PowerPoint 2016 – 2.4.3 – Fade Video Sound
When a video is trimmed, you’ll find that the sound cuts in very sharply. Fading in and out the sound, will take care of that problem.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.4.2 – Trim a Video
If a video is too long, it can be trimmed down here, directly in PowerPoint. This video brings you through those steps.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.4.1 – Insert a Video
Learn how to connect to a video that is stored on your computer.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.3.6 – Compress a Picture
Compressing pictures reduces the size of the overall presentation. See the difference it makes with our four slides.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.3.5 – Remove the Background from a Picture
PowerPoint provides an excellent background removal tool for our Pictures. This video shows you how to use it.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.3.4 – Crop to a Shape
Did you know that you can Crop a picture to a Shape? Well, you can and this video will show you how!
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.3.3 – Crop a Picture
Sometimes you just need to cut parts away unwanted pieces of a picture. This is done by Cropping – which we’ll look at in this video.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.3.2 – Use Picture Effects
Look at some of the amazing affects provided by PowerPoint, to work with Pictures.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.3.1 – Use a Picture as a Slide Background
See how to make a picture the Background of one slide, or all slides, in a Presentation. Also see how to manipulate the Transparency of the picture – so that the text is not obscured by that Background.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.13 – Example 3 – Create a Diagram
Watch this third example of a real-life diagram being created, using some of the techniques that have been shown throughout this lesson.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.12 – Example 2 – Create a Diagram
Watch this second example of a real-life diagram being created, using some of the techniques that have been shown throughout this lesson.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.11 – Example 1 – Create a Diagram
Watch this first example of a real-life diagram being created, using some of the techniques that have been shown throughout this lesson.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.10 – Join Shapes Together
Two or more Shapes can be joined together, to create a completely new Shape – see the steps you need to take, to achieve this.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.9 – Change or Edit a Shape
If you have the wrong Shape on the screen, you can substitute it for another one, without having to delete the original first. If you want to ‘adjust’ a Shape to create a completely new Shape, you can do that too!
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.8 – Rotate and Flip Shapes
Learn the different options that are available for Rotating an object – or even for Flipping it over!
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.7 – Align Shapes
Watch this video to discover the different ways you can quickly line up your Shapes.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.6 – Group and Ungroup Shapes
Individual objects can be Grouped together to make a single object. This video shows you how to Group 4 objects together – then how to Ungroup them.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.5 – Layer and Order Shapes
If you put out multiple Shapes onto a slide, you might not be aware that they ‘layer’ in the order they are brought out. This video shows you how you can re-order those layers, if you need to position them on top of each other.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.4 – Duplicate Shapes Repeatedly
This video shows two ways to create a copy of a Shape, but the second way includes a tip to quickly repeat that second Shape and its distance from the original.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.3 – Trick to Draw Shapes From the Centre
Sometimes you need the centre of a Shape to be perfectly positioned at a certain point on a slide. The easiest way to do this is to draw the Shape out from its centre point.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.2 – Trick to Create a Circle From an Oval
If you want to create a perfect circle using Shapes, then this video will show you how to do just that.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.2.1 – Trick to Create a Square From a Rectangle
If you want to create a perfect square using Shapes, then this video will show you how to do just that.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.1.6 – Selection Tip
Sometimes when you select bulleted text, it all goes horribly wrong! This is a tip to show you how to avoid those problems.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.1.5 – Move Text Away From a Bullet
If you don’t want to shrink the size of the bullets, then you need to move the text away from those bullets. This video shows you how this is done.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.1.4 – Resize a Bullet
When you change the type of bullet you use, you’ll find that the new bullets are quite large. This video will show you how to resize those bullets.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.1.3 – Change the Bullet Colour
Do bullets really need to be black? No, they don’t! Let’s see how we can change the bullet colour.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.1.2 – Apply Your Own Bullet
Has your company purchased bullets from an Internet site? If so, this video shows you how to apply them.
PowerPoint 2016 – 2.1.1 – Change the Bullet Type
The standard black bullet is not the only bullet in town! Learn where to find alternative bullet types.
Word 2016 – 3.7.6 – Move a Macro to the Normal Template
This video brings us into the VBA Editor to move the Macro code to the Normal Template. Don’t worry if you’re not used to the code window, all will be explained!
Word 2016 – 3.7.5 – Create a Macro Button
This video shows you how to attach our Macro to a button that we’re placing onto the Quick Access Toolbar.
Word 2016 – 3.7.4 – Open a Document Containing a Macro
When you open a document that contains a Macro, you will get a Security warning. This video shows that warning and explains what it means.
Word 2016 – 3.7.3 – Save a Macro in a Word Document
We cannot save a Macro into a .docx document. This video shows the message we receive when we try to do that, then we’ll see the steps we need to take, to keep our Macro.
Word 2016 – 3.7.2 – Create a Macro
Learn the steps that you need to take to create a Macro in Word.
Word 2016 – 3.7.1 – What is a Macro?
This video explains what a Macro is and shows you the Macro that we are going to create, in this set of videos.
Word 2016 – 3.6.4 – Edit an Index
This video shows you how to add new entries to the Index as well as showing you how to change the look of the Index.
Word 2016 – 3.6.3 – AutoMark an Index Using a Concordance File
This video brings you through the steps used to auto-mark an Index, then create the Index.
Word 2016 – 3.6.2 – Insert an Index
This video brings you through the necessary steps to insert an Index at the back of the document.
Word 2016 – 3.6.1 – Manually Mark an Index
In this video we’re going to see how you manually mark the text that you want to be shown, in the Index, at the back of your document.
Word 2016 – 3.5.7 – Edit the Numbered TOC
We want to make changes to the formatting of the Table of Contents and this video will show you the correct way to do that, through the TOC feature.
Word 2016 – 3.5.6 – Create a TOC
In this video we’ll see how to create the Table of Contents and point it away from the Heading 1, 2, 3 Styles to our own Styles.
Word 2016 – 3.5.5 – Apply Section Break and Page Numbering
This video goes through creating the Page and Page Numbering that we want to use in our document. We want the first page to house our Table of Contents and we want the second page to start it’s numbering at 1, not 2.
Word 2016 – 3.5.4 – Apply the Multi-level List
We’re now going to apply our created Multi-level list to the document. Most of this video has been sped up to get through the changes quickly, but you can pause the video to attach the same Styles to the same text.
Word 2016 – 3.5.3 – Create Multilevel List and Attach the Styles
This video shows you how to attach the Styles that we created in the previous video, to the Multilevel List Style.
Word 2016 – 3.5.2 – Create Styles for Numbered Text
The first step in this series is to create the four Styles needed and name them as we wish.
Word 2016 – 3.5.1 – View the Document Being Created
In this set of videos, we are going to create our own named Styles, then attach those Styles to a Multilevel List, which we’ll apply to the document. We’re then going to create a Table of Contents using our own Styles, not the defaults. This video shows you what the finished result will look like.
Word 2016 – 3.4.6 – Create a Basic Numbered TOC
This video will show you how to change from using a basic Heading Style to a Numbered Heading Style, then updating the TOC to reflect the Numbered Style.
Word 2016 – 3.4.5 – Create a Table of Tables
A Table of Tables references the Tables within your document. To do this you need to use Captions with your Tables.
Word 2016 – 3.4.4 – Create a Table of Figures
A Table of Figures references your SmartArt or your Pictures within the document. To use this feature, you must first have used the Captions feature.
Download the supporting documents we use in our videos: