PowerPoint 2021 Intermediate-PowerPoint 2021 Intermediate

PowerPoint 2021 Intermediate - Quick Reference Guide

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This Quick Reference Guide for Microsoft PowerPoint 2021 (Intermediate) summarizes how to enhance presentations with transitions, animations, formatting, media, and master layouts.<br /><br />It explains how to apply and modify slide transitions from the Transitions tab, including choosing a transition, using Effect Options, and understanding common transition styles such as Fade, Push, Split, Flash, and Morph-like movement between slides. For animations, it covers applying effects to text or objects from the Animations tab, adding multiple animations to one object, adjusting effects via Effect Options, copying animations with Animation Painter, and managing timing and order in the Animation Pane.<br /><br />The guide also reviews key formatting and theme tools: changing fonts, font size, and color from the Home tab; editing slide backgrounds via Format Background; applying and customizing themes (colors, fonts, effects) from the Design tab; changing slide size; and creating new presentations from templates.<br /><br />For visuals, it outlines inserting pictures through content placeholders or the Insert tab, resizing and cropping images, inserting screenshots, removing image backgrounds, applying corrections/color/artistic effects, resetting picture formatting, and using built-in picture styles.<br /><br />It includes instructions for adding graphics and content elements such as text boxes, shapes (including Merge Shapes and shape styles), WordArt, icons, drawings, SmartArt, charts, and tables.<br /><br />For self-running presentations, it covers inserting and configuring video and audio, adding action buttons, recording narration and slide timings, and setting up slide show playback options.<br /><br />Finally, it introduces Slide Master tools: opening and closing Slide Master view, editing or creating custom layouts, adding footers, changing master backgrounds, applying themes, inserting/renaming/deleting slide masters and layouts, and editing Handout Master and Notes Master.

Keywords

PowerPoint 2021 intermediate

slide transitions

slide animations

Animation Pane

Animation Painter

themes and templates

Format Background

Slide Master layouts

insert pictures and crop

audio video narration