14 DAY TRIAL // The PowerPoint 2010 Skills Builder offers a free collection of training content that users can easily take advantage of.
The promise from Microsoft is that they’ll be able to take their presentations to the next level, provided that their starting off with a basic skill set, of course.
The free learning resources come to teach customers running PowerPoint 2010 on the best ways to add photos and videos to their slides, as well as broadcasting the content across the web.
“We put together a series of free, short, training videos to help you. Lesson 1 deals almost exclusively with adding and manipulating photos in PowerPoint,” revealed Microsoft’s Erik Jensen.
“You'll learn the basics--how to insert, crop, and align them; then you'll move on to the fancier stuff--how to add styles and effects, and my favorite--how to reduce the overall size (as in megabytes) of your photographs so you can sidestep the inbox bouncer when you send off your presentation.”
In Lesson 2, users will find out how to add videos to their presentations, either by inserting the content in their slides or linking to it.
The next lesson is designed to teach customers how to work with charts and diagrams in their presentations, while the last example of training content deals with broadcasting presentations.
“To start, go to the PowerPoint Skills Builder page, then click the first video under Lesson 1. You won't need to invest a lot of time learning because every video is under seven minutes (with a couple under three minutes),” Jensen notes.
“After watching them, leave a comment on this post (if you're so inclined) to let us know if we helped you. Your feedback is hugely important to us--we always listen to it. And, while you're at it, take a look at the recently re-designed PowerPoint home page on Office.com.”
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