This course walks you through, step-by-step, all the processes and features to create and present a professional presentation with confidence.

What will you learn in this course?

• Navigating the PowerPoint screen, tabs, and contextual tabs
• Customizing the quick access toolbar
• Creating a new presentation from various types of templates - blank, Microsoft, and personal
• Printing presentations, including notes and handouts
• Saving presentations, including embedding fonts and removing metadata
• Exporting presentations, including

1. Exporting as PDF
2. Packaging for CD
3. Creating video
4. Creating custom word handouts
5. Changing file type

• Working with slide master, including

1. Adding themes, backgrounds, fonts
2. Working with placeholders
3. Adding and manipulating page numbers and footers
4. Saving templates
5. Pinning templates to the taskbar

• Inserting slides from

1. Blank slides
2. Another presentation
3. Word outline

• Moving slides
• Deleting slides
• Adding and manipulating the following content

1. Text
2. Pictures
3. Videos
4. Charts
5. SmartArt

• Creating custom bullets, including

1. Bullet size
2. Bullet color
3. Customizing with another symbol
4. Customizing with a picture

• Working with animation, including

1. Applying
2. Triggering
3. Setting play order

• Working with motion path animation, including

1. Adding a motion path to an object
2. Editing a motion path
3. Deleting a motion path
4. Using advanced motion paths

• Working with transitions, including

1. Adding
2. Setting options
3. Setting timings
4. Removing

• Working with speaker notes, including

1. Creating
2. Printing
3. Using the presenter view

• Creating a self-running presentation, including

1. Setting up
2. Recording
3. Previewing

The lessons include step-by-step instructions and sample presentations and files so you can follow along. The class is structured so that each module builds upon the previous module until, upon completion, you have a sample presentation for recording.

Who should take this course?

• This PowerPoint course is meant for users who are not comfortable working with PowerPoint.
• It is also ideal for those users looking to add to their PowerPoint skillset. If you wish to follow along with the various lessons, please make sure you download the sample documents and files.