Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 is the newest Microsoft Excel version to be introduced. Here are 5 basic functions you must know about the latest software program from Excel and practice in order to get started:
- OneDrive
One of the most useful functions of Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 is that it allows for real time editing with multiple users regardless of location. But to make that possible, users are required to share files with their colleagues through OneDrive, an online storage space by Microsoft, designed to help users save and store presentations. Users can create a free Microsoft Account and sign in to Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 through the sign in option in the upper right. When saving, sharing and backing up, they will then be able to use OneDrive as an option.
- Themes
Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 grants more users control when it comes to design, including the modifying of themes. From colour, to customising fonts, theme effects, background styles, graphics, slide layouts and more! Users can even save their own customised themes as a template! All customisation for themes can be found under the ‘Design tab’ and ‘Variants’ group.
- Transition
Transitions in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 has been revised and further improved to allow users more capabilities when it comes to transitioning slides. Users can make use of the preview section to visualise what each effect looks like in their slides to better make decisions, choose between transition effects based on categories like subtle, dynamic and more, modify and even customise their own transition effects!
- Graphics
The newest version of Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 allows users to customise even the graphics themselves: cropping an image using shapes, adding borders to images, colour adjustments, subtle image corrections, adding styles, adding artistic effects, compressing image quality and more! With more control, users would have the convenience of producing good quality images for their presentations without having to use editing softwares!
- Privacy
Even without knowing it, users may have unwittingly shared personal information with others when sharing files. This is because when you save files, your documents retain certain information about the document creator. To help users, Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 has this helpful feature known as Document Inspector that allows users to inspect elements of their presentation and remove sensitive information.
These are the 5 basics of Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 that users should master. Not only are they essential to project and presentation creation, they also allow users to come up with newer and better presentation quality with minimal fuss. These basic features help achieve maximum functionality and design with minimal effort so why not try them out and master them today?
