Microsoft PowerPoint Essentials for Mac

1: Overview
PowerPoint 2016 is the popular application within the Office suite for Mac to create on-screen presentations. This series starts at the very beginning by exploring the PowerPoint environment, how to add slides to a presentation, insert text and images into slides, and create tables and charts. The series continues by enhancing a presentation with design themes, animation, and transitions, then concludes with preparing and delivering a robust presentation. This series is specifically for locally installed PowerPoint 2016 on Mac OS.


3: PowerPoint Basics
Vonne and Aubri introduce basic concepts in PowerPoint for Mac such as launching the application, opening and closing files, and differentiating between save and save as. They also discuss basic window manipulation in the MacOS such as minimize, full screen, resize and arrange windows, and helpful shortcuts.


5: Navigate a Presentation and Views
Aubri and Vonne demonstrate how to navigate a presentation in PowerPoint. They explore the nuances of the slide pane, the navigation pane, and the speaker notes. They also cover how to switch to and exit different views such as normal, outline, slide sorter, and master slides as well as presentation mode.

6: Create a Presentation
In this episode, Vonne and Aubri demonstrate how to create a new presentation and work with slides. They cover the following topics: slide layouts, modify layouts and placeholders, reset slides, add slides, add and modify sections, reorder slides, and delete slides and sections.




10: Format Text: Bullets and Spacing
Vonne and Aubri concentrate on paragraph level formatting. They explore how to format and customize bullets as well as control line and paragraph spacing. They also review indents, tabs, hyphenation, and columns. Vonne also talks about the embed font option in the preference and why it's important.




14: Images: Format, Part 2
Vonne and Aubri continue to format images in this second part of the episode. They cover picture styles, color and other corrections, and artistic effects. They also cover how to remove background, change picture, save as picture, and the all important compress picture command.

15: Shapes: Add and Format
Aubri and Vonne discuss adding and formatting shapes to a PowerPoint presentation. They show how to resize and rotate shapes, format gradient fills, format outlines, and add text to shapes. They also demonstrate how to edit shapes by the yellow dot in certain shapes and the edit points command.



18: Tables: Introduction and Create
Aubri and Vonne introduce tables in PowerPoint. They review basic terminology and show examples of different options for formatting tables. They demonstrate all the different mouse cursors and how to select parts of a table. They then show how to insert tables into slides as well as how to add text to cells.

19: Tables: Format
In this episode, Aubri and Vonne format tables. They cover how to change row height and column width, align text in cells, merge and split cells, and modify cell margins. They also demonstrate how to format cell fills and borders individually and overall with table styles and style options.

20: Charts: Introduction
Vonne and Aubri introduce and review the anatomy of charts. They identify parts of a chart such as data series, category axis, legends, data labels, and data tables. They also show examples of how to format charts with styles as well as formatting individual elements. Finally, they demonstrate how to select chart elements.




24: SmartArt
In this episode, Vonne and Aubri create SmartArt. They explore different layouts, show how to add and modify information in the SmartArt graphic, change layouts, apply styles, and reset graphics to default formatting. They also show how to convert an existing list to a SmartArt graphic.






