Corporate Microsoft Powerpoint Training Course

1. Creating a presentation

2. Choosing a template/theme

3. Changing the template/theme

4. Adding slides & typing in content 

1. Choosing a slide layout

2. Changing the slide layout

1. Adding text

2. Bulleted vs numbered lists

3. Adding & editing text with outline view

4. Outline view keystrokes

1. Placing pictures into placeholders cropping photos

2. Sizing graphics

3. Fixing stretched/squished photos where to get photos

4. Crop to shape & aspect ratio

1. Picture adjustments (such as converting to black & white)

2. Picture border & effects

1. Layered object vs placeholder content

2. Aligning

3. Evenly distributing

4. Grouping

5. Reordering layered objects

1. Creating SmartArt

2. Adding text

3. Layouts, styles, & shapes

4. Converting text into SmartArt

5. SmartArt with picture placeholders

1. Adding shapes

2. Styling shapes

3. Adding text to shapes

4. Resizing, moving, & rotating shapes

5. Connector lines

6. Text boxes

1. Creating tables in PowerPoint

2. Typing in table data

3. Designing tables

4. Table layout

5. Sizing tables & columns/rows

6. Alignment & spacing in a table

7. Adding or removing rows/columns

8. Merging cells

1. Importing a chart from Excel

2. Updating the chart data when the Excel file changes

1. Adding slide transitions

2. Transition effect options & duration

1. Spell check

2. Slide sorter view

1. Starting & stopping a slideshow

2. Ways to navigate slide shows

3. Tools to use when presenting

4. Presenter notes

5. Presenter view

6. Presenting in Microsoft Teams (PowerPoint Live)

7. Presenter notes in Zoom

1. Choosing what will go on the printed page

1. Why make a PDF?

2. Saving a PDF & setting options

1. Using the slide master

2. The slide master vs slide layouts

1. Color: Best practices

2. Creating a color theme

1. Fonts: Best practices

2. Creating a font theme

3. Using non-standard fonts

1. Changing an individual slide’s background

2. Changing slide backgrounds in the slide master

1. Line spacing options

2. Styling text & lists

1. Customizing slide layouts

2. Adding a logo to every slide

3. Creating & deleting slide layouts

1. Adding header & footer content

2. Header & footer placeholders on the slide master

1. Creating a custom PowerPoint theme

2. Setting the default theme

1. Transitions vs animations

2. Animating bullet points

3. Animating objects

4. Entrance, emphasis, & exit animations

5. Multiple animations on one object

6. Ordering multiple animations

1. Animating a bar chart

2. Animating a line chart

1. Adding online videos (like YouTube videos)

2. Adding video files

1. Copying/pasting charts from Excel

2. Updating the chart data

3. Formatting charts & chart elements

4. Saving a chart template

1. Bringing in a table from Excel with a link

2. Bringing in a table from Excel with no link

1. Linking to a website: Adding a hyperlink

2. Creating an email link

1. What is the quick access toolbar?

2. Customizing the quick access toolbar

1. Managing content with hidden slides

2. Printing with & without hidden slides

3. Saving a PDF with & without hidden slides

1. Creating a custom show

2. Presenting a custom show

3. Printing a custom show

1. Adding comments

2. Replying to & resolving comments

1. Using sections to group content in large presentations