PowerPoint Mac Intermediate-PowerPoint Mac Intermediate

PowerPoint Mac Intermediate - Course Outline

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This course, <strong>Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Mac Intermediate</strong>, builds on core skills to help learners create more polished, visually engaging presentations. It begins with <strong>formatting and themes</strong>, including applying and customizing themes (colors, fonts, backgrounds), formatting text (font, size, color, effects, case, alignment), working with lists and multi-column text, adding hyperlinks, copying formatting with Format Painter, adjusting slide backgrounds and sizes, and using or creating templates (including custom templates).

The course then focuses on working with <strong>pictures</strong>, covering multiple ways to insert images, add screenshots, remove backgrounds, and perform image adjustments such as corrections, color changes, artistic effects, resetting formatting, and compressing images. Learners also apply picture styles and use cropping tools, including aspect ratio and cropping images into shapes.

Next, it covers <strong>graphics and objects</strong>, including creating and editing text boxes, inserting and modifying shapes, advanced shape editing (edit points and merge shapes), formatting shapes and WordArt, and improving layout with alignment tools, distribution, guides, and keyboard controls. Students also learn to arrange objects (rotate, group/ungroup, layer order). The section includes creating and formatting <strong>SmartArt</strong>, inserting and formatting <strong>charts</strong> (including importing), and inserting, editing, formatting, and importing <strong>tables</strong>.

The course addresses <strong>transitions and animations</strong>, teaching how to apply, modify, remove, and standardize slide transitions, as well as animate text and objects, customize effects (including motion paths), manage timing with the Animation Pane, reorder sequences, set start options, and copy animations with Animation Painter.

It then moves to <strong>Slide Masters</strong>, including editing master layouts, creating custom layouts, managing footers and master graphics/backgrounds, using multiple slide masters, and organizing masters (rename, delete, preserve). It also includes <strong>Handout Master</strong> and <strong>Notes Master</strong> editing and printing.

Finally, learners create <strong>self-run presentations</strong> by inserting and editing video, adding and recording audio, creating action buttons, recording/narrating slide shows, and setting up slide show options.

Keywords

Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Mac

PowerPoint intermediate

themes and templates

text formatting

slide backgrounds and sizes

image editing and compression

shapes and WordArt

SmartArt charts and tables

transitions and animations

Slide Master Handout Notes Master