Exam 77-729: PowerPoint 2016 – Core Presentation Design and Delivery Skills

Create and manage presentations

• Create a presentation
  • Create a new presentation, create a presentation based on a template, import Word document outlines
• Insert and format slides
  • Insert specific slide layouts; duplicate existing slides; hide and unhide slides; delete slides; apply a different slide layout; modify individual slide backgrounds; insert slide headers, footers, and page numbers
• Modify slides, handouts, and notes
  • Change the slide master theme or background, modify slide master content, create a slide layout, modify a slide layout, modify the handout master, modify the notes master
• Order and group slides
  • Create sections, modify slide order, rename sections
• Change presentation options and views
  • Change slide size, change views of a presentation, set file properties
• Configure a presentation for print
  • Print all or part of a presentation; print notes pages; print handouts; print in color, grayscale, or black and white
• Configure and present a slide show
  • Create custom slide shows, configure slide show options, rehearse slide show timing, present a slide show by using Presenter View

Insert and format text, shapes, and images

• Insert and format text
  • Insert text on a slide, apply formatting and styles to text, apply WordArt styles to text, format text in multiple columns, create bulleted and numbered lists, insert hyperlinks
• Insert and format shapes and text boxes
  • Insert or replace shapes, insert text boxes, resize shapes and text boxes, format shapes and text boxes, apply styles to shapes and text boxes
• Insert and format images
  • Insert images, resize and crop images, apply styles and effects
• Order and group objects
  • Order objects, align objects, group objects, display alignment tools

Insert tables, charts, SmartArt, and media

• Insert and format tables
  • Create a table, insert and delete table rows and columns, apply table styles, import a table
• Insert and format charts
  • Create a chart, import a chart, change the Chart Type, add a legend to a chart, change the chart style of a chart
• Insert and format SmartArt graphics
  • Create SmartArt graphics, convert lists to SmartArt graphics, add shapes to SmartArt graphics, reorder shapes in SmartArt graphics, change the color of SmartArt graphics
• Insert and manage media
  • Insert audio and video clips, configure media playback options, adjust media window size, set the video start and stop time, set media timing options

Apply transitions and animations

• Apply slide transitions
  • Insert slide transitions, set transition effect options
• Animate slide content
  • Apply animations to objects, apply animations to text, set animation effect options, set animation paths
• Set timing for transitions and animations
  • Set transition effect duration, configure transition start and finish options, reorder animations on a slide

Manage multiple presentations

• Merge content from multiple presentations
  • Insert slides from another presentation, compare two presentations, insert comments, review comments
• Finalize presentations
  • Protect a presentation, inspect a presentation, proof a presentation, preserve presentation content, export presentations to other formats