Working with Slides in PowerPoint 2016
During this Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 training tutorial video, we will demonstrate how to add more slides to your PowerPoint presentation. We will talk about some of the slide layouts that are available in PowerPoint 2016, such as title slide, title and content, section header, two content, comparison, title only, blank, content with caption, picture with caption, panoramic picture with caption, and so on.
Okay so we’re in module three, Getting Started, and this is section three where we’re going to talk a little bit about working with slides.
So we had in the previous section created a new presentation and we had one slide because it gave it to us automatically. But now we want to see how to add some additional slides. So let me flip over to that presentation and we’ll just keep going with it.
Okay so we’re back in our presentation and remember we’re on what’s called a title slide. Now you always get a title slide in the beginning and remember that you want to have that because that’s like a cover for the book. It’s the same thing for PowerPoint. It’s introducing your topic.
Now you can have multiple title slides in your presentation if you like. So for example, what if you were going to talk all morning and you had three different topics you were going to talk about? Instead of having three PowerPoint presentations you could have a new title slide at the beginning of your second topic and the same thing with your third. But at least have one at the very beginning.
So we’re going to go ahead and put our text in here and we’re going to say, “Welcome New Students”. Now remember that you don’t have to have a subtitle but we’re going to put one in here. We’re going to say this is an, “Overview of Campus Life”. Okay. When you get ready to put a new slide in you’re going to click up here on New Slide. Now real quick let me just mention that new slides are always the next slide. So if you happen to be clicked on slide ten the new one would be slide eleven.
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Now when you choose a new slide you’re going to have to pick from these different layouts that are available. So we’re on the title slide now but let me just mention some of these others to you. Here’s title and content. This is probably the most common one other than the title slide and we’ll choose that in a moment. But notice I’ve got one for section headers. I’ve got one for two content. And two contents like having two columns basically where you can put something in each side.
And this one here, comparison, is just like the two content but it has a place for a title at the top of each of the columns as well. Here’s one that has just the title. So you could use that if you wanted to draw something or put a clipart picture or something at the bottom. Here’s a blank one. Here’s content with caption. Here’s picture with caption. You’ve got panoramic pictures. You’ve got quotes, title and caption.
Just know as well that some of these at the top are your basic layouts and depending on which theme you choose you may have some additional ones. Like these down here, some of these you won’t see unless you’re in this layout, for example. So we’ll see some of those layouts as we go along. So I’m going to choose title and content.
Now let me go ahead and click and put our title in here. We’re going to say, “Why Choose Us?” Okay. Now if you’ll notice down at the bottom here it says, “Click to add text” and you’ve got a bullet. So this is where you can start a bulleted list. But if you don’t want bullets just go right up here and click this bullet option and that’ll just turn it off. Or if you’d rather have numbers you can do that. But for now we’re going to use our bullets.
So we’re going to say it’s a “Beautiful campus”. Alright notice how when I enter I got the second bullet. We’re going to say, “Experienced professors”. The next one we’re going to say, “Low cost for attendance”. And you can have as many bullets in there as you’d like. Just keep in mind those guidelines we talked about.
Now I want to put another slide in here. We’re going to have another bulleted one so I can show you how the levels work. So I’m going to go back to New Slide and I’m going to choose the same one, title and content. Now this time we’re going to say, “Here’s the benefits of campus life”. So we’re going to say, “Campus Life Benefits”. Alright we’ll say, “New modern co ed dorms. Now here’s what I want to show you. Notice when I hit the Enter key I got a second first level bullet.
The way you’re going to get the next level, and remember you can have five levels down, is you’re going to hit the Tab key. So Enter always keeps you on the same level. Tab will move you to the right or give you a lower level. I’m going to say, “Recently renovated”. Now notice that when I hit the Enter key I stay on the same level. The way I go up to a first level bullet again is Shift-Tab. So Tab goes to the right, Shift-Tab goes to the left.
So we’re going to say, “Best food cooked by top chefs”. Alright. I want to have a second level about this. We’re going to say, “Designed to cultivate your dining experience”. Makes me hungry. Okay. Let’s make a first level bullet again and we’re going to say, “Easy walking distance to parks” and we’re going to say, one more second level. We’re going to say, “No car needed”.
Yay. And we can work with the spacing a little bit later but you see how you get this in. So remember that if you want to go from a first to a second level bullet you’re going to hit the Enter key first and then the Tab key. To go from a second level to a first level you’re going to hit the Enter key first and then Shift-Tab.
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Okay. So I wanted to go over one more quick thing I forgot to mention. When you go to put in a new slide and let’s just say you picked title and content but it could be any of these of these little pictures that you see here. What I want to tell you is what these little pictures represent. So instead of putting bullets here it could be you want to put in a Microsoft Word table.
This one represents a chart. This one represents a SmartArt graphic. So this would be like, for example, an organizational chart. Then you can put in pictures. You can put pictures in from the web or just pictures that are on your computer. And the last one lets you insert a video. So we’re going to be doing all of that as we go through these videos. I just wanted you to know what those little buttons meant.
So what we’re going to do now is we’re going to go ahead and move over to section four and talk about saving this because I’d hate to lost all this work that we just did.
Simon Calder
Chris “Simon” Calder was working as a Project Manager in IT for one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious cultural institutions, LACMA.He taught himself to use Microsoft Project from a giant textbook and hated every moment of it. Online learning was in its infancy then, but he spotted an opportunity and made an online MS Project course - the rest, as they say, is history!
