MO-310 cheat sheet

Slide Size is set from Design > Slide Size: 16:9 widescreen is 13.333 x 7.5 in and 4:3 standard is 10 x 7.5 in.

Changing slide size prompts Maximize (scale content up, may clip) or Ensure Fit (scale down so all content stays on the slide).

Handout Master (View > Handout Master) controls handout orientation and slides per page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 9.

Insert > Header & Footer applies date, slide number, and footer to Slides or to Notes and Handouts; 'Don't show on title slide' suppresses them on slide 1 only.

File > Info > Check for Issues > Inspect Document removes comments, notes, off-slide objects, and personal information from the file.

File > Info > Protect Presentation: Mark as Final sets read-only status; Encrypt with Password requires a password to open the file.

Set Up Slide Show offers Presented by a speaker, Browsed by an individual (window), and Browsed at a kiosk (self-running loop).

Rehearse Timings records time per slide; saving the timings enables automatic advance and can drive a kiosk show.

Review > Compare merges another author's file into the open presentation, and all reviewers' comments appear in the Comments pane.

Ctrl+M inserts a new slide after the current one using the same layout; Ctrl+D duplicates the selected slide including its content and animations.

Home > Layout re-applies a layout; Home > Reset restores placeholders to the master's position, size, and formatting while keeping typed content.

Sections are created by right-clicking between thumbnails > Add Section, and can be collapsed, renamed, moved, or removed in Normal and Slide Sorter views.

Home > New Slide > Reuse Slides imports slides from another file; the 'Keep source formatting' checkbox preserves the original theme.

Hide Slide dims the thumbnail and skips that slide during a show unless it is reached by hyperlink or Go To Slide.

Insert > Zoom > Slide Zoom or Summary Zoom creates clickable navigation links that jump to chosen slides or sections in non-linear order.

In Outline view, pasted text produces one slide per Heading 1, with lower heading levels becoming nested bullet levels.

In Slide Sorter view, Ctrl+click selects non-adjacent slides, Shift+click selects a contiguous range, and dragging moves the whole selection.

Tab increases and Shift+Tab decreases bullet level; indents per level are set on the ruler or in the Paragraph dialog.

Home > Character Spacing offers Very Tight through Very Loose presets, while the Font dialog's Character Spacing tab controls kerning and tracking.

Shape Format > Merge Shapes provides Union, Combine, Fragment, Intersect, and Subtract; Fragment splits overlapping regions into separate shapes.

Picture Format > Crop > Crop to Shape masks an image to a shape outline, while Crop > Aspect Ratio enforces ratios such as 1:1 or 16:9.

Remove Background marks keep and delete areas with Mark Areas to Keep/Remove, then Keep Changes makes the deletion permanent.

Autofit options are Shrink text on overflow (reduces font size) and Resize shape to fit text (enlarges the placeholder instead).

Home > Select > Selection Pane lists every object for renaming, hiding, and reordering; items lower in the list sit further back.

Edit Alt Text supplies screen-reader descriptions; Mark as decorative removes the object from the accessibility reading order.

Format Painter copies formatting (Ctrl+Shift+C then Ctrl+Shift+V); double-click the brush to apply it to multiple objects until Escape.

Insert > Table or the Insert Table dialog sets rows and columns; Table Design offers header row, banded rows, first column emphasis, and total row.

Each chart's data lives in an embedded Excel workbook; Chart Design > Edit Data opens it and the chart redraws from those cells.

Chart Design > Switch Row/Column transposes series and categories without editing the worksheet.

A combo chart mixes chart types (for example column plus line); checking Secondary Axis plots one series on a separate right-hand value scale.

In the SmartArt Text Pane, Tab demotes and Shift+Tab promotes a bullet, and the graphic re-lays out automatically.

SmartArt Design > Convert to Shapes creates ordinary shapes; pressing Ungroup twice exposes each shape and text box for individual formatting.

Insert > 3D Models rotates with the center handle and uses 3D Model Views; the Turntable and Swing animations spin the model in a show.

Video playback options include Start (Automatically, When Clicked, In Click Sequence), Trim Video, Fade In/Out, Loop until Stopped, and Poster Frame.

File > Info > Compress Media shrinks file size by lowering video quality to Full HD, HD, or Standard.

A transition controls how a slide enters during a show; an animation controls how an individual object behaves on a slide.

The Transitions tab sets Effect Options, Duration, and advance on mouse click versus After a specified time; Apply To All copies the settings to every slide.

Morph animates objects between two slides that share them, matching shapes by name in the Selection Pane for accurate movement.

Animation categories are Entrance, Emphasis, Exit, and Motion Paths; Add Animation stacks a second effect on the same object.

Start settings are On Click, With Previous, and After Previous; Delay inserts a pause before the effect begins.

The Animation Pane reorders effects by dragging, sets timings, and opens Effect Options for each entry.

Animation Pane > Trigger > On Click of starts an effect when a specified object is clicked rather than on a slide click.

Animation Painter copies all animations from one object to another; double-click the tool to paint several objects until Escape.

Motion Paths can use a drawn Custom Path, and Reverse Path Direction or Edit Points refine the route.