PowerPoint 2019 For Dummies

Doug Lowe is a master at demystifying technology. The 50+ technology books he's written include more than 30 For Dummies books, including Networking All-in-One For Dummies. Doug has been managing networks at publishing companies and nonprofit organizations for more than 20 years and is presently IT director for a civil engineering firm.

Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 2 Beyond the Book 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: Getting Started with Powerpoint 2019 5 Chapter 1: Welcome to PowerPoint 2019 7 What in Sam Hill Is PowerPoint? 8 Introducing PowerPoint Presentations 9 Presentation files 10 Whats in a slide? 11 Starting PowerPoint 13 Navigating the PowerPoint Interface 14 Unraveling the Ribbon 17 Telling PowerPoint What to Do 18 The View from Here Is Great 18 Taking the Backstage Tour 19 Creating a New Presentation 20 Editing text 20 Adding a new slide 22 Moving from slide to slide 23 Choosing a design 24 Displaying Your Presentation 25 Saving Your Work 26 Opening a Presentation 27 Closing a Presentation 29 Getting Help 29 Exiting PowerPoint 31 Chapter 2: Editing Slides 33 Moving from Slide to Slide 34 Working with Objects 34 Selecting objects 35 Resizing or moving an object 36 Editing a Text Object 38 Selecting Text 39 Using Cut, Copy, and Paste 40 Duplicating an Object 41 Using the Clipboard Task Pane 41 Oops! I Didnt Mean It (The Marvelous Undo Command) 42 Deleting a Slide 43 Duplicating a Slide 44 Finding Text 44 Replacing Text 46 Rearranging Your Slides in Slide Sorter View 47 Chapter 3: Working in Outline View 49 Calling Up the Outline 49 Selecting and Editing an Entire Slide 51 Selecting and Editing One Paragraph 51 Promoting and Demoting Paragraphs 51 Adding a New Paragraph 52 Adding a New Slide 53 Moving Text Up and Down 54 Collapsing and Expanding the Outline 54 Chapter 4: Proofing Your Presentations 55 Checking Spelling as You Go 55 Spell Checking After-the-Fact 57 Using the Thesaurus 59 Capitalizing Correctly 60 Using the AutoCorrect Feature 61 Chapter 5: Dont Forget Your Notes! 65 Understanding Notes 66 Adding Notes to a Slide 67 Adding an Extra Notes Page for a Slide 68 Adding a New Slide from Notes Page View 69 Printing Notes Pages 69 Displaying Notes on a Separate Monitor 70 Chapter 6: Show Time! 71 The Quick Way to Print 72 Printing from Backstage View 72 Printing more than one copy 73 Changing printers 73 Printing part of a document 73 Using Print Preview 74 Setting Up a Slide Show 75 Starting a Slide Show 76 Working in Presenter View 77 Keyboard and Mouse Tricks for Your Slide Show 79 Using Presentation Tools 80 Using the Laser Pointer feature 80 Scribbling on your slides 81 Rehearsing Your Slide Timings 82 Using Custom Shows 83 Creating a custom show 83 Showing a custom show 84 Hiding slides 85 Showing Your Presentation Online 85 Part 2: Creating Great-Looking Slides 89 Chapter 7: All about Fonts and Text Formatting 91 Changing the Look of Your Text 92 Two ways to apply formatting 94 Changing the size of characters 94 Choosing text fonts 95 Adding color to your text 95 Adding shadows 96 Big Picture Text Formatting 96 Biting the bulleted list 97 Creating numbered lists 99 Setting tabs and indents 99 Spacing out 101 Lining things up 101 Making columns 102 Creating Fancy Text with WordArt 102 Chapter 8: Designing Your Slides 107 Looking at the Design Tab 107 Working with Themes 108 Applying themes 109 Using theme colors 110 Using theme fonts 113 Applying theme effects 114 Changing the Slide Size 115 Applying Background Styles 116 Using a gradient fill 116 Using other background effects 118 Using the Design Ideas Feature to Design Your Slides 119 Chapter 9: Animating Your Slides 121 Using Slide Transitions 121 Using the Morph Transition 124 Using the Animations Tab 126 Using Advanced Animation 128 Understanding advanced animation 128 Using the Animation pane 130 Adding an effect 131 More about animating text 134 Timing your animations 135 Making Text Jiggle 138 Using the Animation Painter 139 Chapter 10: Masters of the Universe Meet the Tem