Okay, so let's get started and open up PowerPoint. So we hit the start menu. We select PowerPoint from Microsoft Office area, and part PowerPoint will open. And the first thing we're going to do is open up a blank presentation. So click on blank, blank presentation, and your screen will become something like this. You will have in the middle there. The main slide to the right have design ideas. Now they appear and they completely random and they change each time. So So I'm just going to get rid of those. Okay? Hit close the right hand side there. On the left. We have something called the preview pane. So if I type something into this slide, I'm going to write the title in here. Okay, you'll see, on the left hand side, the word title appears. Let me just expand the preview pane a little bit. So you can see that more easily. The very bottom of the screen. I can expand an area by clicking and dragging upwards. Whoops, click and dragging from the bottom of the screen there, you can see.

An area where it says, click to add notes. Okay. So if you want to have some notes to support your presentation to help prompt use, you're delivering a speech. Then this is where you can write those and there's options to print those out when printing later on, as you'll see later at the top of the screen. We've got the ribbon and this contains all the commands and the tools that we're going to be using when we're building our size, when we constructing our slides. I'm going to start off here just by inserting a couple of shapes. I'm going to grab, I'm going to add a A rectangle here. I'm going to put another one in. Okay, so we're going to be drawing pictures and things and what as you'll see we can do a lot of stuff in PowerPoint by using the mouse as I'm doing now, or by using things like keyboard shortcuts. So, for instance, let's say I wanted to make these two shapes lineup, I could simply press, I can go home.

I can go to a range.

I can go to a line and I can go to a line top. Okay, so that's using the mouse. Another way. I could have done this though is using something called keyboard shortcuts, and I'm going to be teaching loads of these as we as we go through. Okay, I've got, I've got my two shape selected, I'm going to and I'm going to align them at the top using keyboard shortcuts. So the shortcut will be, alt H for home, G4 arranged, and then a, for a line and Tifa top. Okay. So that's that aligns them both at the top. So that why am i showing you that particular short got? I'm only five only picked that one because it's kind of buried yet. It's it is something that's quite useful now. Wouldn't it be great if we could access? That shortcut? Nice and quickly. So what I'm going to show you, next is how to edit and customize the quick access toolbar.

So in the red bar, right at the top of the screen, there is the quick access toolbar. Okay. Now when I press the ALT key to do keyboard shortcuts before you remember, it's the letters identified, each of the menus and submenus. And at the very top above that. You've also got one, two, three, four and five appeared. Okay, so they are the shortcut keys to do those commands. Now, the default shortcuts in the quick access toolbar.

All of the, like, the default icons in the quick access toolbar are autosave save, undo redo, and start presentation from beginning. So these are things that are already got their own unique shortcuts that are pretty easy to remember, most people will learn these and therefore not require a button on the quick access toolbar and in order to perform a particular task. So for instance say is control s, I'm do is control Z. Re do is control. Why for instance. So therefore what we're going to do, we're going to customize the quick access Toolbar to do things that are useful to us. That don't have quick shortcuts like a lining top. For instance. I showed you just in the previous video. So let's imagine that I wanted to add that icon to my quick access toolbar. If I click on arrange align and I go to align top, it's grayed out because I'm going to even selected, but if I right click Matt, then I have the option to add to it to the quick access toolbar and you'll notice when I do that you just select something. You'll now see that that icon has appeared here. I click on it. It's gone right to the top of the slide. Okay.

So that's how you customize like one-off items. You want to add a one-off item. That's a nice quick way to do it. You can also get rid of items by right-clicking on them and selecting remove from quick access toolbar. Okay? That's if you want to do it one at a time. But if you want to do multiple items at the same time, what you can do is right-click on the ribbon and select customize the ribbon. And then on the left hand side under the PowerPoint options. You can go down to where it says quick access. Toolbar, select that.

Then on the right. You've got all the icons that are in your quick access. Toolbar ready. So autosave save Etc. Click on autosave, and we're just going to press remove.

The middle left. Okay. So that's going to get rid of those particular commands. And then what we're going to do is I'm going to add the commands that we think are more helpful to us. So I'm going to start off. I'm going to go to the, I want the Home tab commands, and I want, I'm going to have the Align objects ad.

Bring forward and bring to front add. I also want send backward add and send to back as well. And then what else do I want? I'm going to have group.

And I'm also going to add on group as well. There we go. And then hit. OK. So just watch this area at the top of the left-hand side of the screen as I hit. Okay, they are boom. It's changed everything. So now we want to do that alignment, exercise. Again. I can click on here and I can do a line, top, or alternatively, if I want to align bottom, I can do alt one and I can do Maybe be for a line bottom, that brings it down. So that's how you customize the quick access toolbar.