PowerPoint Training – Learn PowerPoint Presentations

Learn PowerPoint to create engaging PowerPoint presentations in 2022. PowerPoint tutorials, quizzes, and exercises.

Created by: Andrew Williams
Wordpress, SEO & Self-Publishing Expert, teacher and author

What Will I Learn?

• How to use PowerPoint effectively.
• How to navigate around the PowerPoint interface.
• The elements of good design, and how to incorporate these into your slideshows.
• What makes a slide show boring, and how to avoid these pitfalls.
• How to use the Slide Masters tool. You'll learn how to modify an existing slide master, or create your own.
• Inserting, aligning, z-order, and grouping elements on slides
• How to use the selection pane.
• Adding and manipulating text.
• Adding and manipulating shapes, including the options for merging shapes.
• The Shape Format panel for fine control over your objects.
• How to use the Format Painter to speed up slide development.
• Adding and manipulating pictures, icons and vectors.
• How you can use SmartArt as a head start for your design, and to make it a little more interesting visually.
• Adding charts and configuring them to show only the elements of those charts you need.
• Handling, editing and creating chart data, both within PowerPoint and using Excel.
• Adding and manipulating tables of data.
• Adding audio and video to your slides.
• Using transitions, including timing.
• Using animations (and timing) strategically to draw the eye of your audience.
• Using the animation pane.
• Using the animation painter tool.
• Stacking animations so that an object can have more than one.
• Setting up the slideshow and running it.
• Presenter View - the best way to present your slideshow using two monitors.
• Printing stuff, including handouts for your audience.

Requirements

• This course uses PowerPoint from Office 365. You can use older versions of PowerPoint, but the interface will look a little different, and not all of the features may be available in older versions.

Target audience

• Anyone that wants to learn how to use PowerPoint to create entertaining, educational, and sometimes fun, presentations.
• Anyone that wants to get away from creating boring presentations that put their audience to sleep.
• Lecturers and teachers that want to master PowerPoint for their classroom or online learning environment.