Microsoft Powerpoint Checklist

The following checklist includes all the Powerpoint skills you need to understand and be able to perform for IDIS 110 (RIT). Print a copy of it out to use as a guide and self-study sheet.

• Create a presentation using templates
  • Use the outline tab to start your presentation
  • Promote and demote items
  • Describe the parts of the main screen
  • Change the view of your presentation
  • Use Slide Sorter view
  • Use Slide Show view
    
• Save a presentation
  • Save as a PowerPoint Presentation
  • Save as a PowerPoint Show
  • Use Pack and Go
  • Unpack Pack and Go files
    
• Formatting Slides
  • Add a placeholder
  • Resize a placeholder
  • Move a placeholder
  • Add a background
  • Insert an image
  • Create a slide master
    
• Custom Animation
  • Access and locate items on the Custom Animation Toolbar
  • Animate an image
  • Animate text
  • Use timing settings
    
• Multimedia, including:
  • Insert AutoShapes
  • Change the order of objects
  • Group and ungroup objects
  • Add sound files
    
    

Last updated July 15, 2004
Contact: rit@calvin.edu