IT skills and training

=Unique function 

=Unique is a function used in Excel to find only Unique values in a range or array. 

Slide Master 

'Slide Masters' are the templates or layouts, which are shown in in your 'new slide' button: 

Accessing Staffnet

On University computers the Staff intranet is the home page for both Chrome and Edge or it can be accessed from the Start menu. 

Accessing the SharePoint site

SharePoint sites exist in a number of different ways and therefore accessing them for the purposes of syncing with your local PC are done differently according to their type:

If you have a shared document in Teams, Office 365 groups, in SharePoint or in Onedrive, you can edit it at the same time as other people when it is opened online in a browser.  This enables you to work collaboratively on the same document, either in real time or at separate times, without the need to save different copies of it.  If you edit in real time with others you can see edits as they happen.

If you click on a document or create a new document, it will open in your browser, you can start editing it 

Animation Pane

You can change the order objects animate without needing to remove and reapply animations to other objects by using the Animation Pane. 

How to Add Notes to your Presentation (Presenter View)

While giving a PowerPoint Presentation you can make use of something called Presenter view, this mode allows the projector* to display your presentation full screen without your notes showing to the audience. The second monitor* will show a preview of the current slide, the next slide and your notes: 

How to Add Animations to your objects

Every object in PowerPoint can have an entrance, emphasis or exit animation applied to it. These will either enter your object onto the slide, exit it, or simply highlight it depending on which type you select. Multiple animations can be applied and the order these play out can be modified as  well.

Adding an audio file to your presentation

There are two ways to add audio to a presentation: 

1. Adding Audio already on your PC (saved)

2. Record Audio (record live)

To add a clip from your computer

Have the audio file saved to the computer locally as an MP3 file - (if you have an obscure file type then email ITskills@chi.ac.uk who may be able to help convert the file to MP3)

Once you have the file as an MP3 on your computer, open PowerPoint and navigate to the slide you wish the audio to appear on.

How to Embed a YouTube Video In PowerPoint

This page will show you how to embed YouTube video in your PowerPoint Presentation.