You Can Trust Our Reviews
Deeper Dive: Our Top Tested Picks
Buying Guide: 9 Essential Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Tips
Contents
- 9 Essential Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Tips
- Broadcast a Slideshow From PowerPoint
- Insert Screen Clips in PowerPoint (or Word)
- Recover Unsaved Documents
- PowerPoint Animation Painter
- Customize the PowerPoint Status Bar
- Create a Video of a Presentation
- Selection and Visibility Controls in PowerPoint
- Check the Accessibility of a Presentation
- Use PowerPoint's Accessibility Report
The last time you saw someone give a dynamite PowerPoint presentation, filled with video clips and text that was actually large enough to read at a distance, you probably made a mental note to teach yourself some new Microsoft Office 2010 skills. Perhaps you made the same mental note the last time PowerPoint crashed before you had a chance to save your document. It's time to tick "Learn to do more with PowerPoint" off your to-do list.
The nine tips and tricks in this article, which read best consecutively, will teach you how to broadcast a slideshow, insert screenshots without ever opening Photoshop, recover unsaved documents, turn your presentation into a video, and more. We'll also explore some accessibility features—which help ensure that your presentation is accessible to visually-impaired people, an important consideration if you're going to make your presentation publicly available—as well as a neat little feature in Microsoft 2010 PowerPoint, called the Animation Painter.
What we don't cover here are the very basics of PowerPoint, so if you're still learning how to build a slideshow, write notes on slides, apply a template, or any other basic feature of the software, see "PowerPoint Problems,", which covers basic troubleshooting, or "Add Actions to PowerPoint" for a beginner's introduction to some features not covered here in the Microsoft Office 2010 version.
For more tips and tricks in other Microsoft Office 2010 programs, such as Word, Excel, Outlook, and Access, see the list of links at the end of this article. You can either read them in the slideshow below or page through them in the Table of Content.—Next: Broadcast a Slideshow From PowerPoint >
For more Office tips, see:
• 5 Essential Microsoft Office 2010 Tips for Everyone
• 15 Essential Microsoft Word 2010 Tips for Beginners
• 10 Essential Microsoft Excel 2010 Tips for Beginners
• 14 Essential Microsoft Outlook 2010 Tips for Beginners
• 14 Essential Microsoft Excel 2010 Tips for Intermediate Users
• 10 Essential Microsoft Word 2010 Tips for Advanced Users
• 5 Essential Microsoft Excel 2010 Tips for Advanced Users
• 8 Essential Microsoft Outlook 2010 Tips for Intermediate and Advanced Users
• 9 Essential Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Tips
• 10 Essential Microsoft Access 2010 Tips for Beginners