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Animation Pane
-a great place to edit the timeline of animations on a slide or reorder an animation. It is located in the Advanced Animationsubgroup.
Character Spacing
-you can change the spacing by going to Home Tab>Font subgroup>AV dropdown and make your selections.
Insert Table
2 ways to insert a table: 1-Select the slide, select Insert tab, Tables subgroup>table dropdown arrow, select Insert table or Draw table OR 2- Insert Table from Table Icon- From the Title & Content Layout Option: Select slide with Title and Content layout, Select Table icon, In the Insert Table box enter desired Number of Columns, enter desired Number of Rows, select OK.
Chart Style
On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click Chart. In the Insert Chart dialog box, click the arrows to scroll through the chart types. Select the type of chart that you want and then click OK.
Online Sources
Use online sources for Media & Audio. If you do research to gather information for presentations, you'll want to check out a new feature, Smart Lookup. It lets you do online research from right within PowerPoint while you're working on a presentation, so there's no need to fire up your browser, search the web, and then copy the information to your presentation. To use Smart Lookup in PowerPoint or any other Microsoft 365/Office 365 app, you might first need to enable Microsoft's intelligent services feature, which collects your search terms and some content from your presentations and other documents.
Action Buttons -
built-in shapes you can add to a presentation and set to link to another slide, play a sound, or perform a similar action.
Artistic Effects
change the appearance of an image by attempting to mimic art media like paint or pencil, add texture (e.g., cement), or create other changes like blurring. Select the picture. Select Picture Format>Adjust Subgroup,> Artistic Effects dropdown menu to select your choices.
Contrast -
created by having different object shapes, object sizes, font types, font sizes, alignment, etc. Theprinciple of contrast is dependent upon the surrounding elements being noticeably different from the focal point. It is located in the Picture tools Contextual Tab.
Section Zoom
creates a link to a section. It allows you to jump to a section and then return to Section Zoom.
Section
designed to be used with large presentations that contain a large number of slides thatcan easily be grouped into logical groupings.
Linear
going from one slide to the next.
Transform
lets users of Word on the web turn a text-based document into a PowerPoint presentation with adesign theme. Users need to open a Word document to convert the file into a PP presentation. After selecting Transform, Word users need to select a design theme for the presentation and then review the outcome in PowerPoint for the web. The new PowerPoint slides will be stored in the OneDrive folder of the user.
Non-Linear
moving through a presentation by going from one slide to another in any order. Zoom allows you to move forward in a non-linear manner.
3D Model
preset models available in PP 2019 located in the SmartArt Tools tab, Design tab & click on the More dropdown arrow of the SmartArt Styles subgroup to see the 3-D preset designs and select the style of your choice. You can rotate and view 3D images from all angles in the Illustrations subgroup.
Shape
provide a graphical illustration of an idea to better help the audience understand your content.Insert Tab>Illustrations Subgroup>Shape drop down menu.
Hyperlink
provides the viewer with quick access to webpages and files and can also take you other places in your presentation such as with a non-linear PP presentation.
Case
the Case button (Aa) is located in the Home Tab> in the Font subgroup select the Aa or More buttonin the Font subgroup to open up a dialog box with various options.
Transparency
the act of taking a premade picture and altering it so it seems less bright, almost see-through.
Effect Options
there are around 50 Effect Options which vary according to the transition chosen for the slide or slides.
Text Effect
this icon can create a visual impact with Shadow, Fill, and Outline properties. Access by selectingHome Tab>Drawing Subgroup>and select Shape Fill, Shape Outline, or Shape Effects.
Loop -
used to automatically & continuously play audio or move through the slides in a presentation.
Merge
used to blend cells together. In the Layout Contextual Tab, there are tools to merge & split cells.
Data
used to create a visual image using a chart to illustrate a relationship or comparison among data by using rows & columns of data to plot a chart.
Audio Tools
used to record and insert in a PP presentation. Located in the Insert Tab, Media Subgroup, you can insert a audio clip from the selections.
Video Tools
used to record and insert in a PP presentation. Located in the Insert Tab, Media Subgroup, you can insert a video from the selections.
Screenshot
useful for capturing snapshots of programs or windows that you have open on your computer. InsertTab>Images Subgroup dropdown >Screen Shot from drop down menu
Caption
you can add closed captions or subtitles to videos and audio files in your presentations. Adding closed captions makes your presentation accessible to a larger audience, including people with hearing disabilities and those who speak languages other than the one in your video.
Trim Video
you can trim away unwanted content at the beginning or end of the clip, or both. You can only trim videos that you've inserted from your computer. This feature isn't available for videos inserted from the web.
Reuse Slides
Importing previous content into a new presentation and it uses the Keep Source Formatting option to keep the design consistent as well.
Table Style
In Table Design Tab>Table Styles subgroup, there are various predesigned table styles to choose and apply to slides.
. Alignment
In the Layout Contextual Tab, there are tools that allow you to choose where the data is positioned in the cell.
Animated Animals
Navigate to Insert Tab > 3D Models > From Online Sources to peruse Office's library of 3D models. In the dialogue box, click the All Animated Models category. Insert any that catches your eye. There arenovel characters, education-focused examples, realistic animals and many moreto pick from.
Zoom Link
Select Insert Tab>Link dropdown arrow>Zoom>Slide Zoom to move quickly from one slide to another.
Slide Sorter
Slide Sorter view gives you a view of your slides in thumbnail form. This view makes it easy for you to sort and organize the sequence of your slides as you prepare to print your slides. You can get to Slide Sorter view from the task bar at the bottom of the slide window, or from the View tab on the ribbon.
Legend
The legend of a graph reflects the data displayed in the graph's Y-axis, also called the graph series. This is the data that comes from the columns of the corresponding grid report, and usually represents metrics. A graphlegend generally appears as a box to the right or left of your graph.
Animation Effects
There are 4 types of animation: Entrance Effects, Emphasis Effects, Exit Effects, and Motion Path Effects.
Reuse Slides
You can add one or more slides to your presentation from another, without having to open the other file. (By default, a copied slide inherits the design of the slide you're inserting it after in the destination presentation. However, you can choose to keep the formatting of the slide you're copying instead.)
WordArt
a gallery of styles that you can add to your PP slides to create decorative effects. Select Insert Tab>Text subgroup, and then select the WordArt dropdown arrow.
Zoom
a new feature in Power Point that allows a presenter to navigate through a presentation in a non-linear way (jumping from 1 slide to another). It is found in the Insert tab>Links subgroup, the Zoom icon dropdown arrow offers 3 choices: Summary Zoom, Section Zoom, Slide Zoom
Bevel
a preset boarder choice. To access it, select the picture, right click, select Format,
Corrections
adjusting the brightness, contrast, or sharpness of a picture you have inserted into your PP presentations. Once you put the image in your slide, the picture tools contextual tab will open and allows you to apply one or more effects.
Motion Path
allows you to create a track that the text or objects travel. There are 60 options divided into three categories: Basic, Lines and Curves, and Special.
SmartArt
allows you to diagram content & graphics on slides and is one of PowerPoint's most powerful graphic features. It also enables you to reconfigure a bulleted list into a diagram with connecting shapes.
Photo Album
anew feature that allows you to create a presentation from your favorite photographs.
Duplicate Slide
click on New Slide dropdown arrow, right click on the slide, select Duplicate slide.
Slide Zoom
creates a link to a particular slide and allows you to move freely to a slide in any order.
. Slide from Outline -
if you have an outline of your content created in another file format such as an .rtf & want to add this content to your presentation, select the Slides from Outline option. Then navigate to the desired file & insert the content.
Background
images or design elements that are placed on your slides behind whatever text, charts, images, or other objects you are presenting. In short, it is the presentation background that you use to build all of your slides.
Text Fill
it is the interior of the letters in WordArt text or text on a PowerPoint slide. Select the text>ShapeFormat Tab>WordArt Styles Subgroup.
Group Images
lets you rotate, flip, move, or resize all shapes or objects at the same time as though theywere a single shape or object. You can also change the attributes of all of the shapes in a group at one time, such as adding a shape fill or effect, or an effect to a picture.
. Summary Zoom
summarizes the presentation in one slide.
. Footers
the bottom margin of each page and is useful for including material that you want to appear on every page of a document such as your name, the title of the document, or page numbers.
. Chart Type
the design of your chart. It can easily be changed by selecting the chart you want to change and navigate to the Design Tab, and in the Change Chart Type subgroup, select another chart style option.
Headers
the top margin of each page and is useful for including material that you want to appear on every page of a document such as your name, the title of the document, or page numbers.
Transitions
the way you move from one slide to the next. Click on the Transitions Tab in the Ribbon to access the various features that Power Point offers. There are almost 40 types of transitions.
Chart Element
to modify a Chart Element: Select Chart, Select design, in the chart Layout subgroup, select the Add Chart Element dropdown arrow, select Data Table, select With Legend Keys.
Rows& Columns
used in a table to easily present data. In the Layout Contextual Tab, there are tools to add or deleteRows & Columns.
Animation
you can animate text or objects such as clipart, images, and shapes in a variety of ways. Use of animations can increase the impact of the information on the slide/slides.