Microsoft 77-729 PowerPoint 2016 - Core Presentation Design and Delivery Skills
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Microsoft 77-729 PowerPoint 2016 - Core Presentation Design and Delivery Skills

Practice Labs
Updated Nov 12, 2024

What you'll learn

  • Start PowerPoint and take a look around its interface
  • Use the PowerPoint interface to interact with the program and its presentations
  • Navigate among the elements of the PowerPoint window
  • Close the program
  • Create a blank presentation and a presentation from a template
  • Create and modify slide content by navigating the presentation
  • Add slides
  • Format slide objects as hyperlinks
  • Insert shapes and images
  • Save and close a presentation
  • Modify the slide master
  • Use the slide master to change a layout
  • Add and modify a footer
  • Apply layout to a slide
  • Change a master title style and format some text on individual slides
  • Apply background to a slide
  • Modify the background applied
  • Draw a shape
  • Modify a shape
  • Layer shapes on your slides
  • Insert images
  • Resize and crop images
  • Add effects and styles to images
  • Create a chart
  • Change the type and layout of the chart
  • Apply styles to the chart
  • Import a chart directly from Excel
  • Create a table
  • Apply styles and formatting to the table
  • Import an Excel spreadsheet as a table object
  • Apply transition effects to all the slides in your presentation
  • Apply transition effects to one or more selected slides
  • Import a document outline and a PDF file
  • Format text as WordArt
  • Preview your presentation before printing
  • Work with Print Options
  • Adjust Print settings to print handouts, notes, and individual slides
  • Add the Quick Print tool to the Quick Access toolbar
  • Print your presentation
  • Convert bulleted lists to SmartArt, including a process diagram
  • Create an organization chart, add shapes to it, change its layout, and format it
  • Create new slide masters and apply a slide-master layout to selected slides
  • Create and work with animations in a presentation
  • Set animation and transition timings by setting effect and timing options
  • Insert and work with audio and video in your presentations
  • Explore PowerPoint's proofing options, then check the presentation for spelling and grammar errors
  • Use comments to review a document
  • Compare two versions of a presentation, review the changes, then save the resulting merged version
  • Save a presentation as a PDF file, and use it to create Word handouts
  • Add and work with slide notes pages
  • Explore Presenter view and PowerPoint's Rehearsal mode
  • Create and run a custom slide show
  • Make a presentation read-only, then password-protect it
  • Run compatibility and accessibility check on a presentation, then apply media compression to it
Course Description

The PowerPoint 2016: Core Presentation Design and Delivery Skills Practice Lab will provide you with the necessary platform to gain hands-on skills in PowerPoint 2016 fundamentals.



By completing the lab tasks, you will improve your practical skills in creating and managing presentations, inserting and formatting various features (including text, shapes, images, tables, charts, SmartArt and media), applying transitions and animations, and managing multiple presentations. These same tasks will help you understand the objectives required by the 77-729 certification exam.