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PowerPoint Tips & Tricks

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In this step-by-step tutorial, learn the top 15 best Microsoft PowerPoint tips and tricks. 👋 Resources called out in this video: - Follow along with this presentation: https://1drv.ms/p/s!AmxrofZZlZ-whKINojWHMZqFQk82qw?e=CE77fY ⌚ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:21 Morph and enhanced morph 1:21 Enhanced morph 3:18 Perfect shapes and lines 4:28 Countdown timer 5:41 Screen recording 6:40 Merge shapes 7:58 Stock images 8:41 Remove photo background 9:34 Align objects 10:18 Selection pane and layers 11:52 Eye dropper with Snip & Sketch 13:06 Copy objects with CTRL 13:38 Narrate slides with voice and video 14:33 Presentation mode shortcut keys with F1 15:15 Design ideas 16:18 Advanced cropping 17:12 Wrap up 📃 Watch related playlists - PowerPoint: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlKpQrBME6xIKFhSxvoRzy5mrewPe1PcM 🚩 Connect with me on social: - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinstratvert/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevstrat - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kevin-Stratvert-101912218227818 🔔 Subscribe to my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/kevlers?sub_confirmation=1 🎬 Want to watch again? Navigate back to my YouTube channel quickly http://www.kevinstratvert.com #PowerPoint

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'Microsoft powerpoint allows screen recording with shortcut keys, such as windows logo shift and q.', 'duration': 39.487, 'max_score': 332.411, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/zcITARGg3CQ/pics/zcITARGg3CQ332411.jpg'}, {'end': 424.731, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 377.221, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 382.725, 'text': "Here's a nice picture of Times Square and now I'm going to press Windows logo shift and Q and that'll stop the recording.", 'start': 377.221, 'duration': 5.504}, {'end': 387.508, 'text': 'You now see that my screen recording is inserted into Microsoft PowerPoint.', 'start': 383.265, 'duration': 4.243}, {'end': 391.113, 'text': "Now I'm not just limited to using this screen recording within PowerPoint.", 'start': 387.868, 'duration': 3.245}, {'end': 397.122, 'text': 'I could right click on it and I could also save this screen recording as an MP4 if I want to use this elsewhere.', 'start': 391.213, 'duration': 5.909}, {'end': 400.548, 'text': 'So pretty awesome functionality built directly into PowerPoint.', 'start': 397.443, 'duration': 3.105}, {'end': 405.224, 'text': 'next, i want to show you how you can merge shapes on this slide.', 'start': 400.942, 'duration': 4.282}, {'end': 406.504, 'text': 'i have two different shapes.', 'start': 405.224, 'duration': 1.28}, {'end': 408.225, 'text': 'i have both a circle and a square.', 'start': 406.504, 'duration': 1.721}, {'end': 414.467, 'text': "i'm going to pull my square and i'm going to position this over my circle and i'm going to put it right about there.", 'start': 408.225, 'duration': 6.242}, {'end': 421.55, 'text': "next, i'm going to select both of these shapes and because i have shape selected, i see the shape format option on my ribbon.", 'start': 414.467, 'duration': 7.083}, {'end': 424.731, 'text': "let's click into that Now over on the left hand side.", 'start': 421.55, 'duration': 3.181}], 'summary': 'Powerpoint allows screen recording insertion and mp4 export. also demonstrates shape merging.', 'duration': 47.51, 'max_score': 377.221, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/zcITARGg3CQ/pics/zcITARGg3CQ377221.jpg'}, {'end': 463.158, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 433.437, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 436.419, 'text': 'For instance, I can do a union where I bring them together into one shape.', 'start': 433.437, 'duration': 2.982}, {'end': 440.582, 'text': 'I could also do a combine where it leaves out the intersecting portion of it.', 'start': 436.799, 'duration': 3.783}, {'end': 443.424, 'text': 'I could also do a fragment where it creates three separate shapes.', 'start': 440.642, 'duration': 2.782}, {'end': 451.249, 'text': 'Here I could do an intersect where it just keeps the intersecting portion and the last one is to subtract the second shape from the first one.', 'start': 444.204, 'duration': 7.045}, {'end': 453.971, 'text': "I'm gonna go with fragment to see how this works.", 'start': 451.65, 'duration': 2.321}, {'end': 456.854, 'text': "Now that I've done fragment, I have three different shapes.", 'start': 454.352, 'duration': 2.502}, {'end': 460.036, 'text': "I'm gonna remove this portion for now and I'm gonna delete that.", 'start': 457.294, 'duration': 2.742}, {'end': 463.158, 'text': "Next, I'm gonna pull out this portion of my circle.", 'start': 460.496, 'duration': 2.662}], 'summary': 'Demonstration of shape operations: union, combine, fragment, intersect, subtract.', 'duration': 29.721, 'max_score': 433.437, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/zcITARGg3CQ/pics/zcITARGg3CQ433437.jpg'}], 'start': 263.402, 'title': 'Powerpoint presentation tips', 'summary': 'Covers the insertion of a countdown timer, screen recording process, and shape merging in powerpoint. it highlights customization options and shape manipulation features.', 'chapters': [{'end': 340.997, 'start': 263.402, 'title': 'Powerpoint countdown timer tip', 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571.319, 'duration': 3.362}, {'end': 580.345, 'text': 'Tip number eight, I want to show how you can align objects on your slide like a pro.', 'start': 574.981, 'duration': 5.364}, {'end': 585.268, 'text': "To align these objects, first off, let's highlight all of these squares.", 'start': 580.805, 'duration': 4.463}, {'end': 589.871, 'text': "Once we have them highlighted, let's go up to the top ribbon and click on shape format.", 'start': 585.768, 'duration': 4.103}, {'end': 593.633, 'text': 'Over on the right hand side we have the option to align.', 'start': 590.391, 'duration': 3.242}, {'end': 598.035, 'text': "I'm going to click on align and first off I want to top align all of these shapes.", 'start': 594.013, 'duration': 4.022}, {'end': 599.275, 'text': "Let's click on that first.", 'start': 598.215, 'duration': 1.06}, {'end': 602.417, 'text': 'Now I see all of the items are top aligned.', 'start': 600.036, 'duration': 2.381}, {'end': 608.32, 'text': "I'm going to click on align 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items between layers.', 'start': 635.236, 'duration': 2.002}, {'end': 643.082, 'text': 'you could simply right click on them and you could send it all the way to the back, or you could simply send it one layer back.', 'start': 637.238, 'duration': 5.844}], 'summary': 'Tips for using selection pane to manage layers effectively.', 'duration': 23.977, 'max_score': 619.105, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/zcITARGg3CQ/pics/zcITARGg3CQ619105.jpg'}, {'end': 738.249, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 708.073, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 712.556, 'text': 'I could very easily do that by dragging and dropping items within the selection pane.', 'start': 708.073, 'duration': 4.483}, {'end': 718.819, 'text': 'Tip number 10, I want to show you how you can use the eyedropper, together with snip and sketch,', 'start': 712.856, 'duration': 5.963}, {'end': 722.221, 'text': 'to be able to copy any color that appears on your desktop.', 'start': 718.819, 'duration': 3.402}, {'end': 729.385, 'text': "I have a rectangle in the middle of my slide and it says PowerPoint, but this isn't the PowerPoint brand color.", 'start': 722.781, 'duration': 6.604}, {'end': 732.947, 'text': 'I see the brand color up here on the top app bar.', 'start': 729.765, 'duration': 3.182}, {'end': 738.249, 'text': "How do I get this color into the rectangle? Well, first we're going to use the Snip and Sketch tool.", 'start': 733.267, 'duration': 4.982}], 'summary': 'Tip: use eyedropper and snip and sketch to copy desktop colors.', 'duration': 30.176, 'max_score': 708.073, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/zcITARGg3CQ/pics/zcITARGg3CQ708073.jpg'}, {'end': 792.121, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 747.014, 'weight': 0.775, 'content': [{'end': 751.977, 'text': "This launches the Snip and Sketch tool and I'm going to go up here and select a rectangular snip.", 'start': 747.014, 'duration': 4.963}, {'end': 755.439, 'text': "Now I'm going to draw a rectangle around the top app color.", 'start': 752.417, 'duration': 3.022}, {'end': 758.54, 'text': 'I see now that this color is on my clipboard.', 'start': 755.979, 'duration': 2.561}, {'end': 764.083, 'text': "Next, I'm going to click into PowerPoint and I'm going to press Control V to paste this onto my slide.", 'start': 758.8, 'duration': 5.283}, {'end': 766.964, 'text': 'This pastes the app color onto my slide.', 'start': 764.303, 'duration': 2.661}, {'end': 769.666, 'text': 'Next, I want to take this color and get it into my rectangle.', 'start': 767.184, 'duration': 2.482}, {'end': 773.808, 'text': "I'm going to click on the rectangle and go to the top bar to shape format.", 'start': 770.066, 'duration': 3.742}, {'end': 781.453, 'text': "Within shape format, I'm going to click on shape fill, go down to the eyedropper tool and I'm going to select the color from this rectangle.", 'start': 774.648, 'duration': 6.805}, {'end': 786.977, 'text': 'This now applies the same exact color from the top bar to this rectangle.', 'start': 782.093, 'duration': 4.884}, {'end': 792.121, 'text': 'Tip number 11, I want to show you how you can copy objects using the control key.', 'start': 787.297, 'duration': 4.824}], 'summary': 'Using snip and sketch tool to copy and paste app color onto a powerpoint slide and apply it to a rectangle, along with a tip 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1.782}], 'summary': 'You can narrate powerpoint slides with voice and video by using the record feature.', 'duration': 22.496, 'max_score': 819.125, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/zcITARGg3CQ/pics/zcITARGg3CQ819125.jpg'}, {'end': 901.256, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 859.954, 'weight': 0.768, 'content': [{'end': 866.736, 'text': "Next, I'm gonna click on the X in the top right hand corner and now this inserts my video and my annotation on the slide.", 'start': 859.954, 'duration': 6.782}, {'end': 872.138, 'text': "If I jump into presentation mode, you'll see the slide come up with my annotations and the video will play.", 'start': 866.816, 'duration': 5.322}, {'end': 880.965, 'text': "Number 13, when you're presenting in Microsoft PowerPoint, there are all sorts of shortcut keys that you could use in presentation mode.", 'start': 874.082, 'duration': 6.883}, {'end': 883.946, 'text': "First off, let's jump into presentation mode.", 'start': 881.385, 'duration': 2.561}, {'end': 890.829, 'text': "If you press the F1 key, this will show you all of the different shortcuts that you can use when you're presenting in PowerPoint.", 'start': 884.326, 'duration': 6.503}, {'end': 893.371, 'text': 'There are quite a few different shortcut keys here.', 'start': 891.209, 'duration': 2.162}, {'end': 896.973, 'text': 'You could take a look through these and see which ones will be the most valuable to you.', 'start': 893.511, 'duration': 3.462}, {'end': 901.256, 'text': "For instance, a few of the things I could do if I press B, it'll change the slide to black.", 'start': 897.413, 'duration': 3.843}], 'summary': 'Microsoft powerpoint offers various shortcut keys for presentation mode, including pressing f1 to access all shortcuts.', 'duration': 41.302, 'max_score': 859.954, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/zcITARGg3CQ/pics/zcITARGg3CQ859954.jpg'}, {'end': 910.202, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 881.385, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 883.946, 'text': "First off, let's jump into presentation mode.", 'start': 881.385, 'duration': 2.561}, {'end': 890.829, 'text': "If you press the F1 key, this will show you all of the different shortcuts that you can use when you're presenting in PowerPoint.", 'start': 884.326, 'duration': 6.503}, {'end': 893.371, 'text': 'There are quite a few different shortcut keys here.', 'start': 891.209, 'duration': 2.162}, {'end': 896.973, 'text': 'You could take a look through these and see which ones will be the most valuable to you.', 'start': 893.511, 'duration': 3.462}, {'end': 901.256, 'text': "For instance, a few of the things I could do if I press B, it'll change the slide to black.", 'start': 897.413, 'duration': 3.843}, {'end': 903.578, 'text': 'I could press W to change the slide to white.', 'start': 901.596, 'duration': 1.982}, {'end': 908.341, 'text': "I could also press control P and that'll bring up a pen tool and I can then annotate the 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'start': 915.606, 'duration': 8.05}, {'end': 932.686, 'text': 'To use design ideas, click on home on the top ribbon and then over on the far right hand side, you see an option for designer or design ideas.', 'start': 924.056, 'duration': 8.63}, {'end': 934.168, 'text': "Let's click on this.", 'start': 933.067, 'duration': 1.101}, {'end': 939.31, 'text': 'this now shows me a whole bunch of design ideas on the right hand side.', 'start': 935.029, 'duration': 4.281}, {'end': 942.531, 'text': "these are constantly evolving and they're constantly getting better.", 'start': 939.31, 'duration': 3.221}, {'end': 946.632, 'text': "now i'm going to click on this first one, and let's see how this works here.", 'start': 942.531, 'duration': 4.101}, {'end': 950.573, 'text': 'it formats my slide in a much more aesthetically pleasing way.', 'start': 946.632, 'duration': 3.941}, {'end': 951.253, 'text': 'now, one of the things.', 'start': 950.573, 'duration': 0.68}, {'end': 957.035, 'text': "that's really neat too, and i don't know if you notice this, but here the text says who will read this, and here you see a picture of a book.", 'start': 951.253, 'duration': 5.782}, {'end': 959.657, 'text': "i don't think anyone will.", 'start': 957.475, 'duration': 2.182}, {'end': 964.421, 'text': 'the word think is in there and i see a little cloud that typically goes along with thinking.', 'start': 959.657, 'duration': 4.764}, {'end': 967.483, 'text': 'and then please stop reading and you see a stack of books.', 'start': 964.421, 'duration': 3.062}, {'end': 971.166, 'text': 'so all of these icons are chosen based on what the text is.', 'start': 967.483, 'duration': 3.683}, {'end': 971.907, 'text': "so it's.", 'start': 971.166, 'duration': 0.741}, {'end': 973.268, 'text': "it's in a very smart way.", 'start': 971.907, 'duration': 1.361}, {'end': 978.653, 'text': 'identifying what type of content should show up design ideas helps you create better slides.', 'start': 973.268, 'duration': 5.385}, {'end': 984.215, 'text': 'Tip number 15, I want to show you some advanced ways that you can crop a photo.', 'start': 979.153, 'duration': 5.062}], 'summary': 'Tips for enhancing presentations: use design ideas to improve slide aesthetics and crop photos effectively.', 'duration': 75.474, 'max_score': 908.741, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/zcITARGg3CQ/pics/zcITARGg3CQ908741.jpg'}, {'end': 1055.664, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1024.073, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 1026.294, 'text': "I'm going to go in and I'm going to crop this to a circle.", 'start': 1024.073, 'duration': 2.221}, {'end': 1032.678, 'text': "Now you see some pretty creative cropping where I've cropped my son to be in this perfect circle here.", 'start': 1026.934, 'duration': 5.744}, {'end': 1039.104, 'text': 'All right, that was a quick look at 15 of my favorite tips and tricks in Microsoft PowerPoint.', 'start': 1033.115, 'duration': 5.989}, {'end': 1040.566, 'text': 'In the comments down below.', 'start': 1039.223, 'duration': 1.343}, {'end': 1044.792, 'text': 'let me know if there are others that you use that you would recommend that others take a look at.', 'start': 1040.566, 'duration': 4.226}, {'end': 1048.558, 'text': 'or also let me know if any of these tips and tricks are ones that you personally use.', 'start': 1044.792, 'duration': 3.766}, {'end': 1051.541, 'text': 'If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up.', 'start': 1049.159, 'duration': 2.382}, {'end': 1055.664, 'text': 'If you want to see more videos like this in the future, make sure to hit that subscribe button.', 'start': 1051.921, 'duration': 3.743}], 'summary': 'Microsoft powerpoint tips and tricks demonstrated, with a request for feedback and engagement.', 'duration': 31.591, 'max_score': 1024.073, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/zcITARGg3CQ/pics/zcITARGg3CQ1024073.jpg'}], 'start': 466.142, 'title': 'Powerpoint tips & tricks', 'summary': 'Covers a range of powerpoint tips, including stock image insertion, background removal, aligning objects, working with layers, using the eyedropper with snip and sketch, copying objects with the control key, narrating slides with voice and video, using shortcut keys in presentation mode, applying design ideas to enhance slide aesthetics, and advanced photo cropping techniques.', 'chapters': [{'end': 618.645, 'start': 466.142, 'title': 'Powerpoint tips & tricks', 'summary': 'Discusses powerpoint tips including inserting stock images, removing background from photos, and aligning objects, highlighting features like stock image insertion and background removal, and step-by-step guidance for aligning objects.', 'duration': 152.503, 'highlights': ['You can insert a variety of stock images into your presentation by going to the top ribbon, clicking on insert, then pictures, and selecting stock images, providing a wide range of options for visual enhancement.', 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implementation and customization options, such as setting the timer duration and choosing a background.', 'The demonstration of merging shapes on a slide is detailed, with the explanation of various shape manipulation options such as union, combine, fragment, intersect, and subtract, providing a comprehensive understanding of shape merging techniques.', 'You can insert a variety of stock images into your presentation by going to the top ribbon, clicking on insert, then pictures, and selecting stock images, providing a wide range of options for visual enhancement.', "You can remove the background from a photo using the 'remove background' option, with the ability to manually mark areas for removal, and then save the changes, resulting in precise editing of images.", "To align objects on a slide, you can use the 'shape format' option to align and distribute shapes, ensuring uniform positioning and spacing for a professional look.", 'The chapter covers using design ideas in PowerPoint to 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