Course Overview

The PowerPoint Essentials course is aimed at those who want to be able to produce an effective, but simple PowerPoint presentation.

Detailed Course Content

Create a PowerPoint Presentation

  • Create a presentation from the Start Menu
  • Create a presentation from Start Screen
  • Create new presentation from PowerPoint

Save a PowerPoint Presentation

  • Save previously unsaved presentation
  • Save previously saved presentation
  • Save a presentation as a PDF document
  • Create a copy of your presentation
  • Pin a presentation to recent file list

Close & Open Presentations

  • Close a presentation
  • Close multiple presentations
  • Open presentation from PowerPoint
  • Open presentation from File Explorer
  • Open a recent presentation

Change PowerPoint Views

  • Use the Zoom Slider
  • Notes View
  • Normal View
  • Outline View
  • Slide Sorter View

Enter Text into a Slide

  • Add text in placeholders
  • Add text using the Outline View

Adding Slides

  • Insert a new slide
  • Copy a slide
  • Change slide layout

Use Find and Replace

  • Find text in current presentation
  • Replace text in current presentation

Bullet Points and Numbers

  • Apply a bullet point
  • Change bullet point style
  • Add sub bullet points
  • Apply numbering
  • Change numbering style

Proof your Document

  • Set dictionary language
  • Perform a spelling check
  • Use the thesaurus

PowerPoint Designs

  • Select a theme
  • Select a theme variant
  • Select colour variant
  • Select font variant
  • Select effect variant
  • Change slide size
  • Apply a slide background

Add Pictures & Shapes to a Slide

  • Insert a picture or shape
  • Resize a picture or shape
  • Move a picture or shape
  • Rotate a picture or shape
  • Select a picture or shape style

Add Online Pictures

  • Search for online pictures
  • Insert online pictures

Add a Table to a Slide

  • Insert a table
  • Add text to a table
  • Insert rows and columns
  • Delete rows and columns
  • Merge cells

Format Tables

  • Select a table style
  • Change border colour and style
  • Remove borders
  • Shade cells

Create a Drawing on a slide

  • Insert shapes
  • Align shapes
  • Space shapes evenly
  • Group shapes

Add a SmartArt Diagram to a Slide

  • Insert a flowchart diagram
  • Edit a flowchart diagram
  • Insert an organisation chart
  • Edit an organisation chart
  • Other SmartArt diagrams

Add a Chart to a Slide

  • Insert a chart
  • Edit chart data with Excel
  • Format a chart

Animate your Presentation

  • Animation types
  • Apply animation to a placeholder
  • Apply animation to specific text
  • Apply animation to a picture
  • Change animation speed
  • Change animation delay
  • Review your animations

Insert Media Objects

  • Insert an audio object
  • Insert a video object
  • Insert a screen recording
  • Edit a media object

Use Action Buttons

  • Insert a navigation button
  • Other action button
  • Create a custom action button

Advanced Animation

  • Apply animation to SmartArt
  • Use Motion Path animation
  • Change animation speed
  • Change animation delay
  • Animation effect options

Hyperlinks

  • Create a hyperlink to a slide
  • Create a hyperlink to external file
  • Create a hyperlink to a web page

Slide Transition

  • View slide transitions
  • elect a slide transition
  • Apply transition to all slides

Slide Show Navigation

  • View your presentation
  • Move to next slide
  • Go to another slide
  • Exit presentation view

Slide Show Advanced Features

  • Presentation navigation options
  • Hide slides
  • Highlight text during presentation
  • Draw / Write on slides during presentation
  • Save text / drawings to presentation
  • Set slide show timing
  • Automating and looping a presentation
  • Monitor settings

Slide Masters

  • View slide masters
  • Modify master font
  • Modify master bullet points
  • Add an object to all slides
  • Insert headers and footers
  • Customise slide layouts
  • Create a new slide layout

Handout Masters

  • View handout masters
  • Change page orientation
  • Set number of slides per page
  • Insert headers and footers

Notes Master

  • View notes masters
  • Change page orientation
  • Insert headers and footers

Templates

  • Create a PowerPoint template
  • Save a template
  • Use a PowerPoint template

Printing

  • Print a single slide
  • Print one slide on each page
  • Print multiple slides on each page
  • Print handouts

Printable Course Information
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Pre-requisites

  • Basic computer experience, including keyboard and mouse skills
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Windows

If you are not familiar with using a computer or Microsoft Windows, the course Introduction to computers, will give you the skills to take this PowerPoint course.