Microsoft Office Specialist: PowerPoint Associate (PowerPoint and PowerPoint 2019) — Lesson 2: Text, Shapes, Images, and Media

Learning Objectives

• Format text, lists, WordArt, shapes, and grouped objects
• Insert, crop, adjust, arrange, and compress images
• Add and configure audio, video, screen recordings, and captions

Detailed Topics

• Format text: Format text, lists, WordArt, shapes, and grouped objects
• Insert: Insert, crop, adjust, arrange, and compress images
• Add and configure audio: Add and configure audio, video, screen recordings, and captions

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Build a branded slide sequence using text, visual, and media objects.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Text, Shapes, Images, and Media in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.