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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.
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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.