- Sometimes your presentation needs more theming or a basic pattern or color fill is just too bland. Let's take these Section Headers that we created. We have a few in the beginning of every section. These are the ones that serve as a visual slide for the audience to know when a new section of our presentation is coming. Let's add a little more interest to that. In fact, let's add it to the Layout template, so that whenever we create a new section header in the future, it will have that, also. I'm going to to select View from the ribbon tab.
I'll choose Slide Master. Now, I'm going to find the Section Header, Slide Master. Here it is. The first thing we need to do is find our picture that we're going to crop to a shape. I'll select Insert, choose Picture, Picture from File, and now, I'll browse to my Assets folder. At the heart of this presentation lies the fact that we are a hotel. So I'm going to go back to our roots and I'll choose a picture of our guest rooms.
I'll choose one, I'll click the blue Insert button, and it's going to dump it right on the slide. I'm not going to worry about that right now. I'm going to crop it to a shape. I'll select the photo and now, I'm going to click the down triangle, directly to the right of the Crop button. I'm going to choose Crop to Shape. Here's out list of shapes. Now, we saw this in the last video when we had all our shapes. So I'm going to choose one that I think would make a nice edition to my slides. I'll choose this one because I can put it right in the corner of every slide.
It's cropped it to that shape and now I can resize it. I can click, and drag, and move it around. This is quite large and it might overrun my text, so I'm going to make it even smaller. In fact, if I wanted to, I could bring it right over here to this top border and use the arrows to nudge it. That looks great. Now, let's close out of the Master View by clicking Close Master and we'll see what we end up with. Now, I can see all our section headers.
They all look a little more interesting and they reinforce the fact to the audience, that we are, in fact, a hotel.
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Released
8/7/2015- Connecting PowerPoint to OneDrive
- Creating presentations from themes and templates
- Using slide masters
- Changing the layout or theme
- Adding pictures and objects
- Working with bullet points, text boxes, and tables
- Adding shapes, diagrams, and charts
- Incorporating video, audio, and animation
- Adding speaker notes and comments
- Running a slideshow
- Reusing and sharing PowerPoint presentations
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 4s
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1. Navigating PowerPoint
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Exploring the status bar2m 19s
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2. Working with Presentations
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Changing themes2m 48s
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Using slide masters4m 46s
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Adding a header and footer2m 34s
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3. Working with Slides
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Adding and removing slides4m 39s
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Changing the slide layout4m 19s
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Rearranging slides2m 11s
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4. Adding Pictures to Slides
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5. Adding Content to Slides
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Working with bullet points2m 31s
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Using Outline mode2m 10s
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Working with text boxes4m 41s
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Inserting tables from Excel2m 32s
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6. Adding Shapes, Diagrams, and Charts to Slides
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Adding shapes3m 35s
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7. Adding Video, Audio, and Animation to Slides
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Adding slide transitions3m 52s
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8. Preparing the Presentation
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Adding speaker notes1m 7s
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Rehearsing a presentation2m 11s
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Adding and viewing comments2m 16s
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9. Delivering Your Presentation
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Running a slideshow4m 22s
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Using Presenter view3m 5s
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10. Reusing and Sharing Presentations
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Saving a custom theme2m 5s
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Remove comments1m 36s
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Printing a presentation2m 11s
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Creating a custom show2m 32s
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Conclusion
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Next steps21s
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