Build a strong foundation in Microsoft PowerPoint with this beginner-friendly course. You'll learn to create polished presentations using text, images, shapes, transitions, and layered objects, and you'll get comfortable working with tables and charts to give your slides a professional finish.
Whether you're brand new to PowerPoint or just want to sharpen your existing skills, this course gives you a practical toolkit of techniques to work smarter and more efficiently. You'll also get lifetime access to a custom video suite you can revisit whenever you need a refresher, available on desktop, tablet, or mobile.
What You Will Learn
- Build presentations from templates and tailor layouts, themes, and content structure to fit your needs
- Edit text, bullets, and numbered lists using Outline View and built-in formatting tools
- Add and enhance photos, SmartArt, and shapes with effects, cropping, and alignment options
- Create and format tables, connect shapes with lines, and pull in Excel charts to display your data
- Apply transitions, manage presenter notes, and use tools designed for both live and virtual presentations
- Save, print, and export your work to PDF with options suited for professional use
Course Outline
Creating New Presentations
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Creating a Presentation
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Choosing a Template/Theme
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Changing the Template/Theme
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Adding Slides & Typing in Content
Slide Layouts
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Choosing a Slide Layout
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Changing the Slide Layout
Adding Text & Outline View
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Adding Text
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Bulleted vs Numbered Lists
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Adding & Editing Text with Outline View
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Outline View Keystrokes
Pictures & Graphics
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Placing Pictures into Placeholders
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Cropping Photos
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Sizing Graphics
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Fixing Stretched/Squished Photos
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Where to Get Photos
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Crop to Shape & Aspect Ratio
Adjusting Photos & Graphics
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Picture Adjustments (such as converting to Black & White)
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Picture Border & Effects
Layered Objects
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Layered Object vs Placeholder Content
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Aligning
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Evenly Distributing
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Grouping
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Reordering Layered Objects
SmartArt
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Creating SmartArt
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Adding Text
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Layouts, Styles, & Shapes
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Converting Text into SmartArt
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SmartArt with Picture Placeholders
Shapes & Lines
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Adding Shapes
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Styling Shapes
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Adding Text to Shapes
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Resizing, Moving, & Rotating Shapes
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Connector Lines
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Text Boxes
Tables
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Creating Tables in PowerPoint
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Typing in Table Data
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Designing Tables
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Table Layout
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Sizing Tables & Columns/Rows
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Alignment & Spacing In a Table
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Adding or Removing Rows/Columns
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Merging Cells
Copying & Pasting Charts from Excel
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Importing a Chart from Excel
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Updating the Chart Data when the Excel File Changes
Transitions
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Adding Slide Transitions
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Transition Effect Options & Duration
Proofing & Editing
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Spell Check
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Slide Sorter View
Running a Presentation
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Starting & Stopping a Slide Show
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Ways to Navigate Slide Shows
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Tools to Use When Presenting
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Presenter Notes
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Presenter View
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Presenting in Microsoft Teams (PowerPoint Live)
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Presenter Notes in Zoom
Printing
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Choosing What Will Go On the Printed Page
Saving a PDF
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Why Make a PDF?
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Saving a PDF & Setting Options
This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
