Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Level 1.6: Adding Tables to Your Presentation

Have you ever sat through a presentation on budgetary information, sales figures, or other financial data, and the presentations is full of endless slides of text and numbers? If you need to create a presentation with this kind of information, you should do it in a way where the information is clear and easy to understand. Using tables is an effective way of displaying large volumes of numerical content, and creating and formatting tables is simple with PowerPoint 2016.

This course starts by demonstrating how easy it is to create a table within a PowerPoint 2016 presentation. Once you insert your table, you can format both its look and structure. You can resize it, add borders and shading effects, and other numerous changes. This online training guides you through the step-by-step process for these and other common formatting modifications. Finally, the course shows you how to insert tables from other applications.

Tables are containers for numerical data and other information organized into columns and rows of individual cells. Learn how to create and manipulate tables in PowerPoint 2016 and your presentations will become much more effective.

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Anyone using PowerPoint 2016

• Introduction
• Create a Table
• Format a Table
• Insert a Table from Other Office Applications

• Create a table in PowerPoint.
  • Identify keyboard keys to use to navigate in a table.
  • Identify the ways to add a cell to a table.
• Format a table in PowerPoint.
  • Recall the tabs that appear in the Table Tools contextual tab.
  • Identify the box needed to be checked to proportion a table.
• Insert a table from other Office applications.
  • Distinguish between embedded and linked objects.
  • Recall how to link a file.

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