6 Time-Saving Shortcuts Every PowerPoint User Should Know
Discover useful PowerPoint shortcuts that will save you hours when putting together presentations. Create professional looking slides fast and impress your audience!
Featuring Chris Hadley, Ph.D., wikiHow's PowerPoint Expert
Format
Every lesson is delivered to your inbox with (1) an easy-to-follow instructional video (2) a summary of key tips and takeaways for Mac and PC and (3) a quick assignment to help you apply what you just learned.
Duration
Take the whole course in just 6 days (or spread it out however works for you!)
Time
Each lesson takes 10-15 minutes to read and watch.
What you will learn
- 6+ ways to customize beautiful PowerPoint backgrounds
- How to preserve styles across your presentation using slide duplicates
- Why “Master Slides” will save you hours of formatting
- Easy ways to include images on Mac and PC presentations
- How to share helpful handouts of your presentation with your audience
- How to polish your presentation with slide numbers, headers, and footers
Why should you take this course?
- To save time creating PowerPoints. Let’s face it — when it comes to PowerPoint, you probably spend 20% of your time on content and 80% on formatting. Learn shortcuts that can save you hours.
- You want to design more professional presentations. Small design changes and consistent formatting can make your slides look clearer and more elegant. No one will know you spent less time designing them.
- To impress your team with your PowerPoint skills. People respect technological prowess. Just wait until you see your co-workers; faces when you share your newfound skills and shortcuts with them.
Course Overview
6 Lessons
Customizing Presentation Backgrounds
Create beautiful and professional backgrounds using a variety of simple techniques.
Preserving Layout and Formatting with Slide Duplicates
Duplicate slide formats to save time and create clear, consistent slide formatting throughout your presentation.
Incorporating Effective Images
Discover easy ways to incorporate images into your slides on both Mac and PC.
Simplifying Presentations with Master Slides
Learn how master slides change the game when it comes to formatting (and can completely eliminate Powerpoint induced headaches).
Sharing Presentations with Handouts
Distribute readable, note-friendly handouts with your presentations to help make your content stick with your audience.
Adding Final Touches
Learn how to finalize your slides, cross the t’s, and dot the i’s on your best presentations yet.
Meet the Expert
Chris Hadley, PhD
PhD in Cognitive Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Chris Hadley earned his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from UCLA in 2006. Chris' research has been published in numerous scientific journals. During his time at UCLA, he was awarded a Kirschstein-NRSA Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health to fund his doctoral research. Chris has worked on improving content quality at wikiHow since 2007. His role on the content team focuses on quality control and content innovation. He works with our editors to ensure accuracy on all wikiHow articles, as well as advising on content strategy.
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How much experience do I need for this course?
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What are others saying?
Shawn
This course reminded me of some PowerPoint skills I had forgotten about, and taught me many new things I had been missing. The first time I learned PowerPoint was for Windows 98. Now I'm disabled and I see a job opening that I'm able to get, so I need to get a heads up on Word too!
David
This course really took me step by step to put a great PowerPoint together. Never shot over my head. Thanks!
Diane
The Master Slide trick is totally transformative! Have never put together a PowerPoint so quickly and easily. Really glad I took this course.
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