PowerPoint Tutorials

PowerPoint is a popular and useful tool for doing presentations. This introduction will give you an overview of setting up your slides, adding slide transitions, adding some animation and choosing themes. We will also see how the slide show looks and how to move through the presentation. Gary Schwartz from http://www.jargonfreehelp.com shows us how.

If you want a logo or some text to appear on all of your PowerPoint slides and don't want to have to do each one individually then you need the slide master. In this short video tutorial from by Gary Schwartz from http://www.jargonfreehelp.com you will see how to do it. This video, like many on my channel, has been created using Camtasia https://techsmith.z6rjha.net/zaqjq0 For more tutorials see my website http://www.jargonfreehelp.com I am an Amazon an Techsmith affiliate and might earn when purchasing from any of these links. However, this does keep my free tutorials to you going.

Adding a screenshot into a PowerPoint presentation is easy, if you have the Windows version there is a feature for doing this. If you are using a Mac you need to grab a screenshot and insert it in like you would add a picture. The Windows version easily allows you to grab the whole Window of a program that is open or just capture part of it so you are just getting a screen clip. Here Gary Schwartz from http://www.jargonfreehelp.com shows us how. This video, like many on my channel, has been created using Camtasia https://techsmith.z6rjha.net/zaqjq0 For more tutorials see my website http://www.jargonfreehelp.com I am an Amazon an Techsmith affiliate and might earn when purchasing from any of these links. However, this does keep my free tutorials to you going.

If you are doing conference or seminar it can be useful o put all the PowerPoint Presentations together for a seamless presentation. Gary Schwartz from http://www.jargonfreehelp.com shows us how.

When presenting your slides sometimes you need to highlight important items. PowerPoint has a pen and highlighter tool that lets you draw on the screen. There is also a laser pointer, handy when you are recording the presentation and you do not have one to hand. In this episode we show you how. Check out my other useful tips: http://www.jargonfreehelp.com Other useful PowerPoint tutorials: Jumping to a slide in a presentation: https://youtu.be/eEAva2VxHrk Zooming in on a slide in your slideshow: https://youtu.be/5NU1JWuXgJ0

When you are doing a PowerPoint presentation you might want to zoom in on an area of a slide, it could be an image or chart and want to take a closer look. If you are using the Windows version of PowerPoint then Gary Schwartz from http://www.jargonfreehelp.com shows us how. Here's are some other useful PowerPoint tips: Jumping to a slide during a PowerPoint presentation: https://youtu.be/eEAva2VxHrk Using the pen and laser pointer: https://youtu.be/nzpK-cNPHyc

Need to go got a particular slide in a presentation then here is a good way to do it without having to stop and restart the slideshow. Gary Schwartz from http://www.jargonfreehelp.com shows us how. Here are some other useful PowerPoint tips: Zooming in on a PowerPoint Slide during a slideshow: https://youtu.be/5NU1JWuXgJ0 Using the Pen and Laser Pointer: https://youtu.be/nzpK-cNPHyc

It can be really useful to demonstrate a website or some other software in a PowerPoint presentation by recording what is happening on the screen and then embedding that into the presentation. The Windows versions of PowerPoint allow you to do this and is really easy to do. Here Gary Schwartz from http://www.jargonfreehelp.com shows us how.

It can be far more convenient to run a YouTube video in a PowerPoint presentation than having to switch to a browser in the middle of your presentation to play a video. It also save you having to search for it and looks neater. This works on the Windows versions of PowerPoint and none of the Mac versions including PowerPoint 2016.