{"id":1856,"date":"2017-07-20T21:25:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-compapp\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1856"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:50:13","slug":"why-it-matters-microsoft-powerpoint-intermediate-skills","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/chapter\/why-it-matters-microsoft-powerpoint-intermediate-skills\/","title":{"raw":"Why It Matters: Microsoft PowerPoint Intermediate Skills","rendered":"Why It Matters: Microsoft PowerPoint Intermediate Skills"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Why learn to complete intermediate skills in Microsoft PowerPoint?<\/h2>\r\nIn the last module, we focused on some basic functionality in PowerPoint. But this program is capable of a lot more, including incorporating images and videos as well as allowing you to precisely position items.\r\n\r\nBefore we move into the mechanics of each of these, let us consider for a moment the types of information you may wish to convey in a presentation.\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>You want to show a clip from an advertising campaign.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>You want to add information to every slide<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nAll of these questions can be answered with the valuable tools available in PowerPoint.\r\n","rendered":"<h2>Why learn to complete intermediate skills in Microsoft PowerPoint?<\/h2>\n<p>In the last module, we focused on some basic functionality in PowerPoint. But this program is capable of a lot more, including incorporating images and videos as well as allowing you to precisely position items.<\/p>\n<p>Before we move into the mechanics of each of these, let us consider for a moment the types of information you may wish to convey in a presentation.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You want to show a clip from an advertising campaign.<\/li>\n<li>You want to add information to every slide<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>All of these questions can be answered with the valuable tools available in PowerPoint.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1856\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Why It Matters: Microsoft PowerPoint Intermediate Skills. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Shelli Carter. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":20,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Why It Matters: Microsoft PowerPoint Intermediate Skills\",\"author\":\"Shelli Carter\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"fdafc98f-6d54-42a4-bf78-953b7f4f7264","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1856","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1754,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5486,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1856\/revisions\/5486"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1754"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1856\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}