Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Level 1.6: Adding Tables to Your Presentation

When you need to display data in a PowerPoint presentation you should do it in a way so it is clear, easy to understand and so your audience is not forced to sit through endless slides of figure-heavy content. Fortunately, using tables is an effective way of displaying data. You can easily add tables to your PowerPoint presentation by following the steps in this online training.

Tables are containers for numerical data and other information organized into columns and rows of individual cells. Creating and formatting your table is simple with PowerPoint 2016. This course shows you how to format and modify tables; you can format the look and structure of a table. This includes changing the size of your table, as well as adding borders, shading and other effects. The training video guides you through a step-by-step process for these and other formatting changes you may wish to make.

Tables can range from just a few cells containing a small amount of data to something much more complex and massive. The materials presented here show you how to create and manipulate tables in PowerPoint 2016, thereby making more effective presentations.

   This course is in the Video On Demand format, to read about Video On Demand features click here.

PowerPoint 2016 users

• 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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