episode 98: Microsoft Office Secrets of PowerPoint

Microsoft Office Secrets of PowerPoint

Microsoft Office Secrets! This episode is Part 1 of a new series. Troy, Sandy and Nolan each give 10 hidden or unknown PowerPoint slide design tools and features, each native to PowerPoint; no add-ins or special coding needed for them!

Troy’s 10 Hidden PowerPoint Formatting Tools

Change Shape.
Text soft-return with Shift + Return
Preview slide animation with Star icon
Bring Super-script and Sub-script back to PowerPoint by adding these PowerPoint tools to the QAT
Text box internal margins (can be customized on Master layouts or individual text boxes on slides)
Add text to any shape (AKA: do not stack a text box on top of a shape!)
Zoom in/out of a slide with CTRL + Mouse wheel
Duplicate anything with CTRL + Drag
Make any logo solid white with Picture format > picture corrections > brightness 100%
Image transparency

Nolan’s 10 Hidden PowerPoint Formatting Tools

Blurred image as slide background
Crop to fit and Crop to ratio
Convert SVGs and icons into PowerPoint shapes
Chart templates
Embed an Excel table (like we can embed an Excel chart)
Quickly change bar chart colors
Text box multi-columns
Copy & paste an object styling with CTRL+Shift+C, then CTRL+Shift+V
Duplicate an object with preset spacing apart
Add an instant slide Zoom (drag slide thumbnail from left film strip and drop on any slide)

Sandy’s 10 Hidden PowerPoint Formatting Tools

Preset Master Slide images
Use Designer
Character spacing; by word or individual letters
Zero width space
The QAT
Format painter tool
Eyedropper (color picker) tool
PowerPoint triggers for interactivity
Text box auto expanding left line
PowerPoint slides, Attendee Notes, and Presenter Training Notes – all in 1 document!

Thanks for joining us!