Slide shows

  • Launching a slide show
  • Switching to a browser and back again
  • Jumping to another slide
  • Keyboard and mouse

Survival

  • Getting out of funny modes
  • The ribbon
  • ESCAPE
  • Left clicking and right clicking
  • Dragging vs resizing
  • Finding the mouse
  • Cut, copy and paste
  • Undo and redo
  • Backups

Pictures

  • Adding photos
  • Adding pictures from the web
  • Resizing, moving and cropping
  • Compressing photos

Text

  • Adding text
  • Fonts
  • Making text flow
  • Highlighting

Staying organized

  • Duplicating or hiding slides
  • Rearranging slides
  • Moving slides to another deck
  • Adding page numbers
  • The slide sorter
  • Author’s notes
  • Sections

Shapes and colours

  • Rotating, copying and aligning shapes
  • Solid, semi-transparent and gradient colours
  • Outlines
  • Splines
  • Resizing while keeping the same shape

Sharing slides

  • Exporting as a PDF
  • Converting to Google slides

Animations

  • Making things appear and disappear

Transitions

  • Morphing from one slide to another