Get started in PowerPoint with this hands-on training. Learn the fundamentals of creating dynamic presentations with step-by-step exercises.
In this beginner PowerPoint course, you'll create and run dynamic presentations; add images, shapes, animations, and layered objects; create tables and charts; prepare the slideshow for a presentation.
This class includes our revolutionary PowerPoint video suite with several hours of premium content. Review the course materials with high-quality video with lifetime access on desktop, tablet or mobile, a $95 value, included free with the course.
What You’ll Learn at a Glance
- Create presentations using the Outline View
- Add images, SmartArt, and shapes
- Work with layered objects
- Insert tables, charts, and animations
- Run a presentation in Presenter View
Course Syllabus
- Introduction
- User Interface
- File Management
- Creating Presentation
- Adding Text Using Outline View
- Adding Slides
- Images
- Getting Images
- Placing Images
- Adjusting/Styling Images
- SmartArt
- Building Diagrams
- Styling Diagrams
- Converting Bullet Lists to SmartArt
- Shapes
- Creating Shapes
- Styling Shapes
- Adding Text to Shapes
- Adjusting Shapes
- Text Boxes
- Connectors
- Layered Objects
- Aligning
- Distributing
- Grouping
- Tables
- Creating Tables
- Designing Tables
- Charts
- Creating Charts
- Designing Charts
- Saving Chart Templates
- Proofing and Editing
- Spell Check
- Using Slide Sorter View
- Printing
- Animation
- Slide Transitions
- Slide Animations
- Running a Presentation
- Starting and Stopping a Presentation
- Presenting to an Audience
- Navigating
- Annotating
- Using Speaker Notes
- Using Presenter View
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