Presentations Glossary

Creating Slides: Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Excel

Typically, the last thing I would want to do is create my presentation outline in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel. In one of my training sessions, I was showing participants how they could create presentation outlines for PowerPoint in Notepad or Microsoft Word, and one of the attendees wanted to know how he could create an outline in Excel! To understand why anyone would want to create an outline in Excel, you probably need to be an Excel junkie. Rather than go and discuss what an Excel junkie means, I’ll show you how an outline can indeed be created in Excel. This technique works on all versions of Excel for Windows and Mac OS X.

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.

Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Microsoft Excel

Tutorial Code: 01 03 05
Previous: 01 03 04 Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Microsoft Word
Next: 01 04 01 Locate Your Version in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: Creating Slides, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials

Fonts: Font Dialog Box in PowerPoint

Fonts are more than just pretty characters, although your choice of fonts can have a profound effect on how readable your text is to the audience. You can format font styles to make your text bold, italicized, underlined, etc. Beyond these basic offerings, PowerPoint Font dialog box offers some advanced format options for the selected text. You can still change the font type, set the font size, color, and other font attributes in this dialog box, and you can also do more.

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Tagged as: 05-02, Fonts, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials

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?

Tutorial Code: 01 03 02
Previous: 01 03 01 Creating New Slides: Three Ways in PowerPoint
Next: 01 03 03 Creating PowerPoint Outlines Using Text Editors

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Tagged as: 01-03, Creating Slides, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials

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

Tutorial Code: 01 03 01
Previous: 01 02 04 Running for the First Time
Next: 01 03 02 What is the Outline?

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Tagged as: 01-03, Creating Slides, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials

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