Formatting text boxes and managing graphic content in PowerPoint 2016

Overview

Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 provides a wide range of tools for adding text and graphics to slides, and for arranging and editing content to produce professional, creative, high-detail presentations. In this course, you’ll learn how to insert, position, resize, and format text and graphics in PowerPoint slides. You’ll also learn how to arrange and manipulate objects on a slide, and how to apply a range of artistic effects and styles to both text and graphics. This course is one of a series of Skillsoft learning pathways covering Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 for beginners.

Objectives

• Insert text boxes and apply fillers for them in PowerPoint 2016

• Change the internal edges of text boxes in PowerPoint 2016

• Change the edges of text boxes in PowerPoint 2016

• Align text boxes and their contents, wrap text and convert text in columns in PowerPoint 2016

• add shape effects and text boxes in PowerPoint 2016

• specify formats for a text box and set the default format in PowerPoint 2016

• adjust the size of the text box and automatically fit the text in a text box in PowerPoint 2016

• move objects forward or backward in PowerPoint 2016

• align, group, and rotate objects in PowerPoint 2016

• use the Select and View panel to show, hide, or manipulate objects in PowerPoint 2016

• resize objects and reset objects to their original state in PowerPoint 2016

• appl setting predefined artistic effects, image effects, and image formatting in PowerPoint 2016

• applying styles and adding and changing the edges of objects in PowerPoint 2016