Presentations Glossary

Creating Slides: What is the Outline?

Although visuals, multimedia, and other slide objects can play an important role within a presentation, a proper text outline is still the main skeleton on which the body of a presentation can be sustained. Without a cohesive outline, everything else is akin to a movie that has the best photography, great music, talented cast but no story to put it all together. So how do you create a structured outline, and does PowerPoint provide sufficiently robust outlining tools?

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

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What is the Outline?

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Creating Slides: Creating New Slides, Three Ways in PowerPoint

This question has been asked so often: how many ways are there to create new slides. There may be many ways, but broadly speaking all these techniques fall into three separate ways. You can use either one of these ways, or all three!

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

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Creating New Slides: Three Ways in PowerPoint

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Working with QAT and Ribbons: Add and Rename Ribbon Tabs in PowerPoint

The Ribbon that you see within the PowerPoint user interface was designed to make all options easily accessible. To make more options available, you can add more tabs, rename them, and populate them with even more commands.

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Tagged as: 01-06, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials, Working with QAT and Ribbons

Buying and Installing PowerPoint: Microsoft 365 or Office 2021?

Microsoft 365 is a well-known brand for Microsoft now. But you may have also heard about their other different, but still similar product offerings such as Microsoft Office 2021, or other versions for the desktop, for both Windows and Mac. Are desktop versions the same as Microsoft 365? Well, there is no straight yes or no answer! But it does matter because many people can’t understand where the distinctions are. Let’s first find out what’s confusing with all this terminology.

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Microsoft 365 or Office 2021?

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Buying and Installing PowerPoint: Microsoft 365 Subscriptions

Microsoft 365 is Microsoft’s cloud-based subscription offering that lets you run always upgraded and updated Office applications on the desktop, on tablets and smartphones—and also online. This Microsoft 365 product differs from the perpetual versions of Office, and you can find out more in our Microsoft 365 or or Office 2021 article.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

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Microsoft 365 Subscriptions

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