Microsoft PowerPoint Training Courses Overview

PowerPoint Foundation

This session is aimed at those with limited experience of PowerPoint, but with general experience of MS Office.

  • Exploring the PowerPoint ribbon menus
  • Working with PowerPoint views: normal, outline, slide sorter, reading view
  • Understanding slide content types and their uses
    • Title slides
    • Content slides
  • Creating a simple text slide
  • Formatting slides
    • Formatting text size, colour & styles
    • Formatting slide backgrounds
  • Deleting and reordering slides
  • Creating slide notes
  • Adding headers & footers

PowerPoint Intermediate

This session is aimed at those already using PowerPoint and can create basic slide presentations.

  • Working with the PowerPoint Slide Master
    • Understanding slide masters
    • Creating custom slide masters
    • Styling presentations using the slide master
  • Inserting images
    • Adding photos & resizing
    • Adding graphic artwork, logos etc.
  • Adding slide transitions
    • Understanding transition types & their application
    • Changing animation effects
  • Creating bullet point animations
    • Animation uses and application
    • Adding animations to text / bullet points
    • Changing animation effects

PowerPoint Advanced

This session is aimed at those with good experience of PowerPoint and wish to utilise the more advanced features of the application.

  • Adding multimedia
    • Inserting videos from files
    • Linking to online content
    • Adding sound files
  • Displaying information with SmartArt
    • Exploring SmartArt types
    • Applying and editing SmartArt
  • Linking Excel spreadsheet data
    • Embedding spreadsheets
    • Updating data dynamically
  • Working with graphs & charts
    • Creating charts in PowerPoint
  • Embedding linked charts from Excel spreadsheets