused. Right now, double-click on it or select the options here on the bottom with a Mac. And practice with smooth start. Then change everything to smooth and then to bounce and bounce and cannot be to the maximum amount because it bounces too much. I mostly enjoyed the smooth end, but you need to know how the smooth start looks. This is everything for this lecture, please practice that yourself. See you in the next lecture. 36. 05-05. Animaiton Project 1: In this lecture, you will actually practice to create animations on your own. We will create a project like this. I know this was a lot to take in, in the previous lectures about animations. Animations or something that you need to practice and learn over time. But you will do so by doing those products with me. Let's see, what do we have to create within this lecture? Within this lecture, I want you to create an animation that will make those backgrounds. E.g. I. Would have a slide where I explained you those three things. And I would like to highlight the background with those rectangles and I would animate the rectangles from the left side like this. Now, you should go to the next slide and do this on your own. Here on the top side, you have some instructions. So how do we work? How do we add animations to a slide? Keep in mind the shortcuts that we use. I also add the first item. I will press Shift and select the next one, shift, still holding, and select the last one. I'll select flying. You can see everything flew in from bottom and everything is happening at the same time. You just need to learn how PowerPoint works. On the right side, some of the effects will have its effect options. The flying has options to fly in from different directions. I will select from left because this is the most logical for me and it will just fly in from the left side. You can see everything happens with mouse-click number one because I've selected all three items when I edit it, we've completed the first task. The second task is to extend the duration to 1.5 s. How do we do this? We just click on the animations here on the right side. I can again press Shift and select the last animation to select all of them at once. And just increase the duration to 1.5. Alright, it takes a little longer to find anything. It's nice. Before we go to option number three, I can right-click and select Start on click. This will make sure that when I click my mouse click items will fly into the screen because I want to have time to talk about this. Okay? The last thing, apply a smooth end. You should now know from the previous lectures how to apply a smooth. And if not, you can double-click on the animation effect and give it a maximum smooth. And now you will have to do this manually for each animation. Or if you are lazy. There is an advanced trick. By selecting the animation painter. You can select an object. And you can see this option animation painter. It works just like the Format Painter to format the colors and everything over. You can paint animations over. So why did we create a tree and emissions when we could paint them in the first place? I want you to practice PowerPoint. And if you are new to animation, advanced users can use the animation painter and just paint this animation over. Again. Animation painter paint this animation over. But I'd prefer if you do this manually by double-clicking, going to the effect, just to start looking and learning this panel, if you're more advanced, you can use the animation painter. My result will be this slide. We'll wait until I click my mouse or keyboard first, second, and third time as I please, this is your request. Please try to do so. Good luck and see you there. 37. 05-06. Transitions: In this lecture, we will learn about transitions within PowerPoint and how to change their duration. Trust me, I would love to sit with you and do plenty of animation product, but I have animation courses for that reason specifically, this is a crash course. In this lecture, I would like to talk about transitions. You can see there's a little star on this slide, because this slide, this indicates that PowerPoint has a transition or an animation on an object. This star will appear. Whenever you add a transition, you can see a star appeared or if something on the slide. When I go to animation, I give it an animation. This little star appears. What our transitions, transitions are, the things that happened between the slides, from slide to slide to it. It doesn't happen on this slide, but between this slide, animations are on the slide, but transitions are how this light will move to the next slide. Of course, the most popular tradition will always be fade until the end of time, I suppose. But let's do something different. Let's do the push transition just so we see what happens. And in the Effect, Options vary. Similar to the animation options. We can select the push to be from left, from right. It depends on the animations you are trying to achieve. I gave this slide a transition. This means when I finished my previous slide, this slide will appear how I selected, I selected to be pushed from the right side. And exactly this happens. You can practice this by selecting the blue slide or the red light here, or any other slide you have. And you can just click around. Especially if you are new to PowerPoint, I would suggest that you click around with a lot of the bud. Just keep in mind that a lot of them, at least in my opinion, are very cheesy and basically obsolete. 90% of those transitions I don't use. I use, of course more about that later. I use fight, I use push IOUs, wipe and split. Basically the first ones are the most used by me. Sometimes, occasionally I use something different, but those look the best, the cleanest and demos model, of course, some of them are pretty cool, but it depends on the actual presentation and you need to go with your feeling about the animation. Now, one important thing about transitions that many people miss, at least here on the Windows version, I believe on the Mac version, it should be the same. On the transition step. Basically on the right side, we have the timing section. The timing section says you how long the transition will take, like e.g. if I make a fade transition, it will take 0.7 s. I could make it less or more. This doesn't matter, but you need to remember. How do you want PowerPoint to advance your slide? Do you want PowerPoint to wait for your mouse-click? Then you need to select this option. If I deselect this option and tell PowerPoint, hey, advance my slides after 3 s. Unless there are animations, because animation would play to the end, then powerpoint would take 123. And we'll go forward. Sometimes you want to time your presentation perfectly or you may want to make a video, then you use the timings, but the majority of the time you'll use the mouse onclick, but sometimes by mistake, you click that off or you select this one and your presentation goes automatically, does No wait for you and you are in trouble and don't know why the animation progresses without you clicking the mouse. Just keep in mind that this option is up there. This is everything about transitions. Let me go to the next animation project I'd like to do with you. 38. 05-07. Animation Project 2: In this lecture, we'll practice some animation. I'll give you several instructions to follow to practice the knowledge you've gained so far. Here I have a slide with advantages and disadvantages of using PowerPoint. And I've animated all the object here. I can press Shift F5 to preview this slide. And I want you to create something similar where each mouse-click will reveal one option. But what happens here? Apparently, some animations aren't in the right order. Let's correct that. Let's learn how to do this. Let me go to the next slide. This is the slide where I want you to practice on, okay, give everything a fade. No problem. I'm selecting everything. And I'm selecting fate, okay? Everything happens with my mouse-click. So we will correct that in a second. Now, practice selecting multiple animations. Selecting multiple animations can be done by clicking on the first animation, pressing your Shift button and selecting the last animation, or e.g. if you want, just treat animations, you can select them like that. Please. Try to learn how to do this. I hope on the Mac version is the same. If not, please do let me know how to select multiple animations on a Mac. I believe it should be possible as well. This was item number two on our list. Apply on mouse-click to all of them. You shouldn't have any trouble to select the first one. Select the last one, right-click, and select Start on click. This way, we've selected that each animation will happen after we click our mouth. Now, check correct order. Since PowerPoint doesn't know what is, what is here, what is here, what is here? What is your, it just takes the name of the object and it applied the animations accordingly as PowerPoint a sulfate. And as you can see, the order is completely messed up. How I work when something like that happens. I click on the first object. I see what is highlighted here on the right side, and I just put it higher. You can very easily switch the numbers of the animations. Now I click on this and they bring it as the second. Now I click on the next one, the third, actually this one is okay, number four should be here. It's much, much easier. Now, I'm mistaken those groups. It is much easier if the shapes have their own distinctive names. But since here we have just a bunch of groups. It's a little difficult to work with, but we have to somehow manage. Okay, I'll put this textbox here. I'll select the next one. It seems it's okay. Number five, number six, number seven, number eight, beautiful. We have corrected everything. Now a little bonus is to extend the animation to have 1 s. You should already know how that works. You can select animations. You can either select all of them or select the manually and increase their duration. Why am I doing this multiple times? You to get familiar with changing the duration and changing the delay. What would happen if I would give it 1 s of delay? When you click your mouse, it will wait 1 s until it starts. Let me show you now we have everything correct. I will click my mouse. After 1 s disappears. Sometimes when you are talking within the presentation, you want items to appear later. Not often. Sometimes you do. And this is where you would like to use a delayed, okay, we've created this beautiful animation. I can speed it up a little bit to not wait on each animation. Now we've completed another little animation product, and this is something that you very often do when you create videos, are slides that will be explained like this. I hope you are enjoying this. You are learning a lot and let's see each other in the next lecture when we talk about something else. 39. 05-08. Morph: In this lecture, we will talk about the Morph transition and what it does with things on your slide. This is a crash course, but the Morph transition is that important to PowerPoint that I have to give it a separate lecture within my animation courses. I'll explain this more in detail and with product examples. But what happens when you use the Morph transition? This is a special kind of transition that was added within PowerPoint 2019. And with each newer version, you should have it available. If you don't, then simply you can use fate or just watch this lecture to learn. More. Transition allows you to move items around, not with animations, but with transitions. Look at this slide. I have this on the left and this on the right. Now I took this, I just duplicate this slide or maybe let's, let's show to you how I do this. I will take this. I'll make this bigger. I'll put this here and I'll take this on the right side, and I'll move this out side of the slide. Now I click on morph. And this, a beautiful transition happens. Of course the text fades because everything that PowerPoint doesn't understand, it will simply fade. Instead of transitioning. What happened here, I told PowerPoint, hey, take the items from the previous slide and animate them like that. Transition into them like that. And instead of a simple transition like fate or push, I'm using the morph and PowerPoint tries to move the object from the previous state into the newer state when this is useful, especially exactly in slides like that. Because here I could at first show you all the boxes, then I could make animations, beautiful animations like this. Now, you should practice on the last slide, on the last slide with the two circles. If you have the Morph transition, I want you to take the two circles, go to the next slide and bring them somewhere else, make them of a different size. Since PowerPoint is calculating from the previous slide and you click on Morph, you'd get this beautiful animation. But what happens if there are more objects? Now? Here we have two objects, here we have three. Let's test it. If you click on More, you can see two items were morphed, but this third one, PowerPoint didn't know where to take it from. So PowerPoint simply faded this object in. If you would like this object to be animated as well, I would need to copy this object and bring it to the previous slide. Now, this is advanced. I don't expect you to understand this right away. This is a feature that you have to practice with. I just want to show you the capabilities. Why is this used and what this is used for? This is used when you aren't able to achieve that with animations within PowerPoint. And a lot of that can be achieved, or it's very difficult to achieve, you'd have to select the motion paths to give this object movement. You will have to select grow, shrink to make the object smaller. But with the Morph transition, you just make the smaller like that. Boom, boom, boom. In 1 s powerpoint automatically calculate with the transition. Boom, we make this smaller, we make this different. And this is a 3D animation. What's the problem with that? The problem with that is that this is a transition happens between this slide, not an animation that happens on the slide. So when you record your video, I'm talking, I'm talking, I'm talking. Now I need to press my mouse-click. And if you record within PowerPoint, this part isn't recorded. The part where the animation happens now the slightest active and I would again record, record, record. I'm using an outside recorder, the PowerPoint recorder, but if you want to use the PowerPoint recorder and record videos directly here, then this will become an issue. Don't worry if you don't understand completely what I'm talking about now, you need to simply click around with those features. I'll talk about recording a little later. And I had to include them or feature here within this crash course. Even though this is an advanced concept, I hope you don't mind. You've learned a little bit of what this is capable of. You cannot really use that right now, but in the future, you surely will. So do not worry and see you in another lecture. 40. 05-09. Zoom: In this lecture, I will showcase the zoom feature to you, a special feature that allows you to take different slides from the presentation and zoom into them. Am I bombarding you with difficult features? Now, let's talk about the zoom feature. Basically the morph and the Zoom are features that have been added in PowerPoint 2019. There's one feature allows you to take a different slide, e.g. any, from this presentation and drag and drop it onto your existing slide. Previously, in older versions of PowerPoint, if I remember correctly, this would be now just a screenshot. But here, this is an interesting feature because I can, when playing this slide, this slide doesn't matter. I can click on the slide to directly get back into it. Now I can go back to, come back to my original slide. You can see when I click on this new feature, a new tab, a specific tab called Zoom app here. And on the right side it tells you, hey, this is slide number 12th, but it is here. Now we'll take this slide. Let me go for another slide from this presentation. And why would that be useful? E.g. sometimes, let me click on Zoom. Sometimes you are at the end of your presentation, but there were like two or three slides that are super-important, extremely important for your presentation. So you just take them here and when you're discussing with your audience, you can get to them back really quickly. Of course, you can get them back manually, but doesn't feature is a cool feature. One thing you need to remember about Zoom, that it can bring you e.g. I'm currently on slide 24. But since here on the bottom, this is slide number seven. I'm going to slide number seven. And I'm back again at slide number seven in my presentation, I cannot easily get back to the bottom. So you need to be very careful how you use the zoom feature, especially if you have like hundreds slide in your presentation and you don't want to get so deep back. One thing you can do with the Zoom, Clicking on Zoom and select return to Zoom. This will make sure that you aren't allowed to travel to your presentation. You are only allowed to preview this one slide, and this is very, very convenient. I'll press Shift F5. Now, I can only get to the slide. And when I click my mouse or my keyboard to the right or to the left, I'll simply get back to this one slide. This will make sure that I will make no mistakes traveling through my entire presentation. A really cool theater doesn't have anything else to it. You can click on Zoom backgrounds. So if there's light doesn't have a background, it will simply delete it. It will not take the background into consideration. This looks even better because now I will basically have a transparent item here on the slide. I could basically create slides within slides and make cool animations like that. E.g. three slides will be connected like a train, and I will just click on the first part of the train. Then I would click on the second part of the train. Then I would click on the front part of the train. This is a concept that I think PowerPoint and Microsoft did look a little bit up from Prezi. Prezi had those similar feeling animations and they simply added something like that. It's useful to know, not very often used, but very fancy. See you in the next lecture when we talk about different things. Again. 41. 06-01. Disclaimer: Hello, Welcome. We are moving into advanced territory when it comes to PowerPoint usage. Technically, if you are new to PowerPoint, you should have difficulties in this section, but I have to include those things to just show you what PowerPoint is capable of. What's the upper ceiling of PowerPoint? And advanced users who already know a little bit about PowerPoint will be able to see if they can work with vectors, if they understand graphs a little bit, if they can record videos, or if they understand what templates are. If you want to learn those things slower in much more detail, I will recommend you my masterclasses. This however, is a PowerPoint crashed cars, and they need to include those things to show you the plethora of available tools in PowerPoint to really get the most of this software. Lets start right in the next lecture, buckle up. And let's go. 42. 06-02. Inkscape and Illustrator: In this lecture, we will learn to create custom shapes that you can bring from other programs directly into PowerPoint. One of the biggest problems, in my opinion with PowerPoint is that when you go to Insert Shapes and want to insert different custom shapes, not everything in the world is available. E.g. I. Use a triangle and they cannot really get rounded corners on this triangle. But luckily, we can use outside software to very quickly overcome this problem to like e.g. the free program called Inkscape that you can download completely for free. In this program, I'm no expert at vector software, but on the left side, we have simple tools to intro the different shapes, e.g. I'll inset this time a triangle. I will press my control key. You remember the Shift and Control key and PowerPoint? They work the same just the other way around. Control is shift, shift is console. Okay, I've inserted a triangle. Let me go to the roundness options and decreased around this because I want a normal simple triangle. In this program, you can go to path. On the bottom we have path effects. Under the path effect that we have here opened. I can click the plus sign and I can simply apply an effect to this shape called corners. Once I apply the effect, I can simply increase the radius like that. If I select the node tool, I'll even see all the different points. And I can just grab them and move them around, e.g. this one like that, this one like that. And I have a completely custom shape. What else can you do? We can basically do anything with the, depending on the amount of corners. Let me create a new shape. Let me deselect this one. Let me create a new shape with this time. Maybe five corners. Press Shift Control. I'll rotate it a little bit around. The same way into the paths. I could add the corners effects again. Let me select the appropriate tool. Now the Nodes tool, I'll increase the radius just to start off. And basically, I could create those custom designs right here in Enscape, e.g. something like that would create a nice shield for me. Maybe the bottom should be a little bit rounded as well. I'll use the selection, I'll press Control C. I'll go to PowerPoint and I can directly control V, paste this object into PowerPoint. Let me rotate it. As you can see, PowerPoint already knows that this is a graphic. I can change the fill of this object. If you want to convert this to shape. No problem. Right-click. Select convert to shape. Now PowerPoint treat this not as a graphic, but as I shaved. Those are very similar when it comes to the editing capabilities. And this way, I've inserted something that would take a long time to create in PowerPoint. I personally also have Adobe Illustrator, CS6 and older version. But this doesn't matter if you are a little bit capable of working with Adobe Illustrator. I'm not so much capable of doing so. I can draw simple shapes. I know that I can go to Effect Stylize. There is something like round corners. Newer versions of Illustrator of course have those handles to change the corners right away. I have an older version. Suddenly this is the last one I bought. And I can increase the radius or decrease it, doesn't matter. What matters to me is that I can Control C, I can open PowerPoint, and I can Control V. This back again into PowerPoint from Illustrator, PowerPoint treats this as a picture at first, but if you right-click Group, Ungroup, PowerPoint will ask you, do you want to convert it to a Microsoft Office Drawing Object? Yes. Now this is a Microsoft Office shape. So this is how you can use third-party software, especially in escaped, to bring in custom shapes that you can draw them into PowerPoint and you will be one step above anyone else working in PowerPoint. 43. 06-03. Slide Design 4 - Our Office: In this lecture, I'd like to create such a simple slide using the aforementioned Inkscape. If you don't install the software, you could of course do this in PowerPoint. You could use a rounded rectangle to do this, but if you want, we can try using Inkscape. I've prepared the size of my canvas by going to File Document Properties. And under Document Properties, I change this to pixel. You can go for centimeters. I just made the width and height to be full HD. I need to reduce this back now. And what I did, I actually want to create three corners because I want a rounded rectangle. I press Control to do it like that. I make sure that under the path effects, I click on Plus edit the corners and I add a roundness like that. You could use the node tool or you just leave it like that. No position this on your slide. I think this is too much, this is too big. I'll make this smaller. And this is a nice way to work in Inkscape because you can approximately judge how much of this triangle you need. I think we can go into the node tool and we can decide whether we want the higher to have it bigger like this roundness here and beautiful. I think we're done. I'll take something like that, Control-C and I'll put it directly into PowerPoint. If you don't use the software, I will just duplicate it. I will leave it for you here somewhere else so you can start working right away. Now, how to make this complete? I'll introduce shaped by going to Insert Shapes and I'll insert a rectangle that will simply cover those corners. I can either group them or not. I press Control G under the Shape Fill, I change the color. What color do you want? I think we want the red one and beautiful. Right-click. Sorry, right-click. Send it to back because I wanted the text to be in front. Actually, I'll take this shape and I'll press Control D. I'll change the color of the shape, Shape Format and graphic format because we have two different objects. And let us use this dark, blackish grade. It doesn't really matter. I just want to put it a little bit behind. And now where is the text? Home? Select, selection pane? I'll take the text and put it as the first one. This way, I will make it visible. I know that you understand the rest. If you want, you can go to the folder with photos and music and from the photos, get the office photograph. Get the office photograph. Put it somewhere here. Right-click. Send to back. I'll put this to the right side. And if you want e.g. I. Thought that on the right side we have two little elements. You can use this triangle or use something completely different. I actually use something completely different to put here on the right side, I went to insert shapes and I went for a simple triangle. This is the advantage of using them directly in PowerPoint, something like that. I was thinking if this is okay, if this looks good or not. So I duplicate this one. Again. I made this a bit smaller and I changed the shape color of it to match the main dark color. This is it, this would be for a custom slide using Inkscape to basically draw the most important shape at first and then have to work much, much quicker during usage in PowerPoint, I will leave this shape here. I'll make sure to edit in the resources. If you don't use Inkscape, that's no problem. I just want to show you the capabilities of the soft. Thank you very much for listening. Try creating a slight like that. And we will see each other in the next lecture where we talk about something different. 44. 06-04. PowerPoint Charts: In this lecture, I want to tell you something a little bit about PowerPoint. Enter Charles. Now we have a very colorful color scheme, so the charts aren't looking that great. But let us start. Charts are inserted by going to Insert. And there's a specific feature called chart. Of course, normally you need some data to, wants to visualize. But by default, you are not working with charts without the data, but you have different types of charts. Of course, most of your information needs will be presented on a line chart or a column chart. You have different types of charts. It's not the time to explain them. I have a detailed PowerPoint business course where I talk a lot about data visualizations and charts and which charts to use when and what options do we have? But let's start with a column or a line chart. A column chart is something that represents data next to each other. When you insert a chart in PowerPoint, by default, it has its own dataset up. And basically, you can change or replaced the data with your dataset by going here and pasting it directly, or just changing the values if you want. Okay, we have inserted a chart. Let me maybe delete the existing charts so we see everything better. Select the data by filtering or selection. Let's say that you don't want the purple data. It's serious. Number two, in our case, this is e.g. time like January, February, March, and April. And this would be like number of sales and you don't want the purple sales. There is a filter option here on the right side, and you can just choose the filter and de-select this. Apply. This way. You would have only those two. The most easy way to learn chart is by going to the Chart Design. Add Chart Element. And here you can preview everything that you can add, enabled or disabled to a given chart. You can add or enable the primary horizontal or primary vertical x and so on. You can click around through here and you can see what would give me if I select Data Labels. You can see data labels are simply the numbers with the values put directly here. The second way to select something in PowerPoint here is to directly click high e.g. note that I can click on the left axis, on the right axis, on the series itself, and so on. What does that bring me? This is better explained. If you right-click. This is the chart components. We selected data. Now we are talking about chart components, specific options. So let us click on one specific component, like the x-axis. When I right-click, I select Format axis. You can see not only the normal filling options like you are used to because the filling options would be basically how this looks. But there is one additional option regarding this chart. Just as we selected pictures, we had specific options, two pictures, when you select a different types of charts, you'll have the different options here. Now is not the time to explain each single option here. We can change plenty of X's options here. And here, I wanted to show you what we are capable of, e.g. if you want the data to be displayed differently, the minimum being two and the maximum being 100. You could change that. Of course, I cannot afford this chart, but it's possible to change that. Especially if the units as well, you can do the major units each five, then there'll be a lot more units displayed. Of course, 100 is too much for this type of chart. Some charts are limited in PowerPoint, so I'm sorry, they are just about right. What I like about PowerPoint charts. There are plenty to choose from, and the most important and basic ones are represented. That's the most important part. And we can edit them directly here in Power Point without using any third party software or tool. Now it's not the time to talk more about chars. This is a specific topic that requires to be explained in detail, not just in one lecture. I just wanted to note what possible in PowerPoint that you have those options here. If you want to know more, please consider checking out my business course. I will leave you the link and there you can find out a lot more about PowerPoint charts and data visualization. Thank you for watching and listening to this lecture. I will see you in the next one. 45. 06-05. Recording Videos: In this very video, we will explore the recording tab and learn how to use the PowerPoint recorder to actually start making videos with PowerPoint. While you are really still here. I'm glad to see you and let's talk about recording speech and videos within PowerPoint. You've probably been looking forward to this. This is a slide on the transitions tab. On the right side we have the timing of this slide. And the timing and animations are important. When I talk about this slide. Here I can see I have 123 mouse clicks to explain this slide. No problem. Let me go to the Recording tab. And actually not from beginning but from current slide because I want to record those two slides that they can later expert to video from current slide. The recorder in the newest version of PowerPoint is amazing. Previously, it was a white screen where we just hit Start and needed to record. But currently we can change the view, the teleprompter view or the slide to you or the presenter view. I prefer the presenter view because the presenter view gives you the next animation on the right side so you don't get lost in what you are saying. Alright, let's start the recording. I can start my recording and I will tell you something about the alignment at first, this is my first mouse-click. I would tell you about the alignment. I can even take something to point this to a laser pointer, or I can even draw directly here on my PowerPoint slide with the pen or with the marketing tool. Okay, this is the pen tool, this is the alignment. Please take a look at in a moment. I'll tell you about top alignment, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I would tell you about something, about something. And I will explain you the next, next step. My next slide already had and recording, I'll press escape. And what's happened now? Since I have this recording, PowerPoint didn't delete it, but I could delete it to re-record this slide. Let's say that I only recorded this slide. You can see PowerPoint has added everything like that. Powerpoint has literally made an ink animation out of this feature available in newer versions of PowerPoint, I think 2019 introduced that. And what do we have here? The only reason there was no speech because I'm currently using my microphone. But here on the top side, you can select whether you want to use the microphone. It actually recorded through my headset, and whether you want to use a camera. Currently, my camera is also in use. If I enable the camera, I would be visible here on the right side. And there will be a recording on the bottom, just like we have here with my voice. If you go to the transition step, since we took about 30 s to talk here, you can see PowerPoint has automatically set the timing of this slide to thirty-seconds because this was how long the ink recording and my speaking recording was playing. If I click on play on the slide, you can see that it will play automatically during those 30 s with the specific recording I did, even with the laser pointer in a moment, I would like them to use the highlighter powerpoint recorded basically a video inside this slide. If you want, you can go to File Export, create a video. And you could create a video just by pressing on this button. You can go for full HD or even for k If you want 60 FPS, I recommend that. And you could create a video. It would use recorded timings and durations. And basically you would have already a video. Of course it would export all the slides because PowerPoint by default exports all the slides. But there is little trick if you don't want other slides to be exported, e.g. only this one you can right-click and select here on the bottom side. Height slide. Essentially, this would make this slide invisible to PowerPoint. You can see it's crossed out. And PowerPoint would export only this slide and this slide and all the rest that I didn't height yet. This is how you start to create videos and PowerPoint. Again, all the capabilities of what I told you now are explained in my animation courses. I do feel a little weird that I'm telling you about other of my courses, but this is a crash course. This is not a course about recording videos with PowerPoint. I have courses specific to this very topic. That's the end. Thank you very much for listening and see you in the next topic. 46. 06-06. Customizing colors: When you go to the Design tab variant and open the colors and define a new color scheme by clicking on customized colors. Then under the Shape Format and shape fill, you will have those specified colors. Hear more about that in this lecture, I think. And I also hope that you feel that those advanced topics normally would require a little bit more time to explain. The next topic is basically moving into creating templates in PowerPoint. Let me show you under the Design tab, there are templates. I have some different templates that I did by myself. The default PowerPoint template that I don't really enjoy it because they are overused and seen so many presentations already. But apart from the design part of your presentation on the right side, what's more important to me are the variance. Under the variance, I can specify the color of the presentation and the funds of the presentation. And this takes out so much of your work because if you specify the colors, I e.g. have a couple of different ones that I prefer heuristic for this crash course, the initial colors I wanted to use but I didn't. But they are still cool. I'll click on them and I'll show you what happens. Those are the colors I defined for this course that I wanted to use at first. When I go to Insert Shapes, I'm starting to insert a shape. You can see now it is the same color because those are the new defined accent colors X and number 123456. The advantage of using those colors are that if you change them, powerpoint will automatically change the shapes as well to the colors you've selected. Let me show you this on an example. Here on the right side. I'll give a completely custom color to this object. Shape, fill more fill colors, and I'll do something. Maybe I want this color. Sometimes it is good to do those custom colors, but PowerPoint will no longer know because I've changed this to a custom color. Powerpoint. No longer nose is discolored. Number one, is this column number three, or is this a different color? Urban knows this is a custom color. I no longer know how to change this. If I would go to Design. It's not often that you change your color scheme and design during creating a presentation, but if I change the colors to a different design, e.g. let's select something red. I have the red ones I remember here on the bottom. And I'll select red number two. You can see this automatically convert it into a red color because PowerPoint knew, hey, I still know that this shape is color number one. But here, this one state, because PowerPoint no longer knows, hey, is this color number 12.3. So the advantage of using defined colors is pretty obvious, but sometimes you want to go for custom colors. And this is why I sometimes plays colors on the side of my slide. I simply color items using that e.g. I. Press Alt tree to change the color to this one because I have them on the right side of my presentation. How to change colors. This is pretty simple and pretty amazing actually. Under the Design tab, if you go to variance and you open colors, you can see I have those different color schemes. Those are basically x, m, l files that you import into a specific folder on your system. But if you don't want to import them, you can press some customized colors. You can customize the colors here. You can give them a name, a cool name. I will change the color to something else, a cool name, and you can press Save. From now on. You will have this color scheme always available here. A cool name. Usually you go to an outside website like Adobe color or color dot C-O, you take a nice color scheme to bring it here in the PowerPoint, trying to replicate the colors, trying to show PowerPoint the color number 123456. And you save this and you have this for future reference or for all your presentations. When I work, I select one color scheme per one PowerPoint file, like I did here. I select that one purple and colorful color scheme for this entire presentation, this entire course. And I'm not changing that. If I select this color scheme ones, I will probably not change it throughout this entire presentation anymore. This is why I like to have colors on the right side and quickly grab them from here, even if I don't specify them in PowerPoint. This is a concept that requires a bit of practice to be understood. Don't worry as you work in PowerPoint. And maybe if you take my masterclass, there is a specific section about, you will probably hate me about that. I'm referring to my other courses, but this is a crash course you went into here to learn PowerPoint quickly and get a glimpse and the grasp of the possibilities. With that knowledge. Let's move to the next lecture. 47. 06-07. Templates: In this lecture, we'll explore the design tab and take a look at templates. What are the benefits of using them and how they actually work here. We cannot learn about PowerPoint templates in 10 min, right? Well, I can tell you as much as I can. Powerpoint templates are exactly what you see on the Design tab. Those are considered to be PowerPoint template. To me, PowerPoint templates is a set of options that specify my colors, my two main fonts, and a couple of layout, what our layout will be in a second. But a template is essentially established. The View tab under the Slide Master. Let me go into this magical place. Why am I saying a magical place? Because in PowerPoint, we have one slide master that basically determines your entire presentation. Here. I have just a purple box. And since I have this purple box here, all the layouts that I use have to respect the Slide Master. If a purple box is on the slide master, all your slides or your layouts that we will talk in a second about. We'll have this purple shape in the background. I could also format the background, but I chose to use a rectangle. Or if you don't want items that are on the Slide Master, e.g. brand guidelines to be visible on a specific layout. There is an option to hide background graphics. If you select that, the background graphics from the Slide Master will be hidden. So if I go back to PowerPoint, you can see now this is on every slide because basically all the layouts have it. I'll click on new slide. If I right-click and choose a layout that doesn't have it discussed on first layout, I will have the white background and this green item won't be here. Okay, let's get back to the Slide Master. Under the Slide Master, you can specify by going to fund which fonts will be applied within this presentation for this entire course, I selected the league sports font in normal and bold, and that's what I'm sticking to. I'm having the league Spartan, I'm having the colors, custom number ten. And this could be saved as a template. I have specified now everything within this presentation, I've specified the color of the background, the colors and the fonts. And I can go to Close Master view. I can go to Design. And I can save this as a PowerPoint template. Let him press Save Current team. I'm opening this safeguarding team. This great template. Alright, I've saved this great template. What happens now? I have a new PowerPoint file I'm starting to design and I think to myself them the last template I had had such beautiful colors. Let's go to the Design tab. Let's click on it. It was called, How was it called? This greater template. Okay, the last one, I'll click on it and boom instantly. My presentation has the font. Has the font for the smaller things, has the background. Each new slide I will create, it basically has the background only this one doesn't. I have different layouts that I've saved myself. I'll tell you about layout in a second. And under the colors home, when they insert a shape, I already have those beautiful colors specified. The green one was a mistake. And this is why templates are useful but aren't mandatory. Sometimes you don't need templates. You basically can design this by yourself. Change the colors in the Design tab here in the variance, or have your favorite color schemes and fund collections. And basically, this is also almost a template. A template is just a package of options for PowerPoint. Then you can apply to this given PowerPoint file in one click, but they won't copy over two different computers. So you need to make sure that you know what you have available. This is it about templates. And in the next lecture, let me explain layouts to you. 48. 06-08. Layouts: In this lecture, we will discuss PowerPoint layout. I'll tell you what they are used for, what are the benefits and what are the disadvantages of using them? Honestly, I didn't understand PowerPoint, templates, layout, and design variance for plenty of years. And I'm basically trying to call myself a PowerPoint expert. Powerpoint is capable of creating different layout. This, in theory, should speed up your design process when you work in PowerPoint, layout can be selected directly here, right-click layout or I have a layout with texts and photos. I no longer have to design this anymore because I can quickly the text here I can quickly input. This is especially for companies who always have a specified design process and how there are templates should look. It's very quick to design that way. And when I drag and drop a photograph, it will automatically snap into the place where I prepared the placeholder for the picture. How is this done internally? Let me go to view. Let me go to Slide Master, and this is your company's presentation. Maybe there's your company logo. Let's pretend that my logo is two triangles, and they are always here in the corner. You cannot get rid of them because they are under Slide Master. And your company or your boss tells you you want a slide with three pictures on the bottom side to look good. You are essentially clicking on Insert layout. To insert another layout into the presentation. You are going to insert placeholder. And here you can decide if you want a placeholder with all types of content. Maybe here on the top side. Let me do it like that. This is a place holder. You maybe saw it in PowerPoint. This is a place holder that depending on what you click, this will be added to PowerPoint. The text is specified what I want here. I want the text to have white color. I should specify this for the entire presentation on the slide master. But let's pretend that I'm doing this just for this layout. Now, under the Slide Master, I'll insert different placeholders. I'll insert three placeholders for pictures. I tried to make them approximately the same size or they will be the same size, but I'll try to approximately position them nicely. I can make sure that I did a good job if you know, by going to the align that and distributing them horizontally. Okay, everything seems to be distributed fine. And I just created a new layout for myself. I can duplicate this layout and e.g. I don't want a title on this layout. There'll be a textbox and pictures here on the right side. Let's see how that looks. Of course this doesn't look very good, but I'm just telling you two different examples of layout. Okay? I've created two different layout. Let me close the Master View and you are creating a presentation within your company. And you know that this is the time when you want to create a layout number, this or this layout with the pictures on the bottom side. Okay. I'm selecting this layout. I can insert a chart here. Of course this would make no sense, but let me insert a chart here. It automatically will place into the placeholder and three pictures. This is definitely something we can find. Let's go to the photos, music and icon's folder. I'll select photos and three, any pictures that you want, you drag and drop them and they perfectly fit into the placeholders. This is the little advantage of using placeholders because they, everything will fit perfectly right off the bat. Of course, probably you need to click on this picture, click on Crop and Resize this picture. Maybe if you wanted just the head here, but this is only cosmetics. The basic work was already done. What's the disadvantage? The disadvantage is that if you select something like that, it will always look the same. Some companies prefer that, but if you aren't changes, you basically need to change this manually anyway, e.g. if you want the pictures to be bigger and you do not have a layout for that. You either create a new layout or you change this by hand. And now I will have a different slide. Let me maybe use the three persons that we had previously. And this is a bit too big. I should crop this, but this is just an example. This slide. Even though I have a very similar layout, I basically had to design this by hand. So it doesn't matter if I do this just by dropping those pictures or if I do this by creating layout, It's up to you What's more convenient to you? Some presentations have, especially templates that you purchased have e.g. 100 different layout. I don t think that you will use all of them. It gets a bit confusing when there are so many layout here, you practically in reality are using far less for a given presentation. So you always need to delete or eliminate the ones that you don't use. And this comes over time with practice and so on. This is it when it comes to layout and advanced concepts that is connected to creating templates within PowerPoint. The last couple of lectures, we're specifically about creating PowerPoint templates. Powerpoint templates are created using a combination of selecting a font, selecting a color, maybe adding effects, and creating layouts, then saving everything into one file. And you should have a package called a template available. But in my opinion, having a PowerPoint file with specific options is just as good and there are advantages and disadvantages to using templates. Thank you very much for listening and see you in the next lecture. 49. Thank You!: I'm a bit stressed to reach this point. This is it. Thank you very much for participating in this course, for reaching the end. Big congratulations from me. I'll try to add new lectures over time. But the majority of what I wanted to teach you was this. I hope you have learned a lot about PowerPoint, but if you'd like to expand your knowledge and continue learning with me, I'll tell you how you could possibly do so if you'd like to, you could use my masterclasses to expand your general knowledge about slide design in PowerPoint, you could use my animation classes if you would like to create videos with PowerPoint animations and give motion to things you design. If you want a more professional and clean approach, I would suggest my PowerPoint business course that teaches how to create more formal presentations and how to use chart and display data. It's completely up to you. I sincerely hope that you start to enjoy PowerPoint now a little bit more, and I'll see you in different lectures. See you there.