MO-300 case studies
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MO-300: Microsoft PowerPoint (Office 2019) is the Microsoft exam that satisfies the exam requirement for the Microsoft Office Specialist: PowerPoint Associate (Office 2019) certification. Microsoft positions it around the practical ability to create and manage presentations, insert and format shapes and slides, create slide content, apply transitions and animations, and manage multiple presentations. The MO-300 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,560 words.
1Compressing a 1.4 GB Field Deck Under a 30 MB LMS Limit
A regional sales team maintains a 96-slide PowerPoint deck distributed to 400 field reps through an LMS with a hard 30 MB upload limit; the current .pptx is 1.4 GB. It contains a 42-minute MP4 product demo, 18 full-resolution PNG screenshots, two charts linked to an Excel workbook on a shared drive, and three licensed TrueType brand fonts installed on the designer's PC but not on rep laptops.
768 words, about 4 min2Section Numbering, Two Masters, and Custom Shows in a Reused Training Deck
A 62-slide training deck is delivered three ways: a 45-minute live class, a 20-minute executive briefing, and a self-paced handout. Fourteen slides are hidden for the executive version.
703 words, about 4 min3Accessibility and Image Quality in a Public-Sector Funding Proposal
A public-sector team is finalizing a 30-slide funding proposal that will be posted as a PDF and presented live. One slide contains a five-step process drawn as 12 grouped shapes with gradient fills and drop shadows, pasted as a single group; it has no alt text.
691 words, about 3 min4Stale Charts, Block SmartArt, and Playback Failures in a Launch Deck
A pharmaceutical launch deck contains six charts linked to one Excel workbook, a SmartArt patient-journey diagram with five stages, a rotating 3D molecule of the compound, and a 90-second MP4 of the manufacturing line. The workbook was rolled to Q4, but the deck still shows Q3; a colleague "updated" one chart by typing into the sheet that opened from Edit Data, and now her numbers differ from the master workbook.
703 words, about 4 min5Morph That Fades, an 18-Second Build, and a Teams Audience
A product launch deck has seven consecutive slides that zoom from a full product photo to a detail shot; the designer expects Morph to interpolate between them. In testing, slides 2–7 simply cross-fade, and on slide 4 the previous headline slides in from the left.
695 words, about 3 min